Last weekend I had the great pleasure of attending the Tierra Vegetables greenhouse-warming. All my favorite Tierra characters were there—Lee and the dogs, Zeni, Erica, Wayne and Evie (and their dogs), and a bunch of Tierra regulars I’d seen before. I also met Montana Hartley, greenhouse builder extraordinaire, and his two lovely daughters. I filmed [...]
For me, Steve Sando is pretty much the most famous person I have met (and actually been able to have a conversation with). Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Steve Sando of Rancho Gordo beans and poking around in his bean packing plant. A lovelier industrial space is hard to be found—natural [...]
This is the month for pruning and for reading seed catalogs—armchair gardening. My current favorite catalog is The Natural Gardening Company‘s comparatively thin but well-curated missive from Petaluma, California (it’s local for me, that’s part of why I love it). I also subscribe to Johnny’s Selected Seeds because my dad always did, and Seeds of [...]