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A Conversation with Black Chefs
Join Farms to Grow, Inc. on Saturday, April 24, 3–4:30pm for an online conversation with Black chefs celebrating African American foodways, cultural preservation of ancestral agriculture and recipes, contributions to America’s supply chain, and barriers.
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Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour Returns
This popular annual tour of local gardens kicks off on April 25 for four Sundays. The free Zoom event visits 25 different gardens, offering lots of inspiration and hands-on information for native plant enthusiasts. Read more.
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Calling Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Fund Managers
to the Inclusive Economy Showcase
Tune in on April 22 as this panel of local leaders discusses opportunities for supporting organizations that benefit the East Bay community. Read more.
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StopWaste Earth Month Offers Oodles of Valuable Events
Click here for lots of fun Earth Month activities! Find a workshop on electrifying your home, a discussion with chefs on reducing wasted food and saving money, virtual events on sustainable gardening and healthy soil, and lots more. Curious about what activities your city is hosting? You'll find links to those as well.
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Entangled Life: a book review
My five-year-old granddaughter has a fresh, inquisitive mind that would make Socrates proud. I struggle to answer questions like, “How far does the sky go?” or “Why will we die and what happens then?” Much to my relief, there’s a book that explains in a careful and wondrous way how all life is interconnected; Entangled Life provides a reassuring vision of our place in the complexity of the universe. The author—with the wizardly name of Merlin Sheldrake—has a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. The book’s subtitle, “How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures,” gives some idea of where you will head when you plunge into Sheldrake’s world. What's fungi got to do with it, you may ask? That’s the fascination of the book. His fungi-driven “wood wide web” is much more fascinating than the World Wide Web and without the dire consequences. After reading this book, I tell my granddaughter, “We come from the stars and will return to the stars.” She understands, but I know she’s thinking, “But where do the stars come from?” That’s an ongoing mystery that even Sheldrake has not solved.
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