Ben the Painter

Ben the Painter

I met Ben Nardinelli about three years ago at a San Francisco Bay/East Bay Urban Farm tour. The farm tour, set up by Ruby at the Institute for Urban Homesteading, visited a number of urban farms in the Berkeley and Oakland border area. We were stopped at Wanda...
Tomato Tasting 2017

Tomato Tasting 2017

It’s time for our annual tomato tasting! This will be our fifth annual tasting and that alone warrants a blog post about tomato tastings. This year we will be featuring over 20 types of tomatoes from the local community, many of them grown from plants given away...
The Greenhouse Effect

The Greenhouse Effect

In April of 2010, I realized that my life had changed in a big way. Was it an “ah hah” moment or just a realization of the potential things I could grow in the greenhouse? I called it “The Greenhouse Effect” loosely titled from the term made...