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It’s not quite planting weather yet in most of the country, but in four to six weeks, it most certainly will be. And, thanks to a Twitter message from Dina of Nutritious Feast, I learned today that Earthbound Farm Organic is giving away free seed packets to anyone who provides them a modicum of marketing [...]

I signed into Flickr at one point yesterday only to see a familiar face next to my stream of latest activity: Joe Ades, who sold vegetable peelers at the Union Square Greenmarket, died this week at the age of 75. I only saw him once, during a 2007 visit to New York City to visit [...]

This week’s edition of SFWeekly, one of the Bay Area’s indy papers, features their 2009 resolutions guide. The guide offers all kinds of ways to live more cheaply in this down economy, and while some of those suggestions are, of course, targeted pretty locally, there are some great ideas that are relevant no matter what [...]

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m a big fan of Amy Stewart, who blogs at Dirt and Garden Rant, and who writes great books about the wild, wonderful world of plants. So, it should come as no surprise that I was delighted to learn that her next book, Wicked Plants: A Book [...]

“So here’s the thing,” I said to a friend over the weekend. “One of the things I have never been good at is the issue of watering the plants.” “Isn’t watering kind of important?” he asked. “It is, and that’s something I worry about here. There’s no water,” I said. “So it’s going to be [...]

I’ve been playing fast and loose with Christmas this year, acting as if it wasn’t actually coming, that the goose wasn’t actually getting fat, and that the old man did not, indeed, have his hat out for a penny. And so, this means that, a week before the holiday, I have just now gotten around [...]

I go through phases with my Netflix queue. Every now and then, I roll through an entire season of a TV show—How I Met Your Mother, Heroes, Freaks And Geeks, The L Word—in as fell of a swoop as I can. Other times I get into a foreign film kind of mood, and everything that [...]

Last week, Tyson Foods delivered its promised food donation to the San Francisco Food Bank. A huge thank you to all of you who went over and posted a comment to help maximize that donation — your work did, indeed, pay off. Tyson has also posted a video with Amy Sherman of Cooking with Amy [...]

Finally, FINALLY, someone has found my blog by searching for “tomato porn.” My work is done here.

It occurred to me the other day that I had not, in fact, checked back in on the story of the girls in Clayton, Calif., who were trying to get the city council to allow them to continue selling surplus veggies from their home garden. Turns out the girls won their fight! The San Jose [...]