Gardening

San Francisco Goes in for Guerrilla Grafting, While Seattle Plants an Edible Park

​The San Francisco-based Guerrilla Grafters have been receiving a slew of press this past month, including writeups in the Bay Citizen and Huffington Post. The Grafters are a loose group of people trying to transform, one limb at a time, some of the ornamental apple and pear trees in San Fran ... More >>

Sunday: Chez Panisse, Pizzaiolo Tag-Team for School Gardens

OBUGS school gardens in West Oakland.​OBUGS Fundraiser with Pizzaiolo and Chez Panisse Where: Pizzaiolo, 5008 Telegraph (at 51st St.), Oakland, 510-652-4888 When: Sun., Apr. 10, 6-10 p.m. Cost: $5 and up The rundown: If you aren't taking your Sunday supper in a bakery or a car showroom, Oa ... More >>

You Can Listen to Heavy Metal While Gardening, Though

OBUGS school gardens in West Oakland.​OBUGS Fundraiser with Pizzaiolo and Chez Panisse Where: Pizzaiolo, 5008 Telegraph (at 51st St.), Oakland, 510-652-4888 When: Sun., Apr. 10, 6-10 p.m. Cost: $5 and up The rundown: If you aren't taking your Sunday supper in a bakery or a car showroom, Oa ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

OBUGS school gardens in West Oakland.​OBUGS Fundraiser with Pizzaiolo and Chez Panisse Where: Pizzaiolo, 5008 Telegraph (at 51st St.), Oakland, 510-652-4888 When: Sun., Apr. 10, 6-10 p.m. Cost: $5 and up The rundown: If you aren't taking your Sunday supper in a bakery or a car showroom, Oa ... More >>

The Year Urban Farming Busted Out

CUESA/FlickrRaised beds at Alemany Farm.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Green city: At Bay Area Bites, Andrew Simmons muses on the city's dalliance with edible vegetation ― the urban farming movement that busted out in 2009 like fears about H1N1. What happened, Simmons suggests, is tha ... More >>

"The Matchbox Show"

CUESA/FlickrRaised beds at Alemany Farm.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Green city: At Bay Area Bites, Andrew Simmons muses on the city's dalliance with edible vegetation ― the urban farming movement that busted out in 2009 like fears about H1N1. What happened, Simmons suggests, is tha ... More >>

"Matchbox Show": Group Show

CUESA/FlickrRaised beds at Alemany Farm.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Green city: At Bay Area Bites, Andrew Simmons muses on the city's dalliance with edible vegetation ― the urban farming movement that busted out in 2009 like fears about H1N1. What happened, Simmons suggests, is tha ... More >>

Few Taking Up City's Offer of Free Sandbags

Sandbags can be most useful...​The term "selling like hotcakes" is bothersome. Just how well do hotcakes sell? And how many short-order cooks have been driven to violence because of tautological questions regarding the sales acumen of their hotcakes? In any event, if we're looking for an antonym t ... More >>

Another 24 Hours: Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds

SFoodie's weekly look at some urban essentials offered up on Craiglist. CraigslistMighty good eatin'.​• A farmer in Meridian has water-buffalo meat for sale. He's charging $8 a pound for vacuum-packed cuts. The animals' mozzarella di bufala-making days, apparently, were over. • Six Cucko ... More >>

Mayor's Choice to Replace Wealthy Supporters on Arts Commission -- His Own Employee

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Prelude to a Stink: SFSU's Stubborn Corpse Flower Still Yet to Bloom

Will SFSU's corpse flower ever open up and stink for the masses?Is the long-delayed bloom of San Francisco State's reticent corpse flower somehow tied to the state budget process? As it stands, we have neither -- the state is issuing IOUs and the school's 14-year-old corpse flower, predicted as read ... More >>

Lark Creek's Annual Half-Off Bottle Promotion Starts Tomorrow

LFL16/FlickrIf you order wine by the bottle, dining at One Market should be a bit more affordable in July.Let your wallet feel as flush as your face. Starting tomorrow (and for the entire month of July), Bay Area winos can savor half-off savings on every bottles on le menu at all Lark Creek restaura ... More >>

Convenience Store Robin Hood -- She Stole From the 7-11 and Gave To Random Folks -- Nabbed By Cops

...And grab a Big Gulp for Will Scarlet!In our experience, there's very little at a 7-11 worth threatening to kill or maim over -- you don't hear too many folks going on about life, liberty, and the pursuit of pemmican and sodas large enough to hide oversize cans of beer in when you go to the ballpa ... More >>

Is There Life after Orson? New Absinthe Pastry Chef Luis Villavelazquez Seeks to Find Out

Villavelazquez: BallsyIt's been a month since up-and-coming pastry whiz Luis Villavelazquez defected from Orson to Absinthe. How's he feeling? Tired. SFoodie checked in with the pastry chef the morning after his graveyard cook called in sick - Villavelazquez had just worked straight through the nigh ... More >>

Deadiquette: Common Deadhead courtesies demystified

Villavelazquez: BallsyIt's been a month since up-and-coming pastry whiz Luis Villavelazquez defected from Orson to Absinthe. How's he feeling? Tired. SFoodie checked in with the pastry chef the morning after his graveyard cook called in sick - Villavelazquez had just worked straight through the nigh ... More >>

Cypress Hill

Villavelazquez: BallsyIt's been a month since up-and-coming pastry whiz Luis Villavelazquez defected from Orson to Absinthe. How's he feeling? Tired. SFoodie checked in with the pastry chef the morning after his graveyard cook called in sick - Villavelazquez had just worked straight through the nigh ... More >>

Dean Smith and Dean Byington

Villavelazquez: BallsyIt's been a month since up-and-coming pastry whiz Luis Villavelazquez defected from Orson to Absinthe. How's he feeling? Tired. SFoodie checked in with the pastry chef the morning after his graveyard cook called in sick - Villavelazquez had just worked straight through the nigh ... More >>

Dean of San Francisco Gardeners: You Call This a Drought? I'll Show You a Drought!

Joe EskenaziSan Francisco's native plants, like the Raven's Manzanita, are old hands at coping with the region's mercurial weatherOne of the joys of speaking with folks whose institutional memories stretch back to the days when the Canaanites roamed the earth is being told -- repeatedly --  how ... More >>

Get it? Glasgow + Las Vegas

Joe EskenaziSan Francisco's native plants, like the Raven's Manzanita, are old hands at coping with the region's mercurial weatherOne of the joys of speaking with folks whose institutional memories stretch back to the days when the Canaanites roamed the earth is being told -- repeatedly --  how ... More >>

Saturday: Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at Civic Center

Joe EskenaziSan Francisco's native plants, like the Raven's Manzanita, are old hands at coping with the region's mercurial weatherOne of the joys of speaking with folks whose institutional memories stretch back to the days when the Canaanites roamed the earth is being told -- repeatedly --  how ... More >>

Slow Food Nation Wants YOU To Help Plant The Victory Garden!

Joe EskenaziSan Francisco's native plants, like the Raven's Manzanita, are old hands at coping with the region's mercurial weatherOne of the joys of speaking with folks whose institutional memories stretch back to the days when the Canaanites roamed the earth is being told -- repeatedly --  how ... More >>

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