Trent on April 2nd, 2010

Last Friday we had a visit from the Santa Cruz Sentinel.  The coverage has helped generate more awareness about the community garden we are helping install at the Christ Lutheran Church in Aptos, CA.  See the article here. More importantly, residents of Santa Cruz County who saw the article and would love to have a [...]

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Trent on February 19th, 2010

Our recent post on Jamie Oliver covered his acceptance speech for the prestigious TED prize.  The speech says volumes about Mr. Oliver and his dream.  Today we cover just a few of his achievements to date.  Let’s take a look at what motivates this young chef to help so many people. James Trevor Oliver, born [...]

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Trent on February 19th, 2010

Organic has been commandeered by government and now corporate food giants. Is ‘Locally Grown’ headed down the same rabbit hole?

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Trent on February 11th, 2010

Thanks to countless hours of hard work by Gene Sanden, the site for the cistern is ready to go.  Capitola Pump delivered the  cistern, donated by Patty Quillin, and will return with a crane to set it in place.  We extend our thanks to Capitola Pump for donating their services on this part of the [...]

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Linda on December 16th, 2009

How did we get involved with our community garden? We met Jeff and Adele Talmadge, owners of Talmadge Construction, at our city’s annual Shortest Parade in the World and Pancake Breakfast on the 4th of July this year. We were introduced by our dear friends, Kim and Pete Mansfield. Kim used to watch their son [...]

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Linda on December 15th, 2009

Food What?! Youth Dig In A big reason why more of us don’t buy organic food is because of the price. Of course, growing your own sustainable garden is an inexpensive option. The National Gardening Association’s recent study “The Impact of Home and Community Gardening in America” cites that a well-maintained food garden can yield an [...]

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Trent on November 18th, 2009

We’re so excited!  Linda and I have worked so hard on our children’s book, and after months of hard work we just received our first copy.  And, despite sounding vainglorious, it is really beautiful! The book was something we decided to write to supplement the Classroom Bundle and Homeschool Bundle that we have just launched.  [...]

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Linda on July 28th, 2009

We love Slow Food Nation, an organization founded by Alice Waters. Here’s why: Slow Food USA seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in the food system.  We reconnect Americans with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce our food.  We inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices and market [...]

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Linda on July 27th, 2009

TLC hired Kelly Ripa (From Regis and Kelly fame) and her production firm, Milojo, to cast a new show about women and their inventions. Those who are selected will have their product mass manufactured and sold on HSN! We couldn’t make the casting call in Los Angeles, so we submitted video instead. We don’t know [...]

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Trent on June 17th, 2009

“the birthplace of organics” gets a new roof…

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