This morning I got to try my hand at making our granola (for Urban Gleaners sister company Tracy’s Small-Batch). Okay, so maybe ‘making’ is a bit of an exaggeration. I stirred ingredients together. Still- I helped! It made me think of a recent New York Times...
As I was writing this blog, I kept trying to make it into two distinct stories. On the one hand, the debate surrounding the minimum wage for food service workers. On the other, the rising price of food due to several forces, including recent inclement weather. As I...
Portland Nursery has generously offered to provide discounted starts and tools, the Urban Gleaners garden get off the ground (or get into the ground) and we’re finally ready to start planting. Or rather, our window is closing and whether we’re ready or not,...
Most kids go wild with delight at the prospect of winter vacation. However, at Cherry Park Elementary, the prospect of winter break creates a different kind of reaction: one of fear. For many students at Cherry Park Elementary, the school provides the only two meals...
Singapore is experiencing the growth of a new kind of high-rise. Twenty miles outside the busiest part of Singapore, farmer Jack Ng is building high rises that exclusively houses plants— edible plants. And his tenants pay good rent; Jack Ng is part of a vanguard of...
I think we’re all smarting from the failure of California’s Proposition 37. Or maybe not, but whether you saw the tree fall in the forest or not, were all going to be hearing it fall for some time to come. The measure, which graced the ballot in California this...
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