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What’s at Your Farmers’ Market This Week?
Our market sleuth, Barbara Kobsar, spotted these beautiful Jacob’s Farm watermelons at the San Ramon Farmers’ Market, so we made this watermelon, onion, and cucumber salad.
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Freedom Farmers' Market Reopens July 17
Celebrate the summer harvest and strengthen our diverse community each Saturday, 9am–2pm at the corner of Shattuck Avenue and 46th Street in Oakland's Temescal Business District. Read more.
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Is Your Summer Salad Garden Bolting? Plan What You Plant!
Here's a handy article from Berkeley Hort with ideas for growing tender greens like amaranth, sorrel, miner’s lettuce, Malabar spinach, and endive, which do better during warmer months.
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Five Favorites for Outdoor Summer Dining
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Join the Pushback on Plastics!
The Ecology Center's Plastic-Free July offers how-to workshops and expert panels to help us push back on plastics, both in our daily lives and as informed, empowered citizens.
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Is There a Step Beyond Organics? Yes, it's Biodynamics!
Learn all about biodynamic farming and the philosophy and socioeconomics behind it at this talk with Willow Summer of Three Springs Community Farm, July 15 at 1pm on Zoom.
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What We’re Reading
- "Green is a Process." The East Bay Express profiles a group of local efforts to help us live sustainably.
- Berkeleyside reports on a federal judge's dismissal of the restaurant lobby's lawsuit against Berkeley's natural gas ban. The comments section offers interesting insight as well.
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