Back in college I took a course that touched just a little bit on permaculture. It took place at the Cal Poly Organic Farm where biointensive and permaculture concepts are explored. Permaculture is such a broad topic that it was barely touched upon but it did peak my interest. The problem, though, was that this…
Our Just Food event went really well. The speakers were fantastic, the food was wonderful and the movie was great. My good friend, Esperanza, was one of the speakers. Her talk was about her life and the struggles she faced growing up and then her discovery that she could connect with her ancestors through producing…
This past weekend we attended an event at the Acta Non Verba Urban Farm. Kelly Carlisle, who runs it asked us if we could bring some of our chickens and we happily obliged. There was a woman that taught a cooking demonstration about how to make Sweet Potato Butter that was so very delicious Tom couldn’t…
With a handful of other people, Tom and I are putting together the largest event we’ve ever planned for tomorrow – the Just Food – Celebrating Locally Grown event. We will be featuring a panel of speakers and then showing the movie FRESH. The speakers include Lucy Thairu, assistant professor at Touro University who will…
Last night Tom, Paul and I went to a screening for the Greenhorns movie, a documentary about new young farmers. It was a decent flick overall but I felt that it probably would have been better if the movie had focused on fewer farmers and told more of their story rather than show just a…
I’ve been pretty hush hush about what our plans will be in the future. Well the future is coming quick and it’s time to spill the beans I suppose because things are about to get C-R-A-Z-Y. Urban farming in our city is great if you’re doing it for your family but we still don’t have…
While I was putting together the presentation for the chicken class I taught this past week I spent a large amount of time going through pictures we’ve taken over the last several years. Boy do I need to reorganize them! But that’s besides the point. One of the things I found so interesting was seeing…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
