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Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Back in July, I attended The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival, an event that gave me just the tiniest taste of what Burning Man might be like. In an empty lot in an industrial section of Oakland, a number of artists had installed pieces of varying sizes, all of which featured some form of interaction with [...]

I realize it’s high time to get back to garden blogging, but I’m going to go ahead and admit…my head and heart are still a little bit stuck in Black Rock City, where no plant of the garden variety can live, but where metal flowers bloom from the desert.
I have a story to tell about [...]

National Farmer’s Market Week is August 2-8, a week where even the markets in the harshest zones of the U.S. climate should be bursting with amazing produce. Tomato season’s in full swing, people. Take. Advantage. (And if you don’t like tomatoes, buy some anyway and just mail ‘em to me.)
Over at The Huffington Post, Stacy [...]

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

I’ve been on the road a lot lately, to one place or another, but most of that on-the-roading has been for fun and personal reasons. This? Not a bad thing. (Thank you, United, for your Double EQM promotion.)
Today, I am officially noting for the record that I am in Ocean City, Md., which means I’m [...]

When I was up in Seattle during mid-March, my cousin Mary and I wandered into The Spanish Table, a store that, it turns out, has outposts much more local to me—Berkeley and Mill Valley.
But we were in the original, surrounded by pottery and paella pans and food that made me feel like we had walked [...]

I should have waited until this morning to go to the farmer’s market, but I couldn’t do it. There was a bundle of thyme available at Whole Foods, and I have the Sadie in my sights.
I’m a girl that embraces signs, symbols and all kinds of mysterious stuff. On Saturday night, I took one sip [...]

As I said in yesterday’s post, when I went to college in Staunton, VA, I didn’t spend any time getting to know local food systems, farmers, or artisan producers. But in the ensuing 15 years since graduation, I’ve become more and more interested in eating locally.
This is why, when I walked into Staunton Grocery on [...]

The food memories I have from my four years at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia revolve more around the adventures than the food. For example, mine was literally the first dollar spent in the Taco Bell when it opened in Staunton, and I may very well have skipped class to make that happen. It [...]