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Seeds are in, and up!
The seed lotto this year was a score, with just a couple minor back orders I won’t need yet anyway. Not too surprising as I got my order to Fedco a few days before they started shipping orders out. This is the earliest I’ve ever gotten a seed order in, but I’ve never felt such urgency to turn some of that green paper that circulates into enough seeds to feed a decent sized neighborhood. Each … Read entire article »
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2012 – Year of the Seed!
The energies of the new year have landed with a rush and inspired some new projects for … Read more »
Meet Roger Doiron…
I have followed Roger Doiron and his organization, Kitchen Gardens International, for years. Roger totally gets it … Read more »
An act of solidarity
November 2, 2011 seems like an auspicious date to launch the new Calliopez Table blog. Today in … Read more »
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2012 - Year of the Seed!
The energies of the new year have landed with a rush and inspired some new projects for … Read more »
An act of solidarity
November 2, 2011 seems like an auspicious date to launch the new Calliopez Table blog. Today in … Read more »
Give the gift of food
Greetings of the Season! How could I resist making my own plea for your dollars at holiday time? … Read more »
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2012 – Year of the Seed!
The energies of the new year have landed with a rush and inspired some new projects for Calliopez Table. Leading off, and so apropos for this time of year, The Million Seeds Project. It will be something along the lines of a movable seed bank with an education component too, all in the hopes of growing some seed growers as … Read entire article »
Give the gift of food
Greetings of the Season! How could I resist making my own plea for your dollars at holiday time? Smile Actually I don’t need your money; but a farmer that lives and farms near you does. As hard as those farmers will work in the coming year to grow the healthiest food they know how, getting some income at this time of year … Read entire article »
Miss Lili keepin’ it real
An unexpected package at my door last week revealed little treasures I’d left behind in storage when I left Oregon, and also a jar of Miss Lili’s Wooly Bullets Raspberry Jam, vintage 2011. It was like a warm hug from home. Miss Lili’s jam comes from one particular Raspberry bush that lives in a backyard in Portland where I grew … Read entire article »
It starts with Love
The basis of our health comes from inside of us; from our well-being. Food, medicine, nor much else will help us maintain our health if our spirit is not willing. The divisiveness and disconnection from each other our dominant culture seems to conspire to create is not our natural state. It is why destructive behaviors, consumerism, and disease such as … Read entire article »
Meet Roger Doiron…
I have followed Roger Doiron and his organization, Kitchen Gardens International, for years. Roger totally gets it about our food. He’s chill, he’s articulate, and he has his finger on the pulse of food in our world and what we need to be doing about it. Here he is speaking at a TED Talk, and I can think of no finer … Read entire article »
An act of solidarity
November 2, 2011 seems like an auspicious date to launch the new Calliopez Table blog. Today in Oakland and beyond many will be participating in a general strike to speak out against economic inequality and police brutality. It will be exciting to see how the day’s events will unfold. It was marching with the Occupy movement in San Francisco in September … Read entire article »