Browsing: Farm & Garden

Lunch at Larkspur Landing, CA. A beautiful farmers’ market next to a great redwood-tree sculpture playground and fine bookseller, Diesel. The Farmer’s Wife made me a plate of local greens, a fried egg, fennel sausage with local meat, jicama, and avocado.

Looking out the plane window, westbound to SF from NYC, I am struck by my limited understanding of, and vocabulary for, the landscape I see. In Nebraska, what are those large, perfect circles in shades of brown and green, some with shaded pie-shapes?

In 1980, when I was nine years old, I first started selling vegetables at farmers’ markets near our farm in…

Abolish the what? In the local food world, CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. It’s a brilliant idea but the…