Farm to Jar: Live Earth Farm and Happy Girl Kitchen
October 21, 2011
On a recent CUESA farm tour, a group of adventurers got a taste of an integrated local food system by visiting Happy Girl Kitchen and Live Earth Farm. View the slideshow.
October 21, 2011
On a recent CUESA farm tour, a group of adventurers got a taste of an integrated local food system by visiting Happy Girl Kitchen and Live Earth Farm. View the slideshow.
October 21, 2011
Happy Girl Kitchen’s Todd and Jordan Champagne, with their organic pickles, jams, and juices, are restoring the vital role of small canneries in supporting the local food system.
October 14, 2011
Now a permanent fixture at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, Wise Sons serves traditional Jewish deli food made “from scratch and with love.”
October 7, 2011
Cantaloupes have been all over the news. Listeria-contaminated melons from a Colorado farm have sickened and killed people across the nation. Are the ones at the farmers market safe to eat?
September 23, 2011
Take a virtual tour of Catalán Farm and read matriarch María Inés Catalán’s story about her family history, the origins of her farm, and her work in the community.
September 7, 2011
He spent his childhood around fungus and later developed a passion for wild foods. Far West Fungi’s Ian Garrone tells about growing up at the farmers market and running a shop in the Ferry Building.
August 26, 2011
Nobody wants mealy, chemical-laden, tasteless tomatoes grown by slave labor in Florida. But what are the alternatives?
August 19, 2011
Learn about industrial Florida tomato farming in this article based on a panel with Tomatoland author Barry Estabrook and other farm and labor experts.
August 5, 2011
Taking over the farm with her brothers while their parents are in China hasn’t been easy for Lizzy Glashoff. Then again, that’s not why she’s a farmer.
July 22, 2011
Although their parents still work full-time, the Moua children of Chue’s Farm are the backbone of the business. Hear from Tou, one of eleven, about their life on this Fresno-based vegetable farm.
July 16, 2011
We mark Black Agriculture Awareness Week with a look at this small but important population.
July 11, 2011
When they’re not in school, Belle and Vivian Martino are intergral to their family’s stone fruit farm