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This Bay Area native is a longtime food & wine journalist and blogger who has contributed to regional publications such as the San Jose Mercury News and its affiliates, Metro, San Francisco Chronicle, South Bay Accent, Urbanspoon and other epistles that are lucky enough not to have been killed off yet by the publishing crisis.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ea0e2509178d71552ad508c072f4c3ce?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":null,"facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"bayareabites","roles":["contributor"]},{"site":"food","roles":["contributor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Susan Hathaway | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ea0e2509178d71552ad508c072f4c3ce?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ea0e2509178d71552ad508c072f4c3ce?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/susanhathaway"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"arts","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"bayareabites_118478":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_118478","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"118478","score":null,"sort":[1498135242000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"urban-gardening-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-downtown-san-jose","title":"Urban Gardening is Alive and Well and Living in Downtown San Jose","publishDate":1498135242,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Ask any gardener: Nothing tastes so sweet as something you grew yourself, even in the big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Silicon Valley was paved over with concrete, it was the Valley of Heart’s Delight, boasting some of the world’s richest topsoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s poetic irony in the fact that some techies can’t wait to get their hands in that soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s just soothing. It’s healing,\" says PayPal cloud manager Anant Kumar. He bought a home in San Jose in 2000. He tore out the grass straight away and planted a garden. \"I started out with what was easy: pumpkins, squashes, zucchinis, tomatoes, chili peppers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anant Kumar originally hails from the big city of New Delhi, in India, but his father grew up on a farm. Bitter melons – a taste of Kumar's home – are coming soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You saute them with a few onions, maybe add a little bit of mango powder. You got to try it!\" Kumar insists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumar is keen to spread the good word about gardening. Along with several PayPal colleagues, he volunteered to build a greenhouse for a San Jose non-profit called \u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyverde.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valley Verde\u003c/a>, which helps low-income families grow their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent sunny day, the group celebrated the greenhouse’s grand opening in San Jose’s first “urban agriculture incentive zone.” What was a used car lot is now covered with raised planting beds and stacks of bagged soil. \"It looks amazing,\" Kumar gushes, \"and I think we need more of this in the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are workshops for beginners, and seedlings to replant back home. Property owner Thang Do says he does intend to develop on the land eventually, but in the meantime, he’s game to lend the land to gardeners. \"I mean, what’s not to like about this?\" he asks, rhetorically, before acknowledging, \"The city and the county take a hit on something like this because they’re giving landowners like me a property tax break.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-118498 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut.jpg\" alt='Thang Do addresses a crowd that gathered for the grand opening of the greenhouse on his property. He plans to develop after five years but is happy to let Valley Verde have the run of the place before then. Do says \"At a time when national politics is so divisive, nice to see local community come together.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thang Do addresses a crowd that gathered for the grand opening of the greenhouse on his property. He plans to develop on the land after five years, but is happy to let Valley Verde have the run of the place before then. Do says \"At a time when national politics is so divisive, nice to see local community come together.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State law \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Assembly-bill-would-extend-tax-break-to-turn-10963151.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changed in 2014\u003c/a> to incentivize landowners like Do by assessing the property value as relatively cheap farmland – not pricey downtown lots. But the concept is taking more time than anticipated to take root. It’s taken years to get counties and cities to make the necessary local rule changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s frustrating how long it takes because it seems like a no-brainer. It seems like you could just make it happen. But government is government,\" Do says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it worth the bother? Yes, says Tori Truscheit, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/SHCSLaMesaVerde/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Mesa Verde\u003c/a>, a network of home gardeners working in tandem with Valley Verde. \"Not only are they going to have beautiful vegetables, but they’re going to be connected to other people who care about where their food comes from,\" Truscheit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only four cities have the zones: San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento and San Diego. Los Angeles is working toward passing an ordinance. Unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as Santa Clara County, already offer the tax breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state law, however, expires in 2019. But urban farmers have their eye on a new \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/press-releases/ting-pushes-extension-property-tax-breaks-community-gardens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill that would extend\u003c/a> the program for another decade, hoping it makes its way to the Governor’s desk before harvest time in October.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Jose is the latest city to take advantage of a state law helping landlords lend land to urban farmers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1652276269,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":664},"headData":{"title":"Urban Gardening is Alive and Well and Living in Downtown San Jose | KQED","description":"San Jose is the latest city to take advantage of a state law helping landlords lend land to urban farmers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Urban Gardening is Alive and Well and Living in Downtown San Jose","datePublished":"2017-06-22T12:40:42.000Z","dateModified":"2022-05-11T13:37:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"118478 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=118478","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/06/22/urban-gardening-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-downtown-san-jose/","disqusTitle":"Urban Gardening is Alive and Well and Living in Downtown San Jose","source":"Gardening And Urban Farming","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/gardening-and-urban-farming/","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/06/20170621MyrowUrbanFarm.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/bayareabites/118478/urban-gardening-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-downtown-san-jose","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ask any gardener: Nothing tastes so sweet as something you grew yourself, even in the big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Silicon Valley was paved over with concrete, it was the Valley of Heart’s Delight, boasting some of the world’s richest topsoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s poetic irony in the fact that some techies can’t wait to get their hands in that soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s just soothing. It’s healing,\" says PayPal cloud manager Anant Kumar. He bought a home in San Jose in 2000. He tore out the grass straight away and planted a garden. \"I started out with what was easy: pumpkins, squashes, zucchinis, tomatoes, chili peppers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anant Kumar originally hails from the big city of New Delhi, in India, but his father grew up on a farm. Bitter melons – a taste of Kumar's home – are coming soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You saute them with a few onions, maybe add a little bit of mango powder. You got to try it!\" Kumar insists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumar is keen to spread the good word about gardening. Along with several PayPal colleagues, he volunteered to build a greenhouse for a San Jose non-profit called \u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyverde.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valley Verde\u003c/a>, which helps low-income families grow their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent sunny day, the group celebrated the greenhouse’s grand opening in San Jose’s first “urban agriculture incentive zone.” What was a used car lot is now covered with raised planting beds and stacks of bagged soil. \"It looks amazing,\" Kumar gushes, \"and I think we need more of this in the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are workshops for beginners, and seedlings to replant back home. Property owner Thang Do says he does intend to develop on the land eventually, but in the meantime, he’s game to lend the land to gardeners. \"I mean, what’s not to like about this?\" he asks, rhetorically, before acknowledging, \"The city and the county take a hit on something like this because they’re giving landowners like me a property tax break.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-118498 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut.jpg\" alt='Thang Do addresses a crowd that gathered for the grand opening of the greenhouse on his property. He plans to develop after five years but is happy to let Valley Verde have the run of the place before then. Do says \"At a time when national politics is so divisive, nice to see local community come together.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thang Do addresses a crowd that gathered for the grand opening of the greenhouse on his property. He plans to develop on the land after five years, but is happy to let Valley Verde have the run of the place before then. Do says \"At a time when national politics is so divisive, nice to see local community come together.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State law \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Assembly-bill-would-extend-tax-break-to-turn-10963151.