http://ucanr.org/blogs/VictoryGrower_Blog/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Encouraging school, home and community gardens! en-us UC ANR http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/ Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:31:21 PST Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:31:21 PST UC ANR Not long ago, a friend asked several of us to jot down some memories about the kitchen tables in our lives. The operating premise of the exercise was that food is central to our relationships, and that much of life occurs around the places where we eat, and those we choose to eat with. My kitchen table memories are varied. My family moved quite frequently when I was young: our kitchen table was a sort of “movable feast.” In my faith tradition, this term has a very specific meaning...
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]]> Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:54:19 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5081&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rmhaydensmith@ucdavis.edu(Rose Hayden-Smith) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5081
]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:11 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3775&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rmhaydensmith@ucdavis.edu(Rose Hayden-Smith) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3775 I collect gardening catalogs.  To me, they represent life and productivity and the promise of family, good food and good health.  They also provide a link to a simpler, agrarian past that I find comforting and restorative in these unsettling times.  In a world where oil gushes unabated into the Gulf of Mexico, violence seems unchecked, compassion towards the less fortunate seems to have evaporated and economic misery abounds, I find gardening catalogs a refuge of optimism.  We need fewer bad...
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]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:19:32 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1731&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rmhaydensmith@ucdavis.edu(Rose Hayden-Smith) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1731
]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:18:43 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1724&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rmhaydensmith@ucdavis.edu(Rose Hayden-Smith) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1724 I have not posted since July on my Victory Grower blog.  It’s been – at times - a difficult and disheartening summer.  Like many Californians, I will remember this period as the “summer of our discontent” here, a period when we struggled with the realities of limitations.   Limitations imposed by a crushing state budget deficit, a dysfunctional system of state governance, double digit unemployment, furloughs, and a lack of water to support California agriculture and residents.  It’s been a...
]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:04:14 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1717&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rmhaydensmith@ucdavis.edu(Rose Hayden-Smith) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1717 As a U.S. historian, I can provide examples of the many ways – both positive and negative - that patriotism has been expressed at different times in our nation’s history. There are many ways that individuals and communities can express their patriotism today. Eating local foods can be one of them. Local foods are patriotic, whether you’re buying them directly from producers in your area or growing your own. They’re good for our local farmers, our economies, our health,...
]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:16:10 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1462&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rmhaydensmith@ucdavis.edu(Rose Hayden-Smith) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1462
]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:06:58 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1388&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rmhaydensmith@ucdavis.edu(Rose Hayden-Smith) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1388 The governor has released a list of state properties that might be for sale in this time of unprecendented budget crisis. On that list are a couple of fairgrounds, including the Ventura County Fairgrounds. The Ventura County Fairgrounds is actually California's 31st Agricultural District, and is under the oversight of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. You can visit that website to learn more about our Fairs and Expositions; they represent a great, and perhaps underutilized...
]]> Sat, 16 May 2009 10:30:31 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1293&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rmhaydensmith@ucdavis.edu(Rose Hayden-Smith) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1293 I’ve been pondering a lot the last three weeks, trying to think outside the box, and trying to proceed as if there is no box at all. Two weeks of conferences in a row, one the Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Conference, the second sponsored by the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. Very different conferences, but a common theme: Food Systems All the Time. At the UC-sponsored professional conference that I recently attended, I had the opportunity to hear...
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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:08:56 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=999&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rmhaydensmith@ucdavis.edu(Rose Hayden-Smith) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=999