After many years of pining, and many months of delaying, I am now the proud tender of my very own growing space. My dear husband, whose benevolence more often than not gets taken for granted, spent several days designing and building me a raised planter box using nothing but his ingenuity, some hand tools, and [...]
I had always thought of urban foraging like a treasure hunt. Sneaking through the bush, avoiding questioning eyes, searching high and low to seek my quarry – ripe fruit for the taking. Reality was slightly different. In broad daylight, I pulled my car up to the curb, hopped out, and scavenged my first fallen fruit. [...]
Posted by Renée Woodring on February 2nd, 2010 under
Food,
My SoCal Life Tags:
lemons,
Urban Foraging •
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The Dog Days of Summer have arrived and all I can think is “dang it’s hot.” Too hot to think, too hot to move, and way too hot to cook. Just when it seemed like I was destined to starve for lack of the will power to turn on the oven, I remembered the wonder [...]
It was quite serendipitous that I should receive an invitation to a media dinner at Tender Greens on the heals of writing a post questioning how one can measure “good enough” in eco-minded companies. Tender Greens has been an eco-aware restaurant from its inception, and with their expanding focus on local ingredients, they continue to [...]
Posted by Renée Woodring on August 13th, 2009 under
Food,
Places Tags:
Paul Reeb,
restaurants,
Tender Greens,
Urban Farming •
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