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changed in 2014\u003c/a> to incentivize landowners like Do by assessing the property value as relatively cheap farmland – not pricey downtown lots. But the concept is taking more time than anticipated to take root. It’s taken years to get counties and cities to make the necessary local rule changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s frustrating how long it takes because it seems like a no-brainer. It seems like you could just make it happen. But government is government,\" Do says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it worth the bother? Yes, says Tori Truscheit, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/SHCSLaMesaVerde/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Mesa Verde\u003c/a>, a network of home gardeners working in tandem with Valley Verde. \"Not only are they going to have beautiful vegetables, but they’re going to be connected to other people who care about where their food comes from,\" Truscheit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only four cities have the zones: San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento and San Diego. Los Angeles is working toward passing an ordinance. Unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as Santa Clara County, already offer the tax breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state law, however, expires in 2019. But urban farmers have their eye on a new \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/press-releases/ting-pushes-extension-property-tax-breaks-community-gardens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill that would extend\u003c/a> the program for another decade, hoping it makes its way to the Governor’s desk before harvest time in October.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/118478/urban-gardening-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-downtown-san-jose","authors":["251"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_64","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_45","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34","bayareabites_265","bayareabites_358","bayareabites_91","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_17080","bayareabites_14752","bayareabites_2055"],"featImg":"bayareabites_118497","label":"source_bayareabites_118478"},"bayareabites_96697":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_96697","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"96697","score":null,"sort":[1433774248000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-matters-mark-bittmans-online-video-series-premieres-with-take-a-walk-on-the-wild-edibles-side","title":"California Matters: Mark Bittman's Online Video Series Premieres with 'Take a Walk on the Wild (Edibles) Side'","publishDate":1433774248,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>Gushing over the Meyer lemons growing in his backyard was one of the first signs that Mark Bittman was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/dining/mark-bittman-revels-in-california-produce.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling for California\u003c/a>. The celebrated food writer and New York Times columnist began what was supposed to be a semester-long stint as a visiting fellow at the \u003ca href=\"http://food.berkeley.edu/\">Berkeley Food Institute\u003c/a> in January 2015. But Bittman has decided to stay on for another academic year, at least. Besides continuing to lecture for the Food Institute, this fall he’ll have an official appointment at Berkeley’s Journalism School. He may also have an opportunity to create more programs for his new online video series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-FXGBB36Yd4xOFWSKc0Dg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, premiering today, June 8, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://markbittman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bittman\u003c/a> came up with the idea for the video series as a platform for doing what he does in most of his writing these days: plunge headlong into a vast array of food-related issues and decipher them for the public. Whether exploring injustices and innovations or unpacking science and policy, he generally does it with equal frankness and gusto. One of the most outspoken advocates for \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2014/11/michael_pollan_and_mark_bittman_s_food_policy_proposal_at_the_stone_barns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overhauling many of America’s food systems\u003c/a> (I’ve heard him referred to as the east coast’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/speakers/michael_pollan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Pollan\u003c/a>), Bittman’s rants can engender total devotion or harsh critique. Although being an on-camera host is not his usual medium, Bittman’s casual vibe and quintessential New York voice might play just as well on video as his words do on the page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each 4-7 minute episode, Bittman introduces viewers to different researchers, entrepreneurs, educators and thinkers from the University of California (UC) network who are working to better understand and improve the food we eat and the systems that support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to find people who are doing interesting things and talk to them,” says Bittman. \"I thought we could make their work more easily and widely understood. And I think we succeeded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n1PvH4B1Vo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a good way for Bittman to get to know his new home state, and probably helped tip the scales in favor of extending his stay in the Bay Area. “There’s just nothing I’d rather do than travel around California looking at food-related stuff,” says Bittman. “There are a million stories out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em>, Bittman traipses up and down the state in search of those stories. In each episode he takes viewers behind-the-scenes at a different location; like a Chinese restaurant in L.A. where he discusses cultural traditions and worker wage issues, and the test gardens and \u003ca href=\"http://casfs.ucsc.edu/about/facilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">farms of UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a>, where cutting edge research into sustainable agriculture practices is underway. “There’s this amazing 33-acre farm on an academic campus – it’s unheard of,” says Bittman, shaking his head in disbelief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he describes some of the episodes as heartrending -- like one that explores how pesticides affect neonatal health in Salinas Valley -- the series kicks off on a lighter note as Bittman heads out on a foraging mission with UC Berkeley ethnobotanist Tom Carlson and statistician Philip Stark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/F8BLU3iaLgM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went out with these guys in west Oakland in a neighborhood that doesn’t look like a park. There was stuff all over the place that you could eat,” Bittman recalls. “So you can imagine that in greener areas, if you knew what you were doing and carried a knapsack and a plastic bag, you’d never buy salad again. I’ll tell you that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began as a weed hobby (think dandelions and calendula) for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/02/05/snacking-in-between-sidewalks-mapping-abundance-of-wild-edibles-in-the-bay-areas-food-deserts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlson and Stark\u003c/a>, has now morphed into \u003ca href=\"http://forage.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an enthusiastic mission\u003c/a> to make wild edibles a more practical, popular and profitable food source. Their current work includes testing urban weeds for concentrations of heavy metals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers.jpg\" alt=\"Edible weeds found around Oakland: Calendula, vetch and plantago.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edible weeds found around Oakland: Calendula, vetch and plantago. \u003ccite>(Kristen Rasmussen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Foraging is nothing new, but it’s a fantastic opportunity,” says Bittman. “We talked to some farmers who understand that weeds are not necessarily the enemy—that they could be harvested and sold, or used to re-nutrify the soil. Look at the irony; you are using herbicides to kill something that you could be eating. You’re depriving yourself of free food and spreading the use of herbicides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another episode, Bittman travels to Hog Island in western Marin County to meet with a \u003ca href=\"http://bml.ucdavis.edu/research/faculty/tessa-hill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tessa Hill\u003c/a> of UC Davis, who is studying the impacts of ocean acidification on oysters. As CO2 levels rise, it causes the ocean’s pH levels to become increasingly acidic. “Because of the acidity, the oyster shells get thinner, grow more slowly and are more prone to early death,” Bittman explains. Although the research may yield some clues about how \u003ca href=\"https://hogislandoysters.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local oyster farmers\u003c/a> might employ new management strategies to help deal with the acidity, Bittman says he simply hopes to draw the public’s attention to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1201px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96702\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat.jpg\" alt=\"Bittman discusses oysters with UC Davis' Tessa Hill in Marshall, CA. \" width=\"1201\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat.jpg 1201w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bittman discusses oysters with UC Davis' Tessa Hill in Marshall, CA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the University of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one of the more solution-based programs, Bittman hits the lunch tables at a public school in San Francisco. Here, researchers are studying the effects of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusdfuturedining.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">district-wide initiatives\u003c/a> aimed at redesigning the school meal experience and making it more nutritious. “They’re trying to offer more choices, nicer eating spaces, outdoor and portable spaces and even grab-and-go stuff. They are just going to look at every option until they come up with a better system that they can afford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, one subject the series’ producers didn’t manage to cover in these ten episodes is one that’s most top of mind in California: the drought. Bittman says it’s on his list for the next season of programs (if there is a next season). In the meantime, you can get his take on the drought and allay any guilt you may have about eating almonds by reading one of\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/opinion/mark-bittman-fear-of-almonds.