November 2009
7 posts
To Those of You...
…who have been faithful readers or are just clicking here today….this blog is, sigh, closed. I will be beginning a new blog with much more of a farming focus, coming soon. Thanks for all the clicks and reads. Love, Sweet Pea.
October 2009
14 posts
Virtual Farming?? Why do people spend time doing... →
According to this New York Times article, people are OBSESSED with farming online.
Here is a glimpse of where Sweet Pea has been all... →
ok, this is hilarious that these are for sale on... →
Coca Si, Cocaina, No. →
This is an extremely informative and impactful video about the struggle of Bolivia’s Coca farmers…It is an extremely profitable crop that has both legal and indigenous uses, and illegal, problematic ones. Either way, Coca farmers need to grow Coca to survive.
Women's Earth Alliance →
please check out this organization. every founding principal speaks to me, and speaks to the world.
Gourmet Magazine Closes →
farewell to gourmet magazine, an actual magazine with actual articles about actual food. not just some captions and pictures and two second half baked recipes.
Fuel.
When do you have the chance to eat two heaping portions of amazing homemade lasagna with spinach and mushrooms, garlic bread, and Vermont peach crisp with Breyer’s vanilla?? (And still be kinda hungry afterwards??) When you bike 150 miles to support research efforts to cure MS. We did it!!! Pictured here: champion bikers and dear friends, along with me and my husband making out in the...
Oh Rats!! →
amazing.gross.amazing.gross
September 2009
14 posts
Tiny Baker
I’d like to leave you for the weekend with this cute and charming post by a nine year old baker extrodinaire. More on this earnest and darling girl here.
At the Cinema...
Check out this great list of food-based films. The films are all shorts made by independent film makers, touching on mostly the political side of food.
The Most Beautiful Woman In The World...
Thank you, A, for sending me this photograph, taken of First Lady Michelle Obama at the opening of the farmers market two blocks from the White House. She is so stunning and this scene is so wonderful.
School Lunch
We all remember school lunch…some of us brought it with us, some of us traded for better items, some of us bought what we wanted from the cafeteria (hello chicken patties and chocolate juniors), some of us had parents who packed our lunches with hippy food and nasty food alike, some of us bought our lunch from the chinese place across the street from school (which usually didn’t sell...
Gluten Free Peach Blondies, Brownies with Course...
Come through. Tonight. That is, if you’re in Brooklyn. Smack Mellon. Doors at 6pm.
August 2009
10 posts
click here if you please. sweet pea (me) and... →
July 2009
14 posts
Walmart is So Babylon
Check out this article. Walmart just set up a farmers market in an underserved area of Chicago on the site of a future Walmart store. Except no farmers were invited and they were just selling Walmart produce. The neighborhood deserves a real farmers market. Walmart is an insult to people’s real needs.
