Napa Valley Register did a write up about what’s been keeping me busy for the last month or so: Harvest Nights
(This is why I drop off the face of the planet for half of August and the months of September and October.)
Posted by Deb in Agriculture on September 27th, 2009 | No Comments »
The Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania is doing some really interesting research — and they have a really excellent couple of blogs. I highly recommend you subscribe to these feeds. Especially the “Global Warming News and Research.” It will pretty much keep you up to date — and help me resist the temptation [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Environment, Food, Organics on April 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
Bad news from California (like we didn’t already know) in the Wall Street Journal: Shrinking Water Supplies Imperil Farmers.
Dwindling water supplies are compounding economic woes in California’s Central Valley, causing farmers to leave fields fallow and confront the prospect of going under.
The state’s water supply has dropped precipitously of late. California is locked [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Bummer, Environment, News on February 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
These folks aim to turn the White House lawn into something way more yummy and useful.
I say it’s about dern time!
EDIT: And these folks are working on picking which farmer . . .
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Community & Activism, Environment, Food, Organics, That which is awesome on January 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
Well, as a farmer, I have a lot of worries, but lately this is what has been keeping me up at night.
California teeters on the edge of the worst drought in the state’s history, officials said Thursday after reporting that the Sierra Nevada snowpack – the backbone of the state’s water supply – is only [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Environment, Wicked Weather, You have got to be kidding on January 30th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Xerces Society has a new website. Yay, bugs!
I mean, seriously, just because they lack endoskeletons and have more appendages than you do is no reason to get all squeamish.
Here, we’ll start you off slowly with some really, really important bugs: native honeybees and bumble bees (one of my favorites). And they’ve got [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Animals, Environment, Science, That which is awesome, Uncategorized on January 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
This is what happens when the press visits: they come, say g’day, take some video and then disappear. Many moons later, you suddenly find yourself on You Tube.
Well, they spelled my name wrong, but the video is still pretty good. (Don’t worry, I’m as shocked as you are at how good I [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Film, News/Media, Oddly Enough, Organics, That which is awesome on October 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yep, that’s me looking all farmer-like last winter sitting on Barefoot’s electric ATV prototype named “Alice.” My crew and I have had the luck of being able to test this Barefoot Motors prototype; which basically means driving it all over our vineyards and trying to break it. And we did — except all [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Environment, Technology on August 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Who didn’t see this one coming? None of us in the organic ag industry are surprised. In fact, we’ve been worrying about it for at least a year now. Remember, bigger is not always better, especially when it’s Wal-Mart. Ok, kids, I’m posting the whole article here, complete with original links, [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Community & Activism, Environment, Food, Organics on January 31st, 2007 | No Comments »
This is a very good article, titled Poor Taste, on Grist debunking a recent anti-sustainable, anti-organic and anti-local food rant in The Economist that even invokes one of the chief architects of the ill-fated Green Revolution.
I mean, point well taken that creating a truly environmentally conscious and sustainable food system is NOT just limited [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Community & Activism, Environment, Food, Organics, Politics on January 19th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
