A recent article about food stamps in the New York Times created a flurry of fascinating comments on the New York Times website last week, and to further the discussion, the opinion editors asked six different people to contribute a piece for their “Room For Debate” section. The piece itself was supposed to be limited [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘san diego’
July 12, 2009
Pathway to Food Freedom.
This past week Christopher and I had a fence built so that I could give gardening in the backyard another try. The dogs are confused that their backyard is just a little smaller; they don’t seem to understand why they can’t go behind the fence.
Learning to garden has been quite an experience for me, I feel like [...]
June 27, 2009
A Farmers Market for Everyone.
On Saturday morning, Christopher and I took a trip outside of our usual range of travel. We went to City Heights, a community within San Diego, to learn about their farmers market.
Right away it was apparent that this farmers market differed from the one we are used to visiting. Ours is held at a local elementary school [...]
May 16, 2009
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks?
Christopher has lived in the San Diego area for most of his life. During that time he has been to countless Padres games and swears he has never seen them win. Yesterday, which happened to be the day after we ended our second project, we headed down to the park once again to root for the Padres. [...]
May 2, 2009
Dancing “Food Justice”?
Christopher told me a few weeks ago that he had signed us up for a conference on gardening this weekend. I have decided that maybe it was good that my first attempt at gardening became a snack for the dogs because my latest attempt is looking a little too yellow. I figured that I could [...]
