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Tomatoes galore

by Corn Maven @ Friday, August 11th, 2006.

Last Saturday I began harvesting tomatoes from my garden in earnest. All of a sudden — at least it seemed to me — they were ready to be picked, plucked.
A few days earlier, I had spied a couple ripe tomatoes lying on the ground beside the momma plant. Then I noticed some Sun Gold cherry […]

Calling all Californians to raise their voice

by Corn Maven @ Sunday, August 6th, 2006.

If you care, like I do, that local control of our seed and plant heritage is maintained and not given away to support corporate self interest, please consider contacting your local state Senator and House Assembly members and request that they oppose the California Preemption Bill (SB 1056). Contact them on Tuesday, August 8th — […]

Digest: Toxin-free tilapia, sexy food fashion statements, plus irradiated pineapple for the people

by Corn Maven @ Friday, July 28th, 2006.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: A Seattle-based firm is marketing what it calls toxin-free tilapia grown in fresh water ponds in China. The upside of their approach is that they place fewer fish in the ponds, so the fish are healthier and don’t require antibiotics. (Stress from crowding weakens animal immune systems, requiring the use of antibiotics.) […]

Nurturing community: one bite at a time

by Corn Maven @ Friday, July 28th, 2006.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
– Virginia Woolf
Recently, our home became a bed-and-breakfast of sorts. First, three weeks ago, our friend Susana, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, arrived to stay with us. Then, more than a week ago, Mary Alice, from Michigan, and then last Wednesday, Kitty from […]

Iowa: land of cheese and wine

by Corn Maven @ Friday, July 21st, 2006.

I’m back from my week-long trip to Iowa, to visit family, friends, and the family farm — and to get myself away from my computer and all of the drudgery (sometimes) of too much freelance work. All work and no play make Jane a very dull girl, after all.
Most of my reflections need to simmer […]

Garden developments

by Corn Maven @ Friday, July 7th, 2006.

I thought it was about time to give an update on how my organic garden is progressing this summer.
My yellow squash is currently my pride and joy, growing out and up in all four directions. I had no idea it would grow to be so large. The leaves themselves are so beautiful and luscious. They […]

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 […]

Blended love

by Corn Maven @ Friday, June 23rd, 2006.

I’ve fallen in love! I have fallen in love again … with smoothies. Organic, homemade ones, to boot.
It wasn’t love at first sight. No, it actually took a lot of time. Days. Months. OK, maybe years … to get me to see that making a commitment wasn’t really all that hard, in the end.
Let […]

Chick flicks

by Corn Maven @ Monday, June 19th, 2006.

About a month ago, I checked in with my friend’s blog and was delighted by these two mini-videos of her Silkie hen’s newly hatched — and hatching — chicks, or — as I like to call them — “chicklets.” Take a look first at the one from that morning and then the afternoon’s…
And discover […]

We have a right to know

by Corn Maven @ Sunday, June 18th, 2006.

We the people have a right to know where our food comes from — and what’s in it. Now, let’s make sure it’s law. If you agree, please see the Center for Food Safety’s site to sign your name to an online petition.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) recently introduced two bills related to GE […]

Global linkage

by Corn Maven @ Sunday, June 18th, 2006.

I just watched this video and was inspired by the simplicity of its message.
The push here in the U.S. to grow more and more food to feed the poor of the world is thought as such a noble endeavor, and yet I wonder if we would do more good by adjusting our focus — and […]

Garden reverie

by Corn Maven @ Tuesday, May 30th, 2006.

This weekend I decided I needed a break from a particularly long and crazed period of overworking as a freelance graphic designer. As is said, when it rains, it pours — and it’s either feast or famine. So yes, I guess I’m feasting now! (But somehow I am feeling a twinge of famine in some […]

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