Still, Jennie did try, since you can’t keep farm animals on your Seattle lot unless it’s 20,000 square feet or larger —and who has nearly half an acre in the city?… A distant neighbor who had never seen the goats overheard her talking about them at a party —and turned her in. When the inspector told her she couldn’t keep her goats, Jennie approached city councilmember Richard Conlin and asked whether he could help her persuade the city’s Department of Planning and Development to allow her to keep the goats.
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Digest - Farm & Rural: Wheat bottleneck, ghost towns and boomtowns
A special Farm and Rural Digest contributed by the Center for Rural Affairs.
Putting up with friends
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Yesterday was Labor Day, and Marc, Rachel, and I stocked up like locavorean squirrels for the winter. Well, that’s what I thought the plan was. But 8 hours, 50 pounds of tomatoes, 15 […]
Why I love labor
It’s Labor Day, the day we pay homage to the folks who brought us the weekend (among many other things). It’s a fitting moment to show some love for the labor movement, which has seen union membership decline from a high of nearly 33% of the U.S. workforce in the 1950s to a mere 12.5% […]
The quest for real food in Sydney
It looks as if someone has thrown an enormous bowl of black bean soup at the facade of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art and it’s dripped into the shape of that iconic portrait of Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda in 1960.
"Che (Sopa de Frijoles negros)" by Vik Muniz is the poster for an exhibition […]
Digest: Breastfeeding campaign exposé, pet food history lesson, SciAm food issue
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Time to put up or shut up
So, Marc aka Mental Masala and I and our friend Rachel (the Mistress of Club Grub here in the East Bay) are getting ready for canning 50 pounds of Lucero’s San Marzano and Early Girl tomatoes tomorrow, along with dill pickles, dilly beans, and bread-and-butter pickles. Seems like the perfect Labor Day activity, and I’m […]
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