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> his recent New York Times posts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also read many of his other editorials about GMOs, diets, livestock welfare, farmworker wages and other hot topics in “\u003ca href=\"http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246578/a-bone-to-pick-by-mark-bittman-the-new-york-times-bestselling-author/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Bone to Pick\u003c/a>,” a recently released compilation of Bittman’s popular New York Times columns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the \u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em> series is regionally focused, the stories being covered seem relevant to viewers across America. As Bittman pointed out in that same editorial mentioned above, “…because such a significant fraction of our food is produced in California, problems for California agriculture are problems for all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Bittman’s life will be touched more directly and visibly by problems such as drought as he settles in for another year in the sun-scorched state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if there was anything he has been missing about New York in terms of the food. My question was met with a resounding “Nah.” After a brief pause he added, “Maybe a couple of restaurants. Maybe the excitement of having new foods appear in the summertime. But I ate better this winter in Berkeley than I do most summers in New York. It’s really just paradise here when it comes to food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to have no qualms about trading the Big Apple for a Meyer lemon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Join Mark Bittman for a live Twitter chat on June 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM PST.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96706\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-twitter-chat.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Bittman Twitter Chat\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-twitter-chat.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-twitter-chat-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Find out what’s in store as New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman hits the road in California for his new online series. Watch the first episode about foraging in the East Bay: \u003cem>Take a Walk on the Wild (Edibles) Side\u003c/em>. \r\n\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556745794,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1275},"headData":{"title":"California Matters: Mark Bittman's Online Video Series Premieres with 'Take a Walk on the Wild (Edibles) Side' | KQED","description":"Find out what’s in store as New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman hits the road in California for his new online series. 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The celebrated food writer and New York Times columnist began what was supposed to be a semester-long stint as a visiting fellow at the \u003ca href=\"http://food.berkeley.edu/\">Berkeley Food Institute\u003c/a> in January 2015. But Bittman has decided to stay on for another academic year, at least. Besides continuing to lecture for the Food Institute, this fall he’ll have an official appointment at Berkeley’s Journalism School. He may also have an opportunity to create more programs for his new online video series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-FXGBB36Yd4xOFWSKc0Dg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, premiering today, June 8, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://markbittman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bittman\u003c/a> came up with the idea for the video series as a platform for doing what he does in most of his writing these days: plunge headlong into a vast array of food-related issues and decipher them for the public. Whether exploring injustices and innovations or unpacking science and policy, he generally does it with equal frankness and gusto. One of the most outspoken advocates for \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2014/11/michael_pollan_and_mark_bittman_s_food_policy_proposal_at_the_stone_barns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overhauling many of America’s food systems\u003c/a> (I’ve heard him referred to as the east coast’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/speakers/michael_pollan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Pollan\u003c/a>), Bittman’s rants can engender total devotion or harsh critique. Although being an on-camera host is not his usual medium, Bittman’s casual vibe and quintessential New York voice might play just as well on video as his words do on the page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each 4-7 minute episode, Bittman introduces viewers to different researchers, entrepreneurs, educators and thinkers from the University of California (UC) network who are working to better understand and improve the food we eat and the systems that support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to find people who are doing interesting things and talk to them,” says Bittman. \"I thought we could make their work more easily and widely understood. And I think we succeeded.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4n1PvH4B1Vo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4n1PvH4B1Vo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a good way for Bittman to get to know his new home state, and probably helped tip the scales in favor of extending his stay in the Bay Area. “There’s just nothing I’d rather do than travel around California looking at food-related stuff,” says Bittman. “There are a million stories out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em>, Bittman traipses up and down the state in search of those stories. In each episode he takes viewers behind-the-scenes at a different location; like a Chinese restaurant in L.A. where he discusses cultural traditions and worker wage issues, and the test gardens and \u003ca href=\"http://casfs.ucsc.edu/about/facilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">farms of UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a>, where cutting edge research into sustainable agriculture practices is underway. “There’s this amazing 33-acre farm on an academic campus – it’s unheard of,” says Bittman, shaking his head in disbelief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he describes some of the episodes as heartrending -- like one that explores how pesticides affect neonatal health in Salinas Valley -- the series kicks off on a lighter note as Bittman heads out on a foraging mission with UC Berkeley ethnobotanist Tom Carlson and statistician Philip Stark.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/F8BLU3iaLgM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/F8BLU3iaLgM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“We went out with these guys in west Oakland in a neighborhood that doesn’t look like a park. There was stuff all over the place that you could eat,” Bittman recalls. “So you can imagine that in greener areas, if you knew what you were doing and carried a knapsack and a plastic bag, you’d never buy salad again. I’ll tell you that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began as a weed hobby (think dandelions and calendula) for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/02/05/snacking-in-between-sidewalks-mapping-abundance-of-wild-edibles-in-the-bay-areas-food-deserts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlson and Stark\u003c/a>, has now morphed into \u003ca href=\"http://forage.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an enthusiastic mission\u003c/a> to make wild edibles a more practical, popular and profitable food source. Their current work includes testing urban weeds for concentrations of heavy metals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers.jpg\" alt=\"Edible weeds found around Oakland: Calendula, vetch and plantago.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edible weeds found around Oakland: Calendula, vetch and plantago. \u003ccite>(Kristen Rasmussen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Foraging is nothing new, but it’s a fantastic opportunity,” says Bittman. “We talked to some farmers who understand that weeds are not necessarily the enemy—that they could be harvested and sold, or used to re-nutrify the soil. Look at the irony; you are using herbicides to kill something that you could be eating. You’re depriving yourself of free food and spreading the use of herbicides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another episode, Bittman travels to Hog Island in western Marin County to meet with a \u003ca href=\"http://bml.ucdavis.edu/research/faculty/tessa-hill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tessa Hill\u003c/a> of UC Davis, who is studying the impacts of ocean acidification on oysters. As CO2 levels rise, it causes the ocean’s pH levels to become increasingly acidic. “Because of the acidity, the oyster shells get thinner, grow more slowly and are more prone to early death,” Bittman explains. Although the research may yield some clues about how \u003ca href=\"https://hogislandoysters.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local oyster farmers\u003c/a> might employ new management strategies to help deal with the acidity, Bittman says he simply hopes to draw the public’s attention to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1201px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96702\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat.jpg\" alt=\"Bittman discusses oysters with UC Davis' Tessa Hill in Marshall, CA. \" width=\"1201\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat.jpg 1201w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bittman discusses oysters with UC Davis' Tessa Hill in Marshall, CA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the University of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one of the more solution-based programs, Bittman hits the lunch tables at a public school in San Francisco. Here, researchers are studying the effects of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusdfuturedining.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">district-wide initiatives\u003c/a> aimed at redesigning the school meal experience and making it more nutritious. “They’re trying to offer more choices, nicer eating spaces, outdoor and portable spaces and even grab-and-go stuff. They are just going to look at every option until they come up with a better system that they can afford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, one subject the series’ producers didn’t manage to cover in these ten episodes is one that’s most top of mind in California: the drought. Bittman says it’s on his list for the next season of programs (if there is a next season). In the meantime, you can get his take on the drought and allay any guilt you may have about eating almonds by reading one of\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/opinion/mark-bittman-fear-of-almonds.