//new fadeshow(IMAGES_ARRAY_NAME, slideshow_width, slideshow_height, borderwidth, delay, pause (0=no, 1=yes), optionalRandomOrder) new fadeshow(fadeimages, 450, 400, 0, 3000, 1) I hope you enjoy this slideshow we’ve put together of what we consider to be one of America’s most endearing tribes of inhabitants – the Chipmunks of California! And, I hope your imaginiation has been sparked just enough [...]

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Whether you’ve voluntarily gone vegan, or are going dairy free on your doctor’s orders, cheese may be something you discover you really miss. I grew up eating cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese sandwiches. My mother and father bought the best they could afford for we children – no Velveeta or cheeze food for us. With [...]

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Across the United States, thousands of Americans are walking out of doctors’ offices with a diagnosis of gluten intolerance. I have now heard more than one local doctor refer to this as an ‘epidemic’. If you’ve recently discovered that you’re gluten intolerant, you’re in good company but being part of a crowd is cold comfort [...]

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Are You Considering Learning To Sew? Here Are Good 10 Reasons To Do It. Can You Relate? You’re not a stock size (who is?) Your skin crawls when you touch those rubbery synthetic fabrics You have the odd notion that clothing bought in February shouldn’t have fallen apart by April – you’re all for things [...]

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Yesterday, I accomplished two important tasks: I planted a small patch of long grain rice on our farm and I read Food, Inc., the companion book to the new film that is just now opening in theaters across the U.S. As a vegan organic farmer who has read just about every book out there on [...]

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If you live in Marin County or the greater San Francisco Bay Area, chances are you’ve already heard the news that Marin officials have confessed to breaking their own pesticide laws an estimated 90 times over the past decade by spraying public areas with forbidden carcinogenic herbicides. Citizens are frightened and outraged regarding the unlawful [...]

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Just a quick post in praise of this opinion piece by David Bolling in the Sonoma Index Tribune. If you’ve been fighting the the LBAM scandal for years, months or weeks and are feeling like a parched wanderer in a desert landscape, Bolling’s piece will be your tall drink of water! It’s great to see [...]

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Someone needs to replace the ignorance bushes growing in the yards of Berkeley Code Enforcement Officers with some trees of knowledge. As I write this article, Berkeley urban farmer Asa Dodsworth is being persecuted by Officers Maurice Norrise and Gregory Daniels for having fruit trees and vegetables in his home’s front yard. While every home [...]

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me…or rather on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors who have sent a letter to California’s Secretary of Agriculture, A.G. Kawamura, begging him to hurry up and help them douse the county in poison and pesticides as the latest step in the Light Brown [...]

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