4/2 Metro Share

westsacfarmer:

Hello, hello. In your Metro share you found half a dozen eggs, “Winter Density” lettuce, and “Fordhook” silver chard. Not much news this week. Mostly my efforts are centered on preparing the beds for winter planting and weeding beds that were planted with spring crops.

Your existing year-long commitment is complete in two weeks. I would be thrilled to have your support for another 50 weeks. I am still committed to growing the best food close to where it is eaten. I burn no petroleum for farm production; import no commercial feed or fertilizer from off-site and am very conservative with water use. I raise animals in such a way that they can exhibit natural behaviors including foraging for food; propagate native plants; and select heirloom varieties of my crops to offer outstanding flavors and to protect the genetic integrity of our food sources.

Additionally, the existence of this small working farm in West Sacramento has served to demonstrate the importance of creating a secure local food system. I have partnered with the Eatery in West Sac to collect his food waste and compost it at my farm. I sit on the planning committee for the West Sac Farmer’s Market. I teach urban farming classes for Soil Born Urban Ag and Education Project. My daughter’s kindergarten class will have a field trip to the farm in a few weeks. I can speak out against the use of chemical pesticides and genetically-modified foods because I offer a working alternative.

All this is possible because you have made a commitment to being connected to a farm in your community. You value my time and efforts and I value your support. Thank you for a productive year.

Dan Gannon, Father, Farmer

Humble Roots Community Supported Agriculture

i’m so glad you exist, mr west sac farmer! this is a lovely letter. i am sending you my love and support! 

Sacramento Urban Agriculture Alliance

do you live in sacramento? do you love food? do you love to grow food? do you love the idea of healthy, clean, affordable food for all?

join the SUAA google group!  based off the SFUAA group, with your help, the SUAA group will become the network for all things agriculture related in the metro area.

 have extra fencing? post it! 

need a garden manager for a school plot? post it!

need advice on what the heck is eating your plants? post it!

this is just getting started—we need you to connect and make it your own! 

pipperipembo: Dear Sacramento Urban Agriculture Enthusiasts:             Spring is here! Time to come out of hibernation and start cultivating growth in our community.  The time is ripe for a coalition of individuals and organizations to unite and discuss what the next steps are for Sacramento to continue its transformation into an edible city with food justice for all.             I see so many people in my community working toward this vision of food access.  What I see lacking is a solid network that unites everyone already working in this field and attracts more people to dig in.  We need a coalition of all the various groups and people.  We need to get together and assess where we are, what the next steps are, and where we want to be in one year, five years, and one hundred years.    I propose the formation of the Sacramento Urban Agriculture Alliance.  My inspiration comes from the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance, which “promotes the growing of food within San Francisco and the associated goals of our member organizations, through advocacy, education, and grassroots action.”             I invite you to gather at the Pocket-Geenhaven Library meeting room on Wednesday, March 27 at 6 PM (a few hours into the full moon). The meeting will begin shortly thereafter.             Please spread this message to anyone and everyone who eats food in the Sacramento region.              The soil is fertile—now is the time for planting the seeds of change. Thank you. With love and warmth,  Lily Rothrock (916) 320-9658 lilyrothrock@gmail.com @lilyrhoads pipperipembo.tumblr.com meeting this wednesday! sacramento peeps, please reblog this! today i met with antonio from the san francisco urban agriculture alliance and we talked about all the great things going on in the northern california food scene. there are a lot of great people doing a lot of amazing work—-now let’s bring them together and see what still needs to be accomplished! 
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pipperipembo:

Dear Sacramento Urban Agriculture Enthusiasts:

            Spring is here! Time to come out of hibernation and start cultivating growth in our community.  The time is ripe for a coalition of individuals and organizations to unite and discuss what the next steps are for Sacramento to continue its transformation into an edible city with food justice for all.

            I see so many people in my community working toward this vision of food access.  What I see lacking is a solid network that unites everyone already working in this field and attracts more people to dig in.  We need a coalition of all the various groups and people.  We need to get together and assess where we are, what the next steps are, and where we want to be in one year, five years, and one hundred years.   

I propose the formation of the Sacramento Urban Agriculture Alliance.  My inspiration comes from the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance, which “promotes the growing of food within San Francisco and the associated goals of our member organizations, through advocacy, education, and grassroots action.”

            I invite you to gather at the Pocket-Geenhaven Library meeting room on Wednesday, March 27 at 6 PM (a few hours into the full moon). The meeting will begin shortly thereafter.

            Please spread this message to anyone and everyone who eats food in the Sacramento region. 

            The soil is fertile—now is the time for planting the seeds of change.

Thank you.

With love and warmth, 

Lily Rothrock

(916) 320-9658

lilyrothrock@gmail.com

@lilyrhoads

pipperipembo.tumblr.com

meeting this wednesday! sacramento peeps, please reblog this!

today i met with antonio from the san francisco urban agriculture alliance and we talked about all the great things going on in the northern california food scene. there are a lot of great people doing a lot of amazing work—-now let’s bring them together and see what still needs to be accomplished! 