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> his recent New York Times posts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also read many of his other editorials about GMOs, diets, livestock welfare, farmworker wages and other hot topics in “\u003ca href=\"http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246578/a-bone-to-pick-by-mark-bittman-the-new-york-times-bestselling-author/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Bone to Pick\u003c/a>,” a recently released compilation of Bittman’s popular New York Times columns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the \u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em> series is regionally focused, the stories being covered seem relevant to viewers across America. As Bittman pointed out in that same editorial mentioned above, “…because such a significant fraction of our food is produced in California, problems for California agriculture are problems for all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Bittman’s life will be touched more directly and visibly by problems such as drought as he settles in for another year in the sun-scorched state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if there was anything he has been missing about New York in terms of the food. My question was met with a resounding “Nah.” After a brief pause he added, “Maybe a couple of restaurants. Maybe the excitement of having new foods appear in the summertime. But I ate better this winter in Berkeley than I do most summers in New York. It’s really just paradise here when it comes to food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to have no qualms about trading the Big Apple for a Meyer lemon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Join Mark Bittman for a live Twitter chat on June 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM PST.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96706\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-twitter-chat.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Bittman Twitter Chat\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-twitter-chat.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-twitter-chat-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/96697/california-matters-mark-bittmans-online-video-series-premieres-with-take-a-walk-on-the-wild-edibles-side","authors":["5412"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_8770","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_2090","bayareabites_1593","bayareabites_316"],"tags":["bayareabites_2055"],"featImg":"bayareabites_96700","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_96325":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_96325","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"96325","score":null,"sort":[1432238433000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"urban-food-forests-make-fruit-free-for-the-picking","title":"Urban Food Forests Make Fruit Free For The Picking","publishDate":1432238433,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>To discover the new frontier of urban farming, you'll have to look up — and look sharp — for hanging fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban orchards are dropping everything from apples to persimmons to avocados on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/02/29/147668557/seattles-first-urban-food-forest-will-be-free-to-forage\">Seattle\u003c/a>, Bloomington, Ind., \u003ca href=\"http://www.bostontreeparty.org/about/party/\">Boston\u003c/a>, Toronto, San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://fallenfruit.org/projects/urbanfruittrails/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and other North American cities. Groups like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.portlandfruit.org/\">Portland Fruit Tree Project\u003c/a> advocate for public access to existing fruit trees so that people can glean crops that would otherwise go uneaten — an idea some \u003ca href=\"https://americanorchard.wordpress.com/tag/urban-orchards/\">are calling\u003c/a> radical. Other groups are more interested in planting new groves of fruit trees on previously fallow city land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruit trees produce food, but also provide shade, keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, improve water quality and may even \u003ca href=\"http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/40701\">deter crime\u003c/a>. Advocates say they also have a longer lasting impact on communities than vegetable beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you plant lettuce, you produce food for today, which is great, but when you plant a tree, you're feeding people tomorrow,\" says Nina Beth Cardin, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baltimoreorchard.org/\">Baltimore Orchard Project\u003c/a>, a program of the Baltimore non-profit \u003ca href=\"http://civicworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civic Works\u003c/a>. The orchard project has planted thousands of apple, serviceberry, pawpaw, fig and pear trees on public and private land around Baltimore. City officials, striving to meet a \u003ca href=\"http://www.treebaltimore.org/about/\">goal\u003c/a> of increasing the city's tree canopy, have been providing starter trees to Cardin's group, which in turn helps churches and schools plant and learn to maintain fruit trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Philadelphia, fruit trees have a special knack for bringing people together, says Phil Forsyth, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.phillyorchards.org/\">Philadelphia Orchard Project\u003c/a>. Since a large tree takes up space, communities are more likely to treat it as a public resource, with the crop harvested and shared among many people, Forsyth says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1450px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54.jpg\" alt=\"A morning's berry harvest from West Philadelphia's Ogden Orchard includes raspberries, gooseberries, currants, goumis and mulberri\" width=\"1450\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54.jpg 1450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-400x239.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-800x478.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-1440x861.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-1180x706.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-960x574.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A morning's berry harvest from West Philadelphia's Ogden Orchard includes raspberries, gooseberries, currants, goumis and mulberri \u003ccite>(Philadelphia Orchard Project )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forsyth's organization, founded in 2007, has helped plant nearly 40 orchards in and around Philadelphia and maintains a nursery stocked with small potted figs, cherries, mulberries and more. The organization provides these young trees to groups and individuals who apply for assistance to plant an orchard -- and meet some basic criteria. Forsyth says applicants must have spaces with sufficient sunlight and soil, and must also have long-term property leases or ownership of their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While fruit orchards have some advantages over other urban agriculture initiatives, they have their own disadvantages as well. Trees can be relatively expensive, and tricky to plant. While a packet of seeds sufficient to fill a veggie bed may run a few bucks, a single fruit tree sapling may go for $30 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, while vegetable gardens can be started by, at minimum, tossing a handful of seeds over the soil, most trees must be started by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/08/03/337164041/the-gift-of-graft-new-york-artists-tree-to-grow-40-kinds-of-fruit\">grafting\u003c/a> a branch of a desired variety onto an existing tree, often referred to as rootstock. With grafting, it's possible to grow many varieties of fruit on a single tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial nurseries generally handle the relatively technical work of tree propagation and sell trees several years old in small pots. (Figs are an anomaly and may be propagated very easily by rooting small branch cutting in the earth, with no grafting required.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1282px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96328\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7.jpg\" alt=\"Pears ripen on the tree at the Awbury Arboretum Food Forest, one of the 48 sites of the Philadelphia Orchard Project.\" width=\"1282\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7.jpg 1282w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pears ripen on the tree at the Awbury Arboretum Food Forest, one of the 48 sites of the Philadelphia Orchard Project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Philadelphia Orchard Project )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once they are planted and their roots have set in the soil, trees and vines may be relatively self-sufficient and require far less maintenance work than vegetable gardens. However, cold winters can kill fruit trees — especially those adapted to warm climates. In the Midwest and the Eastern U.S., fig trees, for one, often get bundled up for the winter. An effective method, Forsyth says, is to wrap a thick insulating layer of autumn leaves around the tree with chicken wire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such measures are unnecessary in the mild Mediterranean climate of San Francisco, where a garbage dump was cleared and turned into a four-acre farm and orchard in the mid 1990s on the relatively warm, east side of the city, near the Bernal Heights neighborhood. Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.alemanyfarm.org/history/\">Alemany Farm\u003c/a> is largely devoted to artichokes, lettuce and strawberries. But the biggest draw is the fruit trees. Subtropical species, including loquats, figs, pineapple guavas and avocados, thrive on the farm, and the public is welcome to come and pick the fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alemany also boasts a vineyard of 350 Pinot Noir vines, which Elly Hartshorn planted in 2013 as part of her winemaking project, \u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborhoodvineyards.org/\">Neighborhood Vineyards\u003c/a>. The San Francisco vines should produce their first crop this year, Hartshorn tells The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a city where I might not have a house of my own, a vineyard is a space where I can establish long-term roots,\" says Hartshorn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the labor required to establish and maintain fruit trees and vines means it's important to ensure that the sites are protected from development. Cardin says her group wants a guarantee that the land will not be built on for at least 20 years before they provide orchard planting assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/09/347141038/tax-breaks-may-turn-san-franciscos-vacant-lots-into-urban-farms\">city program\u003c/a> that gives tax breaks to landowners who turn their property over to farming ventures requires they do so for at least five years — which Hartshorn notes is not enough time to make a vineyard, or an orchard, worth the effort of planting. Many fruit trees don't bear a substantial crop until they're several years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, they may provide habitat for birds and insects and shade for people and animals. Tree roots help thwart erosion, and the trees themselves grow by drawing carbon from the atmosphere, and producing oxygen. Trees' beneficial effects on air quality, and their potential for helping curb climate change, are a reason that city governments are now encouraging landowners to plant them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardin says her hope is that, by planting even a few trees, a community will make the choice to keep that piece of land undeveloped for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trees have a true spiritual element,\" says Cardin. \"The act of gardening itself has a spiritual value, but not the lettuce itself. It's the presence of the tree, the constancy of the tree, that's so special.