Subscribe to Our Blog FeedIt’s been a little more than a year since the enactment of Assembly Bill 1616, the California Homemade Food Act, which for the first time allows folks to make certain foods at home and then legally sell them to stores, restaurants and directly to the public. By eliminating the decades-old requirement that foods for sale… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Food Philosophy
Love It or Leaf It, Kale Is on the Menu
I went out for lunch with my folks today, and my dad ordered a raw kale salad with pomegranate seeds, apple and feta. Just a few nights ago, a friend served me kale that she marinated for an hour in lemon juice and olive oil. A couple weeks back, I got to be the guinea… Read more »
Choices That Benefit Us All
Hello everybody. It’s been a little while since we had a new blog post, and I hope you have all enjoyed the holiday break as much as we did. It’s the New Year now, and it seems like everywhere you turn people are talking about their resolutions and what kinds of changes they want to… Read more »
Why I Offered Organic Red Peppers From Mexico
Golden Gate Organics is different than the traditional CSA model. Some CSA’s only deliver fruits and veggies that they grow themselves. Under this model variety may be severely limited at times. Additionally, with some CSA’s you get stuck with whatever you get in the box and have no choice over what you will be receiving…. Read more »
Have Your Pumpkin and Eat It, Too
I used to feel really guilty every year after Halloween, as I watched my poor pumpkin’s happily carved face droop and sag, eventually becoming mushy and maybe even fuzzy before I carried it the long, green mile to the compost bin. It made me think about all of the millions (and millions!) of pumpkins on… Read more »
Sharing the Harvest
“Why did you plant two?” I asked my neighbor when I came over to help pick “pear apples” from one of her two huge and overburdened Asian pear trees, which stand just six feet apart in her sunny back yard. “Because I wanted to put up a hammock between them,” she said, “but they got… Read more »
Artichokes, Biodiesel and the Botany of Desire
I went for a hike with my dog the other day in an undeveloped open space in the East Bay hills, one that at this time of year is graced with sweet-smelling golden grasses, sturdy coastal live oaks and a surprising variety of flowering perennials, despite the lack of recent rain. Over the years, my… Read more »
Back to the Land in the City
Back to the Land in the City When I’m not writing blogs for Golden Gate Organics, I make my living – in part anyway – by researching and compiling nonfiction anthologies for high school students. I’ve been doing it for almost 10 years, and it’s a pretty great gig because I get to learn about… Read more »
A Sippy Cup for Grown Ups
We talked about juicing last time, so I thought I’d see about the new apple juice that Corey keeps talking about. Bernie’s Best Organic Apple Cider has been available in the GGO boxes for a few weeks now, so I ordered two bottles this past week to see what all the fuss is about. Honestly,… Read more »
Drinking to Your Health
Juice people (aka: “juicers”) have a reputation for being rather evangelical about promoting the benefits of drinking, rather than eating, one’s fresh fruits and vegetables. Since juice contains most of the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients found in whole produce — minus all the bulky fiber that has to be digested — the theory is that… Read more »