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think for yourself

there’s been a lot of vegan talk on my dash and at the same time, people keep reposting stuff i write about the failure of education to teach people how to think for themselves. 

people are very good at arguing why something is not vegan, but they’re not good at stepping outside the vegan program and seeing the whole picture. i know they can reprogram themselves to a certain degree, because vegans have stepped out of the program of the typical industrial diet. but, why stop at vegan?! i’m all for baby steps, but it just seems like people have decided to sit down and not try to see where they’re going anymore when they declare they are vegan. just as long as the toffuti ice cream sandwiches and dayia don’t get too expensive, they’re happy. 

how about eating naturally? we’ve destroyed the genetics of so many animals and plants on earth through human interaction.  check out botany of desire by michael pollen, which is on hulu and it’s a book. it’s about how none of the stuff we eat anymore is natural. and i don’t need to tell the vegans of tumblr what human interaction has done to animal populations…

we need to try and find the balance! go with the flow of equilibrium! eating mass amounts of soy is not natural. eating protein powder is not natural. eating processed oil is not natural. 

growing your own food, getting food from the farmer’s market, buying locally and organically is as close to natural as we have in today’s society.

here’s my advice for everyone: get rid of mine, get rid of yours. get rid of right, get rid of wrong. open pollinate your plants. let nature run it’s course. i planted some wild lettuce mix in a plot 3 years ago and didn’t touch it very much…now i have some vigorous self-seeded greens that are BEAUTIFUL and something completely new. what if we pushed over all the fences in the world and let all the breeds cross their genes? we’d have some crazy cool diversity and the ones we’ve created with factories would fall to natural selection.  

i’m gonna plant 3 kinds of corn right next to each other when the frost date passes. and i don’t give a fuck that everyone tells me not to. i want to create a new kind of corn that is right for my exact microclimate! because honestly, it’s the do as your told mentality that got is into our current mess.

so i’m gonna do what i want. i’m not going to let the vegan box dictate my life. or the society box. the only box i live in is the lily box—the box i created, the box i create every second with my thoughts and perceptions of the world. and i’m gonna fill the lily box with so much love that everyone will see my box and start creating their own boxes with all their love. and then all of a sudden the entire universe is just a bright shining box of love.

yeah. 

harvesting abundance with harvest sacramento

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beginning by arriving together, breathing together, then mixing all around. 

then we dispersed into the neighborhood to pick the little globes of sunshine. 

trees filled with abundance…they can teach humanity a lot. 

you certainly won’t find that in the produce section! 

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kumquats! the jewel of the citrus season. 

ended up harvesting about 3,000 pounds of citrus from backyards in colonial heights and tahoe park.  not bad for one morning!

now, doesn’t that make you smile? :)

Dear Sacramento Urban Agriculture Enthusiasts:             Spring is here! Time to come out of hibernation and start cultivating growth in our community.  The time is ripe for a coalition of individuals and organizations to unite and discuss what the next steps are for Sacramento to continue its transformation into an edible city with food justice for all.             I see so many people in my community working toward this vision of food access.  What I see lacking is a solid network that unites everyone already working in this field and attracts more people to dig in.  We need a coalition of all the various groups and people.  We need to get together and assess where we are, what the next steps are, and where we want to be in one year, five years, and one hundred years.    I propose the formation of the Sacramento Urban Agriculture Alliance.  My inspiration comes from the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance, which “promotes the growing of food within San Francisco and the associated goals of our member organizations, through advocacy, education, and grassroots action.”             I invite you to gather at the Pocket-Geenhaven Library meeting room on Wednesday, March 27 at 6 PM (a few hours into the full moon). The meeting will begin shortly thereafter.             Please spread this message to anyone and everyone who eats food in the Sacramento region. Follow the conversation on twitter using the hashtag #SUAA.             The soil is fertile—now is the time for planting the seeds of change. Thank you. With love and warmth,  Lily Rothrock (916) 320-9658 lilyrothrock@gmail.com @lilyrhoads pipperipembo.tumblr.com
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Dear Sacramento Urban Agriculture Enthusiasts:

            Spring is here! Time to come out of hibernation and start cultivating growth in our community.  The time is ripe for a coalition of individuals and organizations to unite and discuss what the next steps are for Sacramento to continue its transformation into an edible city with food justice for all.

            I see so many people in my community working toward this vision of food access.  What I see lacking is a solid network that unites everyone already working in this field and attracts more people to dig in.  We need a coalition of all the various groups and people.  We need to get together and assess where we are, what the next steps are, and where we want to be in one year, five years, and one hundred years.   

I propose the formation of the Sacramento Urban Agriculture Alliance.  My inspiration comes from the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance, which “promotes the growing of food within San Francisco and the associated goals of our member organizations, through advocacy, education, and grassroots action.”

            I invite you to gather at the Pocket-Geenhaven Library meeting room on Wednesday, March 27 at 6 PM (a few hours into the full moon). The meeting will begin shortly thereafter.

            Please spread this message to anyone and everyone who eats food in the Sacramento region. Follow the conversation on twitter using the hashtag #SUAA.