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alastair Bland is a freelance writer based in San Francisco who covers food, agriculture and the environment.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Urban orchards are dropping everything from apples to avocados on Seattle, Bloomington, Ind., Boston and several other cities. Advocates say orchards can have longer lasting impact than gardens.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556739012,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1065},"headData":{"title":"Urban Food Forests Make Fruit Free For The Picking | KQED","description":"Urban orchards are dropping everything from apples to avocados on Seattle, Bloomington, Ind., Boston and several other cities. 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Groups like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.portlandfruit.org/\">Portland Fruit Tree Project\u003c/a> advocate for public access to existing fruit trees so that people can glean crops that would otherwise go uneaten — an idea some \u003ca href=\"https://americanorchard.wordpress.com/tag/urban-orchards/\">are calling\u003c/a> radical. Other groups are more interested in planting new groves of fruit trees on previously fallow city land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruit trees produce food, but also provide shade, keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, improve water quality and may even \u003ca href=\"http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/40701\">deter crime\u003c/a>. Advocates say they also have a longer lasting impact on communities than vegetable beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you plant lettuce, you produce food for today, which is great, but when you plant a tree, you're feeding people tomorrow,\" says Nina Beth Cardin, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baltimoreorchard.org/\">Baltimore Orchard Project\u003c/a>, a program of the Baltimore non-profit \u003ca href=\"http://civicworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civic Works\u003c/a>. The orchard project has planted thousands of apple, serviceberry, pawpaw, fig and pear trees on public and private land around Baltimore. City officials, striving to meet a \u003ca href=\"http://www.treebaltimore.org/about/\">goal\u003c/a> of increasing the city's tree canopy, have been providing starter trees to Cardin's group, which in turn helps churches and schools plant and learn to maintain fruit trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Philadelphia, fruit trees have a special knack for bringing people together, says Phil Forsyth, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.phillyorchards.org/\">Philadelphia Orchard Project\u003c/a>. Since a large tree takes up space, communities are more likely to treat it as a public resource, with the crop harvested and shared among many people, Forsyth says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1450px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54.jpg\" alt=\"A morning's berry harvest from West Philadelphia's Ogden Orchard includes raspberries, gooseberries, currants, goumis and mulberri\" width=\"1450\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54.jpg 1450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-400x239.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-800x478.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-1440x861.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-1180x706.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/ogden-berries-2_custom-fc0e4d62a96743b00476297011b9871190cf4e54-960x574.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A morning's berry harvest from West Philadelphia's Ogden Orchard includes raspberries, gooseberries, currants, goumis and mulberri \u003ccite>(Philadelphia Orchard Project )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forsyth's organization, founded in 2007, has helped plant nearly 40 orchards in and around Philadelphia and maintains a nursery stocked with small potted figs, cherries, mulberries and more. The organization provides these young trees to groups and individuals who apply for assistance to plant an orchard -- and meet some basic criteria. Forsyth says applicants must have spaces with sufficient sunlight and soil, and must also have long-term property leases or ownership of their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While fruit orchards have some advantages over other urban agriculture initiatives, they have their own disadvantages as well. Trees can be relatively expensive, and tricky to plant. While a packet of seeds sufficient to fill a veggie bed may run a few bucks, a single fruit tree sapling may go for $30 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, while vegetable gardens can be started by, at minimum, tossing a handful of seeds over the soil, most trees must be started by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/08/03/337164041/the-gift-of-graft-new-york-artists-tree-to-grow-40-kinds-of-fruit\">grafting\u003c/a> a branch of a desired variety onto an existing tree, often referred to as rootstock. With grafting, it's possible to grow many varieties of fruit on a single tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial nurseries generally handle the relatively technical work of tree propagation and sell trees several years old in small pots. (Figs are an anomaly and may be propagated very easily by rooting small branch cutting in the earth, with no grafting required.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1282px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96328\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7.jpg\" alt=\"Pears ripen on the tree at the Awbury Arboretum Food Forest, one of the 48 sites of the Philadelphia Orchard Project.\" width=\"1282\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7.jpg 1282w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/awbury-pears-1_custom-69221010a7a074de7b3a52ae9abbdcffcb1a0eb7-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pears ripen on the tree at the Awbury Arboretum Food Forest, one of the 48 sites of the Philadelphia Orchard Project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Philadelphia Orchard Project )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once they are planted and their roots have set in the soil, trees and vines may be relatively self-sufficient and require far less maintenance work than vegetable gardens. However, cold winters can kill fruit trees — especially those adapted to warm climates. In the Midwest and the Eastern U.S., fig trees, for one, often get bundled up for the winter. An effective method, Forsyth says, is to wrap a thick insulating layer of autumn leaves around the tree with chicken wire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such measures are unnecessary in the mild Mediterranean climate of San Francisco, where a garbage dump was cleared and turned into a four-acre farm and orchard in the mid 1990s on the relatively warm, east side of the city, near the Bernal Heights neighborhood. Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.alemanyfarm.org/history/\">Alemany Farm\u003c/a> is largely devoted to artichokes, lettuce and strawberries. But the biggest draw is the fruit trees. Subtropical species, including loquats, figs, pineapple guavas and avocados, thrive on the farm, and the public is welcome to come and pick the fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alemany also boasts a vineyard of 350 Pinot Noir vines, which Elly Hartshorn planted in 2013 as part of her winemaking project, \u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborhoodvineyards.org/\">Neighborhood Vineyards\u003c/a>. The San Francisco vines should produce their first crop this year, Hartshorn tells The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a city where I might not have a house of my own, a vineyard is a space where I can establish long-term roots,\" says Hartshorn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the labor required to establish and maintain fruit trees and vines means it's important to ensure that the sites are protected from development. Cardin says her group wants a guarantee that the land will not be built on for at least 20 years before they provide orchard planting assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/09/347141038/tax-breaks-may-turn-san-franciscos-vacant-lots-into-urban-farms\">city program\u003c/a> that gives tax breaks to landowners who turn their property over to farming ventures requires they do so for at least five years — which Hartshorn notes is not enough time to make a vineyard, or an orchard, worth the effort of planting. Many fruit trees don't bear a substantial crop until they're several years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, they may provide habitat for birds and insects and shade for people and animals. Tree roots help thwart erosion, and the trees themselves grow by drawing carbon from the atmosphere, and producing oxygen. Trees' beneficial effects on air quality, and their potential for helping curb climate change, are a reason that city governments are now encouraging landowners to plant them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardin says her hope is that, by planting even a few trees, a community will make the choice to keep that piece of land undeveloped for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trees have a true spiritual element,\" says Cardin. \"The act of gardening itself has a spiritual value, but not the lettuce itself. It's the presence of the tree, the constancy of the tree, that's so special.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alastair Bland is a freelance writer based in San Francisco who covers food, agriculture and the environment.