Grace: Bread of the Hour, Wine of the Year, Friends of a Life

Merry Christmas!

Leaders Making Change - Consistency!

Consistency over 100 days...

Organic Pest Control

 Alyssum lures bugs AWAY

California Awards $4m to Oakland’s City Slickers Farms

urbanfarmhub.org - Interesting blog on lots of urban ag issues.

Foodie Kids - YAY!

Foodie Kids

Nature as Artist

Toad (?) Lily From Dianne

Other folks' great paper art

http://www.recyclart.org/2010/10/paper-works-by-nick-georgiou/

Good Golly Farm wins Sac Magazine Best Retreat 2010!

Would love to see you at the party!

Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes - everywhere...

Paper dresses of yore, and the neo-revision... From 4 - 40-something.

Iris in October, have I moved to another hemisphere?!

Sacto Restaurants Cooperate

http://m.sacbee.com/sacramento/db_106149/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=eHMPDcbi&detailindex=0&pn=0&ps=2&full=true#display

Sock Art!

This rose started as a stick from my neighbor!

Pleated paper skirt - For Neo-Crocker Opening

This blue and yellow together is a riot!

Swan Scythe Press Author Party

close up of purse weave, with laminate

And, now I'm experimenting on 3-D...

Calorie Free Cakes! Original 2-D Collages

Many of you are already familiar with my Cake Collages...

My Favorite BIRTHDAY cake! 
From my Mom (of course)
 who used to babysit for Mrs. Harwood, who made this cake.

and, Debby's cake-flowers.

These Hydrangeas came from my Aunt's yard in Oregon, planted there by her from cuttings from my grandma's plants in Santa Barbara.

In my Aunt's yard in Oregon, they come out naturally blue, in my yard, naturally more pink, but I enrich to the bluer side and love this blue-purple combo.

Cabin 6 - Studio for Let

Cabin 6 is raw wood inside, and tucked under a tree by the pond, for those who get stoked by nature right at home.

July Abundance - Blackberries

Pie anyone?  

Teen farmer

: Food - A Michigan Teen Farms Her Backyard - NYTimes.com

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Salem Art Fair

Cool purses from book and game boards...

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I thought of a new term today, how many pennies do I get when Obama says it?!

Afganiscam

Sacto Restaurants Make Compost!

: Rick Kushman: Going green unites Sacramento restaurant community - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee

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2% of our food grown locally!

Henry's Market for Local Foods

Great Bowls made out of Vintage Records

Watch out they are really stinky when melting, probably BAD! chemicals.  I have an outdoor stove/oven -- for making soaps, etc. but this was still bad.

SLUG - How Cute/Gross is That!?

Sacramento League of Urban Gardeners:  working to bring equality through access to healthy foods.   That's thinking big picture!  In Sacramento News and Review, 4/29/10  Local Eats, Low Incomes

Fundraising Seminar w/ Kim Klein

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The Shasta Daisies are as tall as I, and I'm no squirt!

Farm to School in Sacto!

Here's a website I think you'll like: Farm-to-school project gets tons of strawberries to children - Gardening - sacbee.com

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Great History of Sacramento Garden, Food and Community

Great Article by Bill Maynard, in Edible Sacramento, Spring 2010 on Sacramento's support of Garden, Food and Community.  Bill is also the local contact for ACGA - American Community Gardening Association, check out their Annual Conference in Atlanta next month.

Sacramento's Own Oak Park Crop Swap

Story about Crop Swaps in the News and Review

Oak Park's Crop Swap Info.  Want o to do one in YOUR neighborhood?

Still Time for Am. Community Gardener Annual Meeting!

Plan now to attend the 2010 31st Annual Conference of the ACGA, ‘A Holistic Approach To Building Sustainable and Healthy Communities Through Gardening: The Choice Is Yours.‘ Read more about the conference.

Crop Swap

A Sacramento writer discusses Crop Swap(s)

"Sponsored" Plantings - Sustaining the Community

One of the Artists-in-Residence this season shared with me some thoughts about perpetuating the bounty of the garden beyond this year and beyond that. Sounds good to me, here's the thought:

He wants to "sponsor" the planting of 10 strawberry plants and the reasonable cost of their annual care -- about $50 -- plants that will produce for familes to come; in exchange for 10 baskets of strawberries as his sustenence-investment "interest". Something between Heifer International and carbon credits!

I love the idea of planting the seeds and food of the future, and the sense of community our shared "investment" will drive. And, on a less grand scale, I like it that you folks, to some degree, could focus in on foods you want but can't grow/get and I'd get to try some thing I wouldn't already have tried.

Let me know what your interested in seeing planted; on your behalf, for many.

Local, Local Foods Advocate

Here's a website I think you'll like: Sacramento farm-to-table advocate raises food for thought - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee

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Thinking about Chemicals and Health

I don't want to be a freak about WHAT it is that will kill me/us -- certainly SOMETHING will, but the more I learn about especially the fast growing area of auto-immune illnesses, the more I balk at chemicals... Just 'cause your paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...

New York Times

Every Moment is a Memory in the Making - you just never know WHEN

The 10th Annual Spring Party was a wonderful time of re-connection.

And, as always, tn
he perspective shift: fake cakes or real ones ...

Interesting Feedback I've received on Creating and Environment for Cerativity...

Some comments on setting the scene for creativity: I welcome your thoughts on how to open the creative flow...

No mirrors - especially not want to look at "self".

Foot stools - Something about raising the feet allows the thoughts to flow.

How Fast They Come & Go

I got a time-lapse camera for the garden... This iris - an amazing yellow - opened over 6 hours, from tight bud to done.

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