I’ve been very low energy this week in the gray winter weather. In the meantime I’ve been enjoying the discussions on the new Secret San francisco Facebook board. People love underground stuff, yet nothing is very secret on this site.
According to this KQED article, In just a week or two it’s expanded to over 50,000 [...]

Last week I met up with my friend who has a “Sexysoup” street food cart in the city. Kristin is one of the many successful San Francisco street chefs and a nutritionist promoting quality, tasty food “for the people” in San Francisco.
We headed over to the 2nd Underground Farmer’s Market together over at Capp Street [...]

My friend turned me on to Alicia Silverstone’s Kind Life blog. It’s got good content and forum dicussions on everything from restaurants, innovative chefs, how to make vegan french toast to great vegan purses on (the awesome, but overwhelming) handmade goods site Etsy. It’s useful for veggie-friendly people like me, who eat a plant-based diet [...]

Last night I visited the new Remake Lounge in the Green Zebra Environmental Center for a night of food activist mingling and media. This is a space that opened in late August for events, exhibits showing recycled art, and classes on remaking and reusing materials by the people who offer the Green Zebra coupon book.
Currently [...]

It’s amazing what you can find on the Internet these days. What if you could approach the classifieds with a clear vision of what you were seeking and bring it your way? This week, I set out to find a place to stay in Marin for a couple of nights, closer to where Aaron is [...]

It’s been good to be back in the bay area, where so many interesting folks working on healthy food cross my path. Now that my place is a bit more set up, I can set off to wander and get lost in what’s happening in the neighborhood, whether it’s on a leisurely stroll, on [...]

I just learned about La Cocina, a place where small food business owners - mostly women immigrants - can rent kitchen space, participate in the community, and market products together. There’s many food items for sale like chocolate treats, mole sauce, but my favorite finds are the South American empanadas and alfajores.
La Cocina also offers [...]

Once in a while when I go on a small adventure, I post an ad to rideshare on Craigslist, and hope someone interesting will come my way to share gas and make the trip more bearable.
I’ve shared rides with men and women, mostly up and down I-5 in California, but also across the state of [...]

While visiting San francisco yesterday, I was so happy to this newspaper headline among the usual bad news of our economic times typically printed on the front pages. San Francisco is the only city so far demanding that all food scraps go into compost. The city will begin fining those that leave food scraps in their [...]

Just read about a farm tour in Asheville this summer and thought it sounded great. For 20 bucks, you get to visit 38 farms and partake in things like yarn making, milking cows, or tapping for maple syrup. And there’s plenty of tasty things to try on the way like fresh bread, honey, and produce from an [...]