Sunday, January 16, 2011
One Year at Hayes Valley Farm
Over 2,000 volunteers have been building Hayes Valley Farm. Here's a montage of my farm photos from 2010.
I've been working on several art projects at the farm, including the Photo Adventure Club, Dusker, and Interdependence Day. To learn about upcoming Photo Adventure Club meet-ups, contact me at: edibleoffice (at) gmail (dot) com
Friday, May 21, 2010
Map of Hayes Valley Farm - aerial view circa 2009 (Before the Farm Began)
Click on the aerial photograph to go to an interactive image showing how a former freeway off-ramp has been transformed into an urban farm.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Join the Photo Adventure Club
photographers - By Helen E. Tout
Eat watermelon, and take portraits in the field of fava beans growing on the former 101 freeway on-ramp. All ages welcome! No need to sign up, just show up.
Photo Adventure Club
3-4pm Thursdays & Sundays in May
At Hayes Valley Farm
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Mustard
Mustard loves the fog of San Francisco. My dream of a purple peacock terrace has come to life with four cultivars of mustard: Giant Southern, Giant Red, and Ruby Streaks, and Osaka Purple Wave.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
A Garden Picnic: How Seeds Travel
Edible Office, in collaboration with fellow information designer Erin Wilson, has been busy developing the Pocket Seed Library (PSL). The PSL is an ongoing collection of seed packets and growing instructions designed to encourage people to plant, save and share seeds. Check out the Pocket Seed Library website and, if you're in the Bay Area, join us for A Garden Picnic: How Seeds Travel, a community potluck in the magical backyard garden of Southern Exposure Gallery.
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edibleoffice,
picnic,
pocketseedlibrary,
seedexchange,
seeds,
seedsaving,
soex
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Art from the Edible Office Retreat!
Dia Felix wrote and directed a movie in the course of the 7 hour Edible Office Artist Retreat. Starring: Bonnie Dundee and Corinna Press. Cinematography: Jed Bell.
Margaret's Stone Fruit Radicchio Salad
At the Artist Retreat, Margaret improvises a savory salad with seasonal fruit and bitter greens: plums, red and green nectarines, white and yellow, apricots, radicchio (fresh from the Edible Office), spearmint, raw walnuts, shallots, fresh ginger, olive oil, salt and pepper
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Chef-in-Residence #1
During her residency at the farm, Margaret Tedesco of [second floor projects] harvests the first of this summer's cultivars, then experiments in the kitchen. Let's just say, I hope to have her here for another residency! Yum!
- Mixed farm greens with nasturtium and calendula flowers, feta, dates, & lemon vinaigrette
- Thai red rice cooked with coconut milk & sage
- Corn relish with sautéed shallots and red peppers
- Sauteed pumpkin seeds with nutmeg and cayenne
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Let's Trade Seeds
Spread this activist meme: the re-awakening of community through urban farms and farmer's markets.
- Let's share. If you have seeds, I'd love to trade with you.
- Meet me at The Ecology Center's Seed Library, where people can 'check out' seeds and then return their "spawn" within a few years.
- Contact me if you want an invite to the next seed trade and Urban Homesteader Trading Card Exchange.
- Get involved with a food advocacy organization or local farm.
Labels:
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foodadvocacy,
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Food Advocacy Organizations & Other Farmy Links
Keep spreading this activist meme.
- http://www.organicconsumers.org
- http://www.thefutureoffood.com/involved.htm
- Environmental Working Group
- On the Commons
- The Seed Alliance
- http://nfu.org/
- http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/
- http://www.ucsusa.org/
- http://uas.coop/
Seed Banks: Preserve Diversity! Fight Monsanto!
Farm Art: Inspire Beauty and Wonder!
Seed Suppliers We Like
- Seeds of Change
- Seed Savers
- Nichols Gardens
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Last week I visited my friend Topiary on the day she redesigned her garden. I wanted to bring her a yacon plant but didn't feel like haggling with airport security. I settled for showing her my wallet pictures: Here's Yacon when she was just a wee tuber, here's her at one month, here's what she made at harvest time...ah, I'm a gramma now! (I have a dozen or so yacon babies I have been gifting to friends).
For the record: my obsession began long before yacon became totally trendy, a foodie rage which I predict will grow over the coming year. Yacon is so in demand, it's now near impossible to order. This is why it's good to have farmer friends.
Tuber photo by Seeds of Change
For the record: my obsession began long before yacon became totally trendy, a foodie rage which I predict will grow over the coming year. Yacon is so in demand, it's now near impossible to order. This is why it's good to have farmer friends.
Tuber photo by Seeds of Change
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Urban Homesteader Trading Cards!
Know the eco-heroes in your neighborhood?
Collect & trade Urban Homesteader & EcoCitizen Trading Cards!
Want to be featured on a trading card?
Convert your lawn into a vegetable garden!
Urban Homesteader Trading Cards feature people engaged with a sustainable, activist, or DIY activity, who then share this practice and knowledge with others. The cards are designed to build community and illustrate innovative approaches to urban living.
Contact me if you want to be part of the trading card deck. All participants will get a set of cards and an invitation to the next trading card exchange party.
Share the inspiring activities you are doing.
Then let the trading begin!
Collect & trade Urban Homesteader & EcoCitizen Trading Cards!
Want to be featured on a trading card?
Convert your lawn into a vegetable garden!
Urban Homesteader Trading Cards feature people engaged with a sustainable, activist, or DIY activity, who then share this practice and knowledge with others. The cards are designed to build community and illustrate innovative approaches to urban living.
Contact me if you want to be part of the trading card deck. All participants will get a set of cards and an invitation to the next trading card exchange party.
Share the inspiring activities you are doing.
Then let the trading begin!
Monday, March 24, 2008
My First Seed Exchange
I recently crawled out of winter hibernation so that I could participate in the seed exchange at the Ecology Center. The potluck hoedown seed trading event reminded me of the best parts of my hippy childhood. Between us, we had an amazing diversity and abundance of seeds. Year round, at the Ecology Center's Bay Area Seed Exchange Library (BASIL) "local gardeners and farmers can 'check out' seeds with the agreement that they attempt to grow them out and 'return' some seeds of the next generation at the end of the season."
Monday, March 17, 2008
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Specimens from the Alphabet Garden
Diagram by farmcore
I'm having left-brain right-brain wars as the information architect tries to collaborate with the farmer. Taxonomy is a shared sport. Sort of. My heart gets distracted by the poetry of names: "love lies bleeding." It does, doesn't it? Farm lore changes the flavor of a vegetable: Yacon is a secret among farmers. I reach into the dirt to pull up the tuberous root, native to the Andes. My fingers navigate through clusters of bulbous roots, pick a promising one. Then, excavate! Peel off the skin. Bite into a body of water. Like jicama, but gentler. Only a slight taste--unexpected and almost chemical. Saffron?
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Saturday, April 21, 2007
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