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Chef Kim Alter and Haven in Jack London Square
Posted in DIY / Featured / Garden Maven / Good Ideas / Places / San Francisco Bay Area / Videos and Podcasts
Haven started at the Farmers’ Market, like so many great things. Chefs Kim Alter and Daniel Patterson – the man behind Coi – dipped in and out of farmer stalls… Read more»
Bay Area’s best pumpkin patches
Posted in DIY / Garden Maven / Good Ideas / Places / San Francisco Bay Area
I adore autumn. The sunlight becomes more precious, fruits and vegetables are abundant, and I savor those mini-vacations, i.e. trips to the pumpkin patch. I have to find ways to… Read more»
Love Apple Farms and Tomato Eggs
It’s that time of year again when I feel the seasonal push to visit a farm. Not an urban farm, but a bigger, rural one. I love celebrating the fall… Read more»
Radiance Herbs and Homemade Shampoo
Posted in DIY / Garden Maven / Good Ideas / Places / Seattle and Washington
It sometimes forget that I wrote a guidebook to Olympia, Washington. But I did. It isn’t a large capitol city, but a marvelous one to visit. The capitol building is… Read more»
Deciding Oakland’s food policy future
Posted in DIY / Garden Maven / Good Ideas / Places / San Francisco Bay Area
Tonight at the North Oakland Senior Center there will be a public meeting to talk about zoning policies in this city. Think: owning chickens, whether or not you can have… Read more»