            The soil is fertile—now is the time for planting the seeds of change.

Thank you.

With love and warmth, 

Lily Rothrock

(916) 320-9658

lilyrothrock@gmail.com

@lilyrhoads

pipperipembo.tumblr.com

in chemistry, it’s very simple. redox potential, which is electron distribution availability, is predicting weather al liquids in your body are gonna have cancer. and yet it determines, turns out, that redox potential is just a measurement of factuality in liquid. to put it simply, if a liquid is fractal (redox correct) then it can support life. if the liquid is not fractal, then, distribution of charge is not efficient (fractal) and everything dies. so we need to re-look at, re-invent architecture and agriculture based on this new information: that we have to have a fractal living electric field to breathe charge efficiently to encourage growth in every living thing.

- dan winter, in restoring centripetal forces. 

what is the electrical nature of focused human intention? it compresses electrical charge! 

chakragathering:

pipperipembo:

video from some people back at usfca! love it. miss you my beautiful friends. the food looks lovely as always. just like you. 

this is a beautiful example of working together to create abundance. like melinda said, 40% of american’s food is wasted. so-given that, now—what can you do in your community to make positive change? I attended almost every one of these dinners when i was living in san francisco. they are steaming with love, and the room radiates with love as the food is digested. there was a clothing swap and i got a lovely green dress at one. i networked and shared with people in my community doing great work. i got free veggies and fed myself and friends. when you take a problem, add good intention, and manifest it in reality—a beautiful thing happens. it’s magic. the good intention, the radiant loving feelings grow and spread—that is how we make change. 

yay i love running blogs so i can spread more light :)

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casa

moved in with my homestay family.  my mom, nancy, is a wonderful person.  she is so sweet and keeps on asking me what kind of foods i like and dont like.  and i’ve been sick (fucking altitude) and she’s been keeping tea ready and tonight she made a delicious asparagus suave soup.  muy rica.  good for my upset stomach too.  

last night i didn’t feel well, and went to sleep with 6 blankets, fleece pants, and a sweatshirt.  i went pee 3 times before i fell asleep.  then i woke up at 3 am, drenched in sweat.  and my heart was boom boom boom booming out of control.  i didn’t think i’d be able to go on our field trip today.  but i concentrated my thoughts on salud and i think it worked- my encroaching sore throat, which i was sure was going to stick around for a few days, was gone when i woke up at 3 am.  thank god.  

i had lovely fruit for breakfast (i was right, fruit and granola for breakfast! yay. except it’s the puffy stuff and they have it with yogurt which i don’t eat. so fruit for me. bueno).  then we walked to proworld, got on a bus, and drove up up up and zig zag zig until i was ready to vomit.  then we got out, and voila! salt baths.  those were really cool. there is salt water from the mountain and they let it into pools and dry it out to harvest the salt.  our guide was awesome, from peru, and told us all about how incans believed in the gods they could see, pachamama, mother earth, the sun, rainbows, lightning, etc. when the spanish came, it was hard for people to understand gods that they could not see. also, they believed they had to pay deep respect to the mountain, for instance, and they would not spit on it because they feared the mountain would take the salt water back.  the water was warm as a bath, and the fresh air felt great for my head.  but it was a lot of walking down, then up, which made my heart boom boom and my lips tingle.  

when we got time to walk around, i walked up to the little shops with the tour guide, who also had a headache. when i told him my major was urban agriculture, he got very excited and asked me lots of questions.  i explained how the garden is a retreat and an attack, a place of meditation and bliss as well as a place to dig your hands into the world you want to see.  he told me about his garden, and his plant experiments.  he played “trash” music to one set of plants, classical to another, and no music to another. the trash music plants grew the most, the classical a bit less, and the control grew not much at all.  very interesting.  i think i want to do a similar experiment in the USF garden when i get back next year.  

then, we went to moray, which is a really old terraced circular farm.  it was super interesting.  our tour guide told us that they were shaped after testes, a penis, and a vagina, jaja. we walked all the way to the bottom. the energy at the center was marvelous.  i laid down, then did a back bend.  i even got a diplo express yourself pic, which is awesome.  but, climbing out, i wanted to die.  my muscles felt tingly, i was short of breath, and apparently i was really pale.  stupid altitude. glad i was able to go despite my enfermo.  

and, dun dun dun, classes start tomorrow. que triste.  i hope i get advanced spanish, fingers crossed. 

I made this short film to show why I love the garden I work in and to share what it means to me.  It is my place of retreat and attack, how I dig my hands into creating a world I want to see. Hope you enjoy it! 

meet my garden

this is my organic garden in sacramento.  from left to right, I’m growing: lemon cucumber, beans (only just sprouted), lettuce, cilantro,  oregano, peppers, radishes, tomatoes, dill, chard, kale, potatoes, tree collards, and squash.  ain’t it lovely? 

these are the radishes. they add nice zest to my salads. 

these are the tree collards. they are a perennial from africa. this plant could save the world. 

this will be a nice juicy beefsteak soon.  

this is the dill. I love dill. it’s the best on eggs. and look at those pretty yellow buds!