Sometimes I worry that it is. That all this; local food, local community, organic food, humane treatment of animals, developing local economies based on people running their own businesses, mutual trust built on real relationships, the move away from industrial food, that it’ll all go away. It’s happened before. This philosophy was popular back in [...]
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Updates on The Cottage Food Law: Licenses, ordinances, and the Board Of Supervisors
The Cottage Food Law, which allows the homemade production and sale of certain foods, was passed on Jan 1st. I was so excited because I assumed that people would be able to start getting permits right away, but of course, that is not how government works. I’ve recently started looking into where we are in [...]
Selling Life: Why a Soybean is Not a Stereo
Selling Life: Why a Soybean is Not a Stereo I heard a story on my way into work today and am feeling compelled to write something about it. It covered the Supreme Court case of a soybean farmer vs. Monsanto. The case, as I understand it, boils down to this: a man went to a [...]
Looking back over four years of dinners
Tonight is our four year anniversary of our Wild Kitchen dinners, our meals that focus on locally foraged ingredients. It’s crazy that’s its been four years! I did the first Wild Kitchen on Valentine’s Day in a friend of a friend’s warehouse in the Mission. At the time my email list was about 50 people [...]
Kickstarter dinners and crowdfunding
I havn’t written in a few weeks, and lots has happened. We just got done with our first series of kickstarter reward dinners. Dinners where everyone there was either a kickstarter supporter or their guest. It was nice to finally meet and give back to the folks who helped so much during the campaign. We [...]
This week in forageSF- open source design, Outstanding in the Field, kickstarter reward dinners, plates made of walnut
This has been a good week. The interns we hired a few weeks ago are great, and it’s been nice to have the extra help. We’re finally finished getting all the info together on the kickstarter backers. It’s amazing what a logistical challenge it is trying to get 1600 people to respond to a survey, [...]
