Posts Tagged as ‘Food’

October 20, 2008

Loving Vegan

Duck and I made some delicious food…below are grilled eggplant from the farm, quinoa, and homemade pickled turnips. It felt like a good time to reflect on my food choices in the wake of such a blessed meal.

Before I became vegan, I basically thought that vegans were a little crazy. There was threshold of sanity, [...]

October 19, 2008

Food Justice Reflection

One thing I’ve been doing as of late is volunteering with People’s Grocery. They’re a food justice organization committed to providing produce to West Oakland residence—a a district of Oakland with well-documented 55 liquor stores and no groceries. As usual, lack of access to healthy, fresh food predominantly affects low-income folks of color, and West [...]

October 8, 2008

Urban Gardening-Part II

Image courtesy of MyFarm

With the exciting financial times, Duck and I have been thinking about ways to both secure our own sense of safety and invest in our community. Since I’ve been feeling the food production thing, we decided to check out My Farm, which I found awhile ago poking around the web. My Farm [...]