If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.We are not the only ones pushing to make Sacramento a better place. As a matter of fact we are just following in the footsteps of some very great people who have been pushing for these things for a long time.
Here are [...]

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I got this email in my in-box today from Colleen that I thought was worth sharing with you. My family belongs to a local CSA but this takes things to a whole new level. Enjoy!
Dear Levi, Jason and Steve.
Last December, I met with Steve Schweigert and introduced him to my associates; Richard [...]

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These pics are from a ramen shop, Shoki Ramen House, that just opened in my neighborhood. I think the pictures say a lot about living small, focusing on what you are…

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I actually never thought of it until tonight, why people were called tree-huggers. I guess I just assumed is was because there were crazy environmentalists who hugged trees (and perhaps there are).
But this article helps us understand tree-huggers of a different nature.
I guess it resonates with me a bit [...]

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I know, I know… you have had enough pizza recommendations after both Sactown and Sacramento magazine ran stories about the best pizza in town this month, but I can’t help myself.
I heard that Old Soul was going to offer pizza and finally got a slice today - and I was impressed.
I got the vegetarian and [...]

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I’ve only recently realized that I’m a big fan of animation…go figure.
I especially like this kind…anim(educ)ational: hard-core data with sly little visual jokes along the way and music that makes my head sway unconsciously (basically anything with “doot-doot-do”s).
This short clip on food mileage had me hooked by the basic simple device of giving the pace [...]

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Levi read me a quote the other day from Barbara Kingsolver’s Book, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.” It was talking about cities as places that produce their own food versus having to import the food into the city– a reversal of the Global Agricultural phenomenon we’ve seen in the last 20 years, where more and more [...]

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Micah passed this quote on to me…
If every US citizen ate just one meal a week that consisted of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our oil consumption by 1.1 million barrels of oil a week! Each food item in a typical US meal has traveled an average of 1500 miles.
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This should be fun. We’re partnering with the city of West Sacramento and several other developers on a Music Festival, the first of many to come in the Washington neighborhood.
You can get the full scoop on the event site, but here’s a quick rundown:
Date: This Sunday, April 22nd
Time: 12 – 5:30pm
Location: Corner of 3rd [...]

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I found some more CSA info for you all. Most of this was from a good Sacramento Magazine article that outlines the local produce options from grocery stores, CSA’s, and farmer’s markets….
Here are some farms in the Sacramento region that offer CSA programs:

Soil Born Farm, Sacramento; (916) 486-9686Soil Born delivers boxes of produce to its [...]

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