by katie | May 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Cottage Food Law Would Make it Easier to Prepare Value-Added Foods for Market AB1616, the California Cottage Food Bill, has been progressing through committee with unanimous support this spring. The new law would make it possible to produce popular market items at...
by katie | Apr 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
GMOs and pesticides are in almost everything, including “natural” cereals… In Around the web on April 27, 2012 at 7:14 am From NATURAL NEWS Thanks to Ron Epstein Three facts you need to know about GMOs before you read the explosive test results below Before you view...
by katie | Apr 26, 2012 | Baking, Cooking, Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Pruning, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
Rural farming The economies of farming kept eluding me till I realize again and again that it’s not about financial returns, making lots of money, or what seems a fair wage for my hours. Instead it’s about quality of life, and a community alive . A...
by katie | Apr 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
This movie is now available to purchase or to rent, netflix etc. Really good movie to see about what farmers or small food producers are up against. The corporations are seeing us small market gardeners, food producers as competition. They are fighting to keep us...
by katie | Mar 31, 2012 | Baking, Cooking, Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
Today, reading and thinking about rural cultures that still have an agricultural base. Where local food is produced by small farms and you can buy and eat seasonal vegetables, fruit and even meat and local dairy products . Where a farmer or rancher can sell a quarter...
by katie | Mar 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
http://www.indiegogo.com/permaculture?a=523558
by katie | Mar 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
In reading ” A Thousand Days in Tuscany” by Marlena De Blasi, I found these excerpts; “Our favorites were the communal ovens in some of the smaller villages of the Friuli, ovens that are still lit at midnight each Friday with vine cuttings and huge...
by katie | Mar 27, 2012 | Baking, Farming, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability
I’m going to send this around again, some people did not get it. Bread this week: All organic, naturally leavened Bread. Available at Franny’s and by delivery. Three drop off spot’s, Point Arena, Anchor Bay and Gualala, plus home delivery if you are...
by katie | Mar 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
From RALPH NADER Transition Voice Banksters are now plundering Greece. How can turmoil in this tiny overseas economy affect your personal finances? For months now our stocks have gone up and down due to various concerns, but none more recurrent than concerns about the...
by katie | Mar 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Bread : Available at Franny’s or by special order email me at kpencegarden@yahoo.com or call 884-3048 I deliver to Point Arena schools, Koogles shed,and local businesses Anchor Bay- Blue Canoe Gualala – Natsha’s Flowers and local businesses. Leave...
