A Look at a Slow Money Restaurant: Gather (VIDEO)
What does it look like to start a values-based business with members of your community? Gather is a sustainable restaurant that serves as a successful model. Located in downtown Berkeley, California...
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Cheese Board Collective: 40 Years in the Gourmet Ghetto
Exploring alternative ways to work in the food industry is a hot topic. Recently in San Francisco a sold out Kitchen Table Talks, a monthly panel showcasing local food folk, featured a discussion...
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Catching Up with Eco-Chef Aaron French
Aaron French, a self-described eco-chef, has headed up the kitchen at The Sunny Side Café on Solano Avenue in Albany, California since it opened in 2004. For the past two years he’s served up...
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The Bread Project: Cooking Up a Future for People in Need
Pat Van Valkenburgh is the kind of person that The Bread Project hopes to help. A stay-at-home mom who home-schooled her two children until they attended Berkeley High School, Van Valkenburgh...
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New Guide Aims to Improve School Food
Given all the media attention, you may think that Alice Waters is the only person in Berkeley doing anything to fix school food–and that her Edible Schoolyard Project is the only organization tackling...
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Berkeley School Gardening, Cooking Programs Face Cuts
Three of Berkeley Unified School District‘s elementary schools–Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Washington—are in jeopardy of losing their entire cooking and gardening program funds beginning in October...
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Occupy the Farm: A Model of Resistance
We all know that “Every Day is Earth Day” and many environmentalists feel that their eating habits are their daily affirmation of a commitment to the planet. But what does it look like to take action...
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Farm Protesters Land Seized Back by UC Berkeley
The newly established farm on UC Berkeley-owned Gill Tract will soon be empty. At the time of this writing, it is surrounded by riot police from at least 8 different UC Campus police forces. Nine have...
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Urban Adamah 2.0: An Urban Farm Poised for Growth
Berkeley’s Urban Adamah*, a city farm with a faith-based focus, is putting down permanent roots. This Jewish-led, organic operation began on a 1.2-acre vacant lot thanks to a temporary, rent-free...
View ArticlePlan Global, Eat Local: U.C.’s Food Initiative Starts on Campus
It’s rare that a university system commits to solving a social issue on a global scale. That’s why the University of California’s recently announced U.C. Global Food Initiative could mark a critical...
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