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/96325/urban-food-forests-make-fruit-free-for-the-picking","authors":["byline_bayareabites_96325"],"categories":["bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_14775","bayareabites_449","bayareabites_2055"],"featImg":"bayareabites_96327","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_96287":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_96287","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"96287","score":null,"sort":[1432065628000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"urban-farmers-say-its-time-they-got-their-own-research-farms","title":"Urban Farmers Say It's Time They Got Their Own Research Farms","publishDate":1432065628,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>About 80 percent of Americans now live in urban areas, and more and more of us are growing food in cities as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where's an urban farmer to turn for \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/04/28/402556821/how-newbie-gardeners-can-safely-grow-food-on-urban-land\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a soil test\u003c/a> or when pests infiltrate the fruit orchard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, they can turn to institutions that have been serving farmers in rural areas for more than 150 years: \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/07/05/156301146/land-grant-universities-and-future-of-agriculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">land-grant colleges and universities\u003c/a>. From Cornell University to the University of Florida to Texas A&M, land grants dispense practical advice to farmers and hobby gardeners across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agricultural arms of these universities have historically focused on regions far from cities where the majority of our food is still grown. But their research on crop varieties, soil quality and pest resistance is just as relevant — and now in high demand — inside the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just ask Mchezaji \"Che\" Axum, who runs \u003ca href=\"http://udc-causes.blogspot.com/2014/06/all-about-muirkirk-farm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a research farm\u003c/a> for the University of the District of Columbia, the only land-grant university in the country with an exclusively urban focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the central questions of urban agriculture is how to grow more food in less space. And so, instead of vast fields testing dozens of varieties of wheat, Axum's research farm has raised beds, narrow hoop houses and even a shipping container. He gives growers advice on where to buy decent soil or how to compost their own, in case the land they plan to grow on has a seedy industrial past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says urban farmers aren't looking to grow one crop for a commodity market, but enough crops to replace a trip to the grocery store or to fill a small farm box for customers. They need to know a little about a lot of varieties in order to make the most of small growing spaces. And, often, it's been a generation or two since anyone in their family has lived on a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96289\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/dsc_0343_slide-a1893d1b422dbe02026b4d8041276ee49ff644b7-e1432056514157.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of several projects wait for spring in a hoop house at the farm this past winter. The blue pools at the end have grown fish in the past and beds are being transitioned from fall plants to spring.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of several projects wait for spring in a hoop house at the farm this past winter. The blue pools at the end have grown fish in the past and beds are being transitioned from fall plants to spring. \u003ccite>(Whitney Pipkin for NPR )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As interest in farming in the nation's capital has evolved, so has the 143-acre farm in Beltsville, MD. And it's serving as an example to other land-grants looking to cater to city farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clear that urban settings, given how many people live there, still have an important role to play in food security and production,\" says Sabine O'Hara, director of UDC's land-grant programs. \"So that's how we've positioned the farm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UDC farm serves as kind of a demonstration of the different ways agriculture can serve urban communities. There are apple orchards that supply area food pantries and a shipping container filled with fish that makes food and fertilizer. The farm also has greenhouses filled with seedlings of specialty crops such as African eggplant and an omega-3-rich South American plant called waterleaf cultivated with immigrant communities in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axum, a trained agronomist, also has all kinds of research projects underway — looking at the nutrient density of crops and increasing their yield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They focus on some of the vital challenges of the urban setting: climate change, food security, hunger, obesity prevention,\" says Ahlishia Shipley, social science specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's \u003ca href=\"http://nifa.usda.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institute of Food and Agriculture\u003c/a>, which helps fund land-grant programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she says, the urban extension's biggest challenge is getting the word out \"that you're there to help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York City, for example, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cce.cornell.edu/Pages/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornell University's Cooperative Extension\u003c/a> has one staff member for every 160,000 residents and tries to \"make sure that all New York residents benefit from Cornell's research,\" says Jennifer Tiffany, executive director of the college's city-based outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York, the Cornell extension office works alongside dozens of other organizations that add to its work by writing prescriptions for fruits and vegetables that can then be used at nearby farmers markets. Instead of visiting individual farms to offer growers advice, as staff might in a rural setting, Tiffany says her program leads instructional tours that take almost 100 people through an indoor hydroponics facility, showing them just how many calories of food can be grown inside the city buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though her university has been catering extension programs to the city's nearly 8.5 million residents for some time, other states are just beginning to see urban agriculture reach a critical mass. Texas A&M University is gearing more of its land-grant programs toward the booming Dallas-Fort Worth region, where a farming workshop can draw as many as 4,000 people, Shipley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As other universities consider their urban audiences, they could take cues from the only land grant with an entirely urban charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axum currently is experimenting with crops that specifically meet nutritional needs of D.C. residents with HIV and AIDS. He works alongside local farmers to help them troubleshoot issues throughout the growing season, demonstrating nearly every growing practice they can imagine on the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm also serves as home base to the land grant's chapter of the iconic \u003ca href=\"http://www.udc.edu/college_of_urban_agriculture_and_environmental_studies/master_gardening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Master Gardener Program\u003c/a>, a national program that trains gardeners in all 50 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D.C. participants, Axum says, \"have homes and yards and balconies and they want to learn to grow food. Then they become available as resources for other growers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Master Gardener Program has trained more than 400 D.C. residents since it was revitalized in 2002. Along with Axum, those urban gardening pros are ready and willing to share their expertise with beginners.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Whitney Pipkin is a freelance journalist writing about food, farms and the environment from Alexandria, Va. She also is staff writer for the \u003ca href=\"http://bayjournal.com\">Chesapeake Bay Journal\u003c/a> and blogs at \u003ca href=\"http://ThinkAboutEat.com\">ThinkAboutEat.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The University of the District of Columbia is the one land-grant university in the U.S. with an urban focus. 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From Cornell University to the University of Florida to Texas A&M, land grants dispense practical advice to farmers and hobby gardeners across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agricultural arms of these universities have historically focused on regions far from cities where the majority of our food is still grown. But their research on crop varieties, soil quality and pest resistance is just as relevant — and now in high demand — inside the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just ask Mchezaji \"Che\" Axum, who runs \u003ca href=\"http://udc-causes.blogspot.com/2014/06/all-about-muirkirk-farm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a research farm\u003c/a> for the University of the District of Columbia, the only land-grant university in the country with an exclusively urban focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the central questions of urban agriculture is how to grow more food in less space. And so, instead of vast fields testing dozens of varieties of wheat, Axum's research farm has raised beds, narrow hoop houses and even a shipping container. He gives growers advice on where to buy decent soil or how to compost their own, in case the land they plan to grow on has a seedy industrial past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says urban farmers aren't looking to grow one crop for a commodity market, but enough crops to replace a trip to the grocery store or to fill a small farm box for customers. They need to know a little about a lot of varieties in order to make the most of small growing spaces. And, often, it's been a generation or two since anyone in their family has lived on a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96289\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/dsc_0343_slide-a1893d1b422dbe02026b4d8041276ee49ff644b7-e1432056514157.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of several projects wait for spring in a hoop house at the farm this past winter. The blue pools at the end have grown fish in the past and beds are being transitioned from fall plants to spring.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of several projects wait for spring in a hoop house at the farm this past winter. The blue pools at the end have grown fish in the past and beds are being transitioned from fall plants to spring. \u003ccite>(Whitney Pipkin for NPR )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As interest in farming in the nation's capital has evolved, so has the 143-acre farm in Beltsville, MD. And it's serving as an example to other land-grants looking to cater to city farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clear that urban settings, given how many people live there, still have an important role to play in food security and production,\" says Sabine O'Hara, director of UDC's land-grant programs. \"So that's how we've positioned the farm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UDC farm serves as kind of a demonstration of the different ways agriculture can serve urban communities. There are apple orchards that supply area food pantries and a shipping container filled with fish that makes food and fertilizer. The farm also has greenhouses filled with seedlings of specialty crops such as African eggplant and an omega-3-rich South American plant called waterleaf cultivated with immigrant communities in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axum, a trained agronomist, also has all kinds of research projects underway — looking at the nutrient density of crops and increasing their yield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They focus on some of the vital challenges of the urban setting: climate change, food security, hunger, obesity prevention,\" says Ahlishia Shipley, social science specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's \u003ca href=\"http://nifa.usda.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institute of Food and Agriculture\u003c/a>, which helps fund land-grant programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she says, the urban extension's biggest challenge is getting the word out \"that you're there to help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York City, for example, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cce.cornell.edu/Pages/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornell University's Cooperative Extension\u003c/a> has one staff member for every 160,000 residents and tries to \"make sure that all New York residents benefit from Cornell's research,\" says Jennifer Tiffany, executive director of the college's city-based outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York, the Cornell extension office works alongside dozens of other organizations that add to its work by writing prescriptions for fruits and vegetables that can then be used at nearby farmers markets. Instead of visiting individual farms to offer growers advice, as staff might in a rural setting, Tiffany says her program leads instructional tours that take almost 100 people through an indoor hydroponics facility, showing them just how many calories of food can be grown inside the city buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though her university has been catering extension programs to the city's nearly 8.5 million residents for some time, other states are just beginning to see urban agriculture reach a critical mass. Texas A&M University is gearing more of its land-grant programs toward the booming Dallas-Fort Worth region, where a farming workshop can draw as many as 4,000 people, Shipley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As other universities consider their urban audiences, they could take cues from the only land grant with an entirely urban charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Axum currently is experimenting with crops that specifically meet nutritional needs of D.C. residents with HIV and AIDS. He works alongside local farmers to help them troubleshoot issues throughout the growing season, demonstrating nearly every growing practice they can imagine on the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm also serves as home base to the land grant's chapter of the iconic \u003ca href=\"http://www.udc.edu/college_of_urban_agriculture_and_environmental_studies/master_gardening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Master Gardener Program\u003c/a>, a national program that trains gardeners in all 50 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D.C. participants, Axum says, \"have homes and yards and balconies and they want to learn to grow food. Then they become available as resources for other growers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Master Gardener Program has trained more than 400 D.C. residents since it was revitalized in 2002. Along with Axum, those urban gardening pros are ready and willing to share their expertise with beginners.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Whitney Pipkin is a freelance journalist writing about food, farms and the environment from Alexandria, Va. She also is staff writer for the \u003ca href=\"http://bayjournal.com\">Chesapeake Bay Journal\u003c/a> and blogs at \u003ca href=\"http://ThinkAboutEat.com\">ThinkAboutEat.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/96287/urban-farmers-say-its-time-they-got-their-own-research-farms","authors":["byline_bayareabites_96287"],"categories":["bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_358","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_14775","bayareabites_11497","bayareabites_2055"],"featImg":"bayareabites_96288","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_96267":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_96267","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"96267","score":null,"sort":[1432053036000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-mulberry-guy-brings-sweat-and-passion-to-second-career-as-a-suburban-farmer","title":"The 'Mulberry Guy' Brings Sweat and Passion to Second Career as Suburban Farmer","publishDate":1432053036,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>Kevin Lynch -- aka, \"The Mulberry Guy\" -- is probably the most truly local grower selling his fruit at a Bay Area farmers market. It takes him just seven minutes to drive the two miles from his suburban Palo Alto \"farm\" in his street-legal \u003ca href=\"http://www.polaris.com/en-us/gem-electric-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electric golf cart\u003c/a> (called, naturally, MulberryMobile) to the town's Saturday \u003ca href=\"http://pafarmersmarket.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">farmers market\u003c/a>. Once there, the lanky vendor sells mulberry jam, mulberry tea bags, mulberry lip balm and a variety of other fruit lovingly cultivated in the yard surrounding his \u003ca href=\"http://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/wonderful-world-eichler-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eichler\u003c/a> in a quiet, family-oriented neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96271\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber.jpg\" alt=\"These one-to-two-inch-long mulberries are the Illinois Everbearing variety and are juicy with a citrus overtone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1286\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-1440x965.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These one-to-two-inch-long mulberries are the Illinois Everbearing variety and are juicy with a citrus overtone. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lynch's delicious, consistently sweet, complexly flavored fruit is a hit with foodies seeking new tasting experiences, but just about anyone can appreciate the candy-like fruit. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/mulberry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mulberry\u003c/a> isn't actually a berry. It's a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drupe\u003c/a>, in which aggregate fruits grow into long formations clustered around a mild-flavored, soft stem. Whatever its genus, Lynch's deep purple produce is quite habit forming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/mulberries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wonderfully tasty fruit\u003c/a>,\" Lynch says. \"Every year, when they become ripe again, we gush over our first bites.\" As do his customers, who now know they need to arrive early to snap up a portion of his farm's small output.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major difference between The Mulberry Guy and other farmers is in the objective. Lynch and his Shanghai-born wife, Monica, aren't in it for the money, but rather as a summer avocation for the two Palo Alto teachers. Their backyard business is alternate employment for the non-teaching months. \"Mulberries just happen to ripen steadily over the entire summer,\" Lynch notes. \"It's a perfect match.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96272\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking.jpg\" alt=\"Local middle-school science teacher Kevin Lynch picks mulberries as the season begins at his suburban farm in Palo Alto.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-400x603.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-800x1206.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-1440x2171.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-1180x1779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-960x1448.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local middle-school science teacher Kevin Lynch picks mulberries as the season begins at his suburban farm in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This suburban farm is also a way to engage the couple's two sons, Osmanthus (Osy), 13, and Halo, 11, in an absorbing family project with rich side benefits. Lynch admits this is a break-even enterprise, but one that has expanded the family's horizons. \"We have so many new friends thanks to the mulberry,\" Lynch says. \"We've met really wonderful families,\" between weekly summer appearances at the farmers market and relationships forged with local chefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been allowed behind the scenes at a Michelin-starred restaurant; seen the way other local chefs take pride in cooking from true local sources; learned the interesting supply-side politics of the farmers market world and gained a greater respect for the true farmers -- the ones who do this for a living year round,\" Lynch explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lynches had no clue how much they would reap from growing mulberries when they backed into the project, which began with re-landscaping their yard a decade-plus ago. \"We ordered a large variety of interesting edibles, none of which we'd ever tasted,\" Lynch recalls. \"The mulberry was an epiphany and we simply bought more -- maybe over-bought! The idea to sell them was part in reaction to abundance and part brainstorm in that we could set up our young sons with instant summer employment some day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96273\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew.jpg\" alt=\"Monica Lynch, a second- and third-grade teacher in Palo Alto, gets picking help from sons Osy, left, and Halo, right. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica Lynch, a second- and third-grade teacher in Palo Alto, gets picking help from sons Osy, left, and Halo, right. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Left to their own devices, mulberry trees -- drought-hardy, low-fuss fruit producers -- will each grow to 30 feet tall and 35 feet wide. However, the un-irrigated mulberry orchard in the family's small back yard has four tight rows of trees that have been carefully pruned by Lynch in what he calls \"an unnatural arrangement.\" His 27-plus trees come in four-plus varieties, but are not alone on the petite property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've planted just about every inch of our 8,000-square-foot lot that's not house and walkway,\" Lynch says. \"People are usually surprised by how small our place is. We go for height and planar form. That being said, we have very little sun left these days to grow things like veggies. We have figs, plums, apricots, oranges, limes, lemons, pears, blackberries, raspberries, Nanking cherries, cornelian cherries, elderberries, serviceberries, marionberries, cherries, pomegranates, pluots, loquats, hundreds of daffodils underplanting all of it, and we host a beehive for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/uvasgoldapiary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvas Gold Apiary\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in his seventh year as a market vendor, Lynch laughs when asked if farming is in his blood. Growing up in Southern California, \"I was a total L.A. kid,\" he says. \"We had lawns, like everybody. My parents are just baffled by where all the farming came from.\" In fact, the senior Lynches have never been to a farmers market so they'll be rectifying that when they visit their son and his family this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96274\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries.jpg\" alt=\"The longer Pakistan variety of mulberry can go to five inches and is toothsome, less moist and offers rounded flavors with hints of banana and apple.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-1440x1133.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-1180x929.