archive for June 30th, 2006

Celebrating Farmer Joe’s arrival

by Corn Maven @ Friday, June 30th, 2006.

Last Saturday was like a national holiday for my up-and-coming Oakland neighborhood, the Dimond district — or, as the SF Chronicle noted this week, our “decidedly unglamorous” ‘hood. Well, all of us unglamorous folk turned out in large numbers to celebrate the long-awaited opening of Farmer Joe’s Marketplace — a locally owned grocery store […]

Digest: East Coast rains decimate farms, Daryl Hannah, Southern organic farms, virtual farmer’s markets, and grass fed beef

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Friday, June 30th, 2006.

Here is what we are reading as we mourn Argentina’s loss to Germany:
Washington Post: Heavy rains and flood deliver terrible blow to Eastern Shore farmers’ livelihoods, including drowning tens of thousands of chickens in closed coops. (DQ editorializing: Why didn’t they open the doors, I wonder? They would have floated….I find this unbearably sad.)
People magazine: […]

Get on your mucking boots: Fordhall Farm Saved!

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Friday, June 30th, 2006.

Fordhall Community Land Initiative announced their success in raising enough funds to buy the farm and set it aside for use as an organic farm, wildlife preserve, and community resource. As noted earlier in the week, the Fordhall is a landmark British organic farm whose tenants needed £800,000 to buy the land and save […]

Goooaaaalllll: Steak and chimichurri for the Argentines

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Friday, June 30th, 2006.

It’s Saturday and the Butter Bitch and I are preparing to do something slightly out of character: Watch sports, drink Argentinean wine and eat steak from Skagit River Ranch.
I occasionally watch sports, mostly playoffs and championships, while the Butter Bitch shows little interest and routinely confuses teams. This year, she revealed a strong […]

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