Articles
Edible East Bay
May 2011
“Local Grain from
Field to Plate”
It’s late autumn 2010, wheat-planting time in the Central Valley. The 600 loamy Yolo County acres…Read more
Edible East Bay
November 2010
“Heritage Wheat”
We Bay Area diners can be a discriminating bunch. We like knowing where our food comes from and we want to taste...Read more
Edible East Bay
February 2010
“Koda Farms”
In late 2003, Martha Stewart told her viewers what Japanese and Japanese Americans already knew: Koda Farms, situated in the dusty heart…Read more
Alaska Magazine
November 2009
“Think Locally, Eat Locally”
7X7 July 2009
“North Beach Love Letter”
The San Francisco Chronicle March 29, 2009
“Grower Profiles:
Massa Organics”
Whether it's rising fuel prices, contending with wildlife, battling weeds or a fluke fire caused by burning debris flying off the back of a truck, Greg Massa of Massa Organics near Chico takes everything with the earnest aplomb of someone fulfilling a dream…Read more
Edible East Bay
Fall/Winter 2008
“Turning Summer’s Kernels
Into Winter’s Gold”
It’s a hot, dusty September day at Full Belly Farm. Rich Leavey crouches down to examine a few dry-looking ears of corn piled at the foot of the sun-bleached field…Read more
Edible East Bay
Harvest 2008
“Preserving Summer”
The plum tree standing at the corner of Tyson and Kathy Norris’s postage stamp of a backyard poses a problem: abundance…Read more
Edible East Bay
Spring 2008
“When Wheat Was Local”
The first thing Monica Spiller tells me, in an awed, conspiratorial tone, is that Moffett Field…Read more