What’s wrong with bottled water?
What’s wrong with it: the water is not necessarily better fossil fuels and carbon footprint plastic and downcycling the entire use-it-once-and-throw-it-“away” mentality And there’s more … read about how bottled water companies are stripping water resources from our mountain ecosystems…
Pomegranate Cranberry Sauce recipe
In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, several people enjoyed my photos on Instagram of pomegranate processing. Some people begged for the recipe. The original recipe was something my sister made up years ago, to cope with an over-abundant harvest…
Sustainable meat production
Living more sustainably doesn’t necessarily have to mean going meatless. I just finished reading the beautifully written Gaining Ground by market farmer Forrest Pritchard. It is a lovely story about rebuilding local foodsheds and knowing the people who produce your food.…
The power of buying local food
“Buy Local.” Why do we keep saying that? Why is it important? What does it accomplish? How: Buy your food from the most local producers you can find. For instance my farmers’ market often features vendors as close to L.A. as Moorpark,…
Build your own solar cooker
Amid a record-breaking heat wave, I’m making tonight’s dinner in my solar cooker. It saves energy (LADWP is sending out energy conservation warning emails). And it avoids heating up my kitchen. We made these easy solar cookers years back as an…
Gluten-free Pizza options for wood-fired oven
It’s no secret that we built a community-scale wood-fired bread-and-pizza oven here in Los Angeles. And that we hold monthly Community Bake events in conjunction with Los Angeles Bread Bakers so that anyone can try their hand at baking in it.…
Why edible landscaping?
• Edible landscaping puts the city footprint to use.• Your landscape water performs dual duty – aesthetic AND food production.• Edible landscaping helps cut the oil use, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions of importing your food.• Health: You can control…