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-960x756.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The longer Pakistan variety of mulberry can go to five inches and is toothsome, less moist and offers rounded flavors with hints of banana and apple. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As their passion project has expanded, Lynch and his wife have created new products to bring to the farmers market. With their stall only operating once a week, the Lynches began producing mulberry jam using some of the less-than-cosmetically-perfect fruit left over from what goes to market or is bought up by their restaurant clients, which currently include \u003ca href=\"http://www.pampaspaloalto.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pampas\u003c/a> in Palo Alto, \u003ca href=\"http://www.maderasandhill.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madera\u003c/a> in Menlo Park and \u003ca href=\"http://www.quattrorestaurant.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quattro\u003c/a> at the Four Seasons in East Palo Alto. \"It's made from just three ingredients -- fruit, honey and lemon -- all grown in our yard. Not a lot of people can say that,\" Lynch states proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea.jpg\" alt=\"In order to utilize more of the Lynch family's yard full of mulberry trees, Monica has branched out to mulberry jam and tea, drying the leaves in her Palo Alto kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-400x543.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-800x1085.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-1440x1953.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-1180x1600.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-960x1302.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In order to utilize more of the Lynch family's yard full of mulberry trees, Monica has branched out to mulberry jam and tea, drying the leaves in her Palo Alto kitchen. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The environmentally minded couple are also utilizing other parts of the mulberry plant. A recent project by Monica involves drying the leaves for mulberry/mint tea, which is caffeine free and beneficial in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mulberrytea.org/benefits/mulberry-tea-benefits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treating various ailments\u003c/a> such as diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. She has also begun using the deeply colored fruit for natural, organic lip balm. \"It has a little color -- my favorite -- purple,\" she says, pointing to her pale plum outfit and laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Lynch family appears boundlessly energetic, a plan for how to utilize yet another part of their mulberry orchard in the far-off future -- when they might slow down -- has presented itself. Says Lynch, \"I have a customer at the farmers market who plays the lute and he says if I chop down the mulberry trees, the wood is perfect for \u003ca href=\"http://www.ehow.com/info_8434836_uses-mulberry-wood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making guitars\u003c/a>. We have a market at the end of the line!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit The Mulberry Guy at the Palo Alto downtown farmers market - Saturdays, 8am-1pm Gilman St. & Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto. Visit the website at \u003ca href=\"http://themulberryguy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">themulberryguy.com\u003c/a> or find their shop on Etsy at \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/shop/MulberryJamAndTea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MulberryJamAndTea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The most hyper-local grower in the Bay Area must surely be Kevin Lynch, \"The Mulberry Guy,\" who travels all of two miles from his suburban micro-farm (otherwise known as his backyard) to the downtown Palo Alto farmers market. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556744858,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":1162},"headData":{"title":"The 'Mulberry Guy' Brings Sweat and Passion to Second Career as Suburban Farmer | KQED","description":"The most hyper-local grower in the Bay Area must surely be Kevin Lynch, "The Mulberry Guy," who travels all of two miles from his suburban micro-farm (otherwise known as his backyard) to the downtown Palo Alto farmers market. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The 'Mulberry Guy' Brings Sweat and Passion to Second Career as Suburban Farmer","datePublished":"2015-05-19T16:30:36.000Z","dateModified":"2019-05-01T21:07:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"96267 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=96267","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/05/19/the-mulberry-guy-brings-sweat-and-passion-to-second-career-as-a-suburban-farmer/","disqusTitle":"The 'Mulberry Guy' Brings Sweat and Passion to Second Career as Suburban Farmer","path":"/bayareabites/96267/the-mulberry-guy-brings-sweat-and-passion-to-second-career-as-a-suburban-farmer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Kevin Lynch -- aka, \"The Mulberry Guy\" -- is probably the most truly local grower selling his fruit at a Bay Area farmers market. It takes him just seven minutes to drive the two miles from his suburban Palo Alto \"farm\" in his street-legal \u003ca href=\"http://www.polaris.com/en-us/gem-electric-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electric golf cart\u003c/a> (called, naturally, MulberryMobile) to the town's Saturday \u003ca href=\"http://pafarmersmarket.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">farmers market\u003c/a>. Once there, the lanky vendor sells mulberry jam, mulberry tea bags, mulberry lip balm and a variety of other fruit lovingly cultivated in the yard surrounding his \u003ca href=\"http://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/wonderful-world-eichler-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eichler\u003c/a> in a quiet, family-oriented neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96271\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber.jpg\" alt=\"These one-to-two-inch-long mulberries are the Illinois Everbearing variety and are juicy with a citrus overtone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1286\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-1440x965.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Illinois-Everbearing-mulber-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These one-to-two-inch-long mulberries are the Illinois Everbearing variety and are juicy with a citrus overtone. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lynch's delicious, consistently sweet, complexly flavored fruit is a hit with foodies seeking new tasting experiences, but just about anyone can appreciate the candy-like fruit. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/mulberry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mulberry\u003c/a> isn't actually a berry. It's a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drupe\u003c/a>, in which aggregate fruits grow into long formations clustered around a mild-flavored, soft stem. Whatever its genus, Lynch's deep purple produce is quite habit forming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/mulberries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wonderfully tasty fruit\u003c/a>,\" Lynch says. \"Every year, when they become ripe again, we gush over our first bites.\" As do his customers, who now know they need to arrive early to snap up a portion of his farm's small output.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major difference between The Mulberry Guy and other farmers is in the objective. Lynch and his Shanghai-born wife, Monica, aren't in it for the money, but rather as a summer avocation for the two Palo Alto teachers. Their backyard business is alternate employment for the non-teaching months. \"Mulberries just happen to ripen steadily over the entire summer,\" Lynch notes. \"It's a perfect match.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96272\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking.jpg\" alt=\"Local middle-school science teacher Kevin Lynch picks mulberries as the season begins at his suburban farm in Palo Alto.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-400x603.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-800x1206.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-1440x2171.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-1180x1779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Kevin-picking-960x1448.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local middle-school science teacher Kevin Lynch picks mulberries as the season begins at his suburban farm in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This suburban farm is also a way to engage the couple's two sons, Osmanthus (Osy), 13, and Halo, 11, in an absorbing family project with rich side benefits. Lynch admits this is a break-even enterprise, but one that has expanded the family's horizons. \"We have so many new friends thanks to the mulberry,\" Lynch says. \"We've met really wonderful families,\" between weekly summer appearances at the farmers market and relationships forged with local chefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been allowed behind the scenes at a Michelin-starred restaurant; seen the way other local chefs take pride in cooking from true local sources; learned the interesting supply-side politics of the farmers market world and gained a greater respect for the true farmers -- the ones who do this for a living year round,\" Lynch explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lynches had no clue how much they would reap from growing mulberries when they backed into the project, which began with re-landscaping their yard a decade-plus ago. \"We ordered a large variety of interesting edibles, none of which we'd ever tasted,\" Lynch recalls. \"The mulberry was an epiphany and we simply bought more -- maybe over-bought! The idea to sell them was part in reaction to abundance and part brainstorm in that we could set up our young sons with instant summer employment some day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96273\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew.jpg\" alt=\"Monica Lynch, a second- and third-grade teacher in Palo Alto, gets picking help from sons Osy, left, and Halo, right. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/picking-crew-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica Lynch, a second- and third-grade teacher in Palo Alto, gets picking help from sons Osy, left, and Halo, right. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Left to their own devices, mulberry trees -- drought-hardy, low-fuss fruit producers -- will each grow to 30 feet tall and 35 feet wide. However, the un-irrigated mulberry orchard in the family's small back yard has four tight rows of trees that have been carefully pruned by Lynch in what he calls \"an unnatural arrangement.\" His 27-plus trees come in four-plus varieties, but are not alone on the petite property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've planted just about every inch of our 8,000-square-foot lot that's not house and walkway,\" Lynch says. \"People are usually surprised by how small our place is. We go for height and planar form. That being said