Vacaville

Man Found Not Guilty of Robbing USF Student at Gunpoint

A man who was facing a potential 17 years in prison for robbing a University of San Francisco student at gunpoint back in 2010 was found not guilty of all charges.Joshua Johnson, 20, was acquitted of all three counts against him, including one count of robbery with a firearm, and two counts of assau ... More >>

Comprehensive Guide to CSAs in San Francisco: Meat, Eggs, Dairy, Etc.

A CSA meat package from Marin Sun Farms​Many people tend to think of CSAs only for fruits and vegetables, but in the Bay Area we're also blessed with a variety of meatier options. We've done the work of finding the farmers; now all you have to do is place your order and start up the grill. In ... More >>

Maurice Van Buren, Sex Offender, Charged With Impersonating Salvation Army Bell-Ringer

Maurice Van Buren, 47, is charged with being a bad bell-ringer​A Bay Area man has taken the express route to bad karma following a Friday bust for allegedly impersonating a Salvation Army bell-ringer and pocketing the money. Maurice Van Buren, 47, is still in custody at Solano County Jail facing a ... More >>

State Fund Heading Out of 'Dumb' San Francisco

You'll move to Vacaville, that's what you'll do...​This morning, the Chronicle broke a good one: The State Compensation Insurance Fund is moving 755 jobs out of San Francisco because it's too damn expensive here. Also, per the Chron, our city's workforce is "too dumb." That kind of sentiment is ce ... More >>

SFPD wants to recruit suburbocops from outside the city

Butchery Fundraiser in Vacaville: Half a Steer Feeds a Lot of People

​On October 30, an impressive roster of artisan butchers and chefs is convening at Vacaville's Soul Food Farm for a butchery demo and dinner. Inspired by farm founder Alexis Koefoed, the event will be a fundraiser for the newly created U.S. Butchers Guild and a handful of small, local farms. The ... More >>

Ippuku uses every part of the chicken to its best effect

At $5 a Pop, Injured Hens All Adopted Out

Ain't nobody here but us chickens...​The early bird gets the worm -- and the early adopter gets the chicken. All 80 of the clucking, egg-laying, injured hens that arrived Wednesday at the Marin Humane Society have been adopted. After knocking down the price-per-hen to five bucks -- chickenfeed, ye ... More >>

Rescued Hens Up For Adoption in Marin

​This morning, 70 rescued hens arrived at the Marin County Humane Society in Novato. They came from an animal sanctuary in Vacaville, where an egg farmer had dropped them off with plastic bands cutting into their legs. The farmer had placed the bands on the chickens when they were young, not think ... More >>

Thinking About Keeping Backyard Chickens? Rescued Birds Might Be a Good Place to Start

​This morning, 70 rescued hens arrived at the Marin County Humane Society in Novato. They came from an animal sanctuary in Vacaville, where a Northern California egg farmer had dropped them off with plastic bands cutting into their legs.The farmer placed the bands on the chickens when they were yo ... More >>

Cancakes, Sweetfingers, and Other Local Food Commercials We Love

Local television isn't as booming as it was years ago. One of the greatest casualties, Dr. Jang excepted, is the proliferation of awesome and awesomely strange commercials for Bay Area businesses. We thought we'd take a moment to honor a few past and present food commercials we love: 5. East Oa ... More >>

Soul Food Farm Workshop Probes Egg-Pasta Connection

Married with Dinner/FlickrSoul Food Farm's Alexis Koefoed (left) with Samin Nosrat.​Handmade pasta can be amazing. Or frightful, depending on whose hands are doing the making. Pristine ingredients can make it extra-amazing in the right hands. That's the lesson promised for Soul Food Farm's se ... More >>

Food, Inc. Whistle-Blower Coming to Bay Area for Series of Sustainability Talks

lancasterfarming.comCarole Morison.​"One more question, Mr. Pollan? Yes, thanks ― I'll make it a quick one. Shouldn't take long, I promise. So ― learning about sustainable chicken farms, pastured meat CSAs, and the horrors of industrial poultry production has been fascinating and all, but ... More >>

The SFO Cannonball Run

Horrified by a typical taxi trip from SFO? Thank a government program that pays cabbies to speed.

Vegan Bakesale In Oakland This Saturday

T. Palmer​Saturday's East Bay Vegan Bakesale should be a good time to try those apparently controversial Cinnaholic cinnamon rolls we mentioned yesterday, as well as treats from organizer Fat Bottom Bakery and more. Proceeds will be donated to Vacaville's Animal Place Sanctuary and also to the ... More >>

Scored on Craigslist: Texas-Style Sweet Potato Pies

CraigslistStraight outta Vacaville.​From the cow dung-littered fields of Vacaville comes a new sort of pie altogether ― with roots in Texas, nearly 1,600 miles from Solano County. As of this morning, an enterprising Craigslist vendor is hawking Texas-style sweet potato pies, which typically ... More >>

Medical marijuana growers score a defense

Free-Range, Apartment-Dwelling Chickens

NY Times Report on Soul Food Farm Confirms That Food, Politics Are Inseparable Here

sarahsuannecox/FlickrSign from a Cane Rosso benefit in October.​A brief profile in yesterday's New York Times Magazine shone a warm national light on Soul Food Farms. Tenders of chickens expect a wolf or two to show up at some point along the way, but arson is another matter entirely. When nea ... More >>

Doggy Bag: The Battle for the Bay Area's Soul

The Ethicurean​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. History lesson: The Ethicurean's Bonnie Azab Powell tells the story of the fire at Vacaville's Soul Food Farm. Really, it's ultimately about the stirrings of a phoenix-like recovery for the family-run pastured chicken-and-egg operation, which ... More >>

What to Do with Busted Birds? Soul Food Farm's Turning Them Into Chicken Leg Confit

Clucker plucker: The MD Master D plucking machine has what it calls "Velvet Touch" fingers.​Vacaville pastured chicken farmer Soul Food Farm hasn't known what to do with birds damaged in processing. That means chickens who emerged from plucking machines - tumbling, dryer-like gizmos lined wit ... More >>

Another 24 Hours: Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds

Irish Typepad/FlickrLooking for something like this? You might get more than you bargained for at Nature's Bounty.​SFoodie's weekly look at some urban essentials offered up on Craiglist. • Nature's Bounty, a family-owned, state-inspected farm facility in Vacaville -- aka Cow Town -- wants y ... More >>

The Ups and Downs of Soul Food Farm's Rise from the Ashes

Arthur PerleyMonday's benefit at Cafe Rouge has been nixed.​The day after a Bi-Rite raffle raised over $8,000 (plus a $2,000 company match) for Soul Food Farm, poultry farmer Alexis Koefoed sounded almost surprised by the level of support the figure represented. "I didn't realize that Slow Foo ... More >>

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Bi-Rite's Raffle for Soul Food Farm is Rallying Community Support

Michael Halberstadt/FlickrThe Mission District market is seeking to raise $10,000 for the farm.​The fire that destroyed a barn and several acres of pasture at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville last Thursday has succeeded in kindling a measure of community support. Today, Bi-Rite Market co-owner Sam ... More >>

Soul Food Farm Launching a CSA of Its Coveted Pastured Chickens and Eggs

Soul Food FarmSoul Food Farm's chickens get to walk around and eat stuff.​Starting in October, you might be able to score monthly pickups of the same chickens and eggs that the restaurants Coi, Quince, and Chez Panisse serve up. Alexis Koefoed of Soul Food Farm in Vacaville told SFoodie she' ... More >>

Junk Mail Solicitation of the Day: Save $10K on My Wedding? Tell Me More!

But see how much money they saved? When the suffix of your e-mail address is "@NameOfaNewspaper.com" you get a lot of amazing solicitations by truly desperate PR mavens. We've lost count of how many deluded souls thought you, the readers, would be clamoring for stories about contact paper one can ap ... More >>

Web Extra — Bonus Best Of

Serious Bread: Pure Grain Pumpernickel

This 100% rye bread is lighter and less sour than most of this style, and has a wonderful nuttiness.

2008 High School Battle of the Bands Semi-Finalists Announced

Your Inappropriate Sexual Conduct With Minors Roundup

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

The misunderstood adventures of the Bishop of Hip Hop

Butt Boards Up!

Riding the rapids and the placids of Cache Creek

Last Crawl

In which three Doggie Diner Dog Heads lead Silke Tudor cross-country, to a place that is not San Francisco but, even so, feels like home

Thrown From the Train

I go to five nights of Train concerts to find out if SF's biggest band is really all that bad

The Love That Loves to Love

How I discovered the real Nedelle behind her heartbreaking soul-pop creations

In the Spirits

From the ghosts of the Queen Anne Hotel to the "Miss Undead" pageant

Field of Liens

Before you succumb to nostalgia about a simpler, humbler baseball time, heed the lesson of Vacaville

Sweat, Steel, and Stealth

Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

Night Crawler

Bringing in the Clowns

Letters

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Letters

Stage

Night+Day

Death Sentence

Why are prisoners with AIDS dying for release?

Letters

Lightmotif

SuppenkYche brings a German accent to Hayes Valley; Mad Magda's gives it a sense of humor

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?