A couple of weeks ago I attended the grand opening of a pioneering new facility, Dig Deep Farms Food Hub. LEAF will be joining Dig Deep Farms as a local farm supplying nutrient-rich produce to local clinics with food-as-medicine programs.…
Mia Mora
A sad farewell to Stone Garden’s black acacia
We knew there was a problem when a huge tree limb crashed to the ground at LEAF’s C.R. Stone Garden in late October.
Seasonal cookies: persimmon spice
Seasonal - as ‘in season’. When November rolls around, I look forward to seeing persimmons at the farmers market. You’ll find them there through early winter. While I’m not a big fan of fancy iced holiday cookies, when it’s chilly…
Farms in East Palo Alto?
Long-time LEAF volunteer and master gardener Guy Duran has created microfarms in the large backyards of two homeowners in East Palo Alto.
Tips for using herbs (recipes too!)
At our July workshop, LEAF Center Garden Supervisor Lisa Wills showed us how to use the abundance of herbs from our gardens in muddled waters, pesto, aioli, salts, bath cubes and even dainty little drink cubes. We learned about the nutritional…
Community gardens afield
While traveling in Seattle recently, I stumbled across a delightful community garden in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Exploring further, I found another one nearby and learned that Seattle, with a population of 756,000, has about 90 community gardens, with over…
Greenhorns free movie
Where does your food come from? More and more Bay Area markets and restaurants proudly advertise that their meat and produce is local, brought fresh to the table by farmers working near and even inside urban areas. You can get…
