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Endangered, eh? Canada Scientists Confirm Bluefin Tuna Are in Deep Trouble

By • on May 21, 2011

By Catherine Kilduff, Center for Biological Diversity * Updated on June 2, 2011 by Marc R.* It’s official: We really are fishing to extinction a fish

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On the trademarking of ‘urban homesteading’: The Original Best Most Complete Post on the Subject™

By • on February 23, 2011

By Mat Rogers, Director of Agrariana Language and terminology are an integral part of the food movement.

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Jimmy Stewart, cults, and a lot of broken glass: Remembering Straus Family Creamery’s opening day

By • on February 15, 2011

By Michael Straus Pictures from opening night at Straus Family Creamery, February 4, 1994. (That's me with the goatee.) Straus Family Creamery recently

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Want to grow food on City of Oakland land? Here’s how

By • on July 21, 2010

By Stephanie Paige Ogburn We’ve all seen it: the vacant lot down the street that gets full sun, or the

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U-Pick, u-pack, u-preserve cherry madness

By • on July 16, 2010

By Mat Rogers Recently my wife and I took a day trip to the cherry

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Unlocking Genetic Diversity with the Backyard Seed Vault Project

By • on April 27, 2010

By Mat Rogers The 1979 children’s book Ox-Cart Man describes a colonial

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The water wars: California’s salmon vs. agribiz interests

By • on March 15, 2010

By Paul Johnson Chinook salmon fishing has been scaled way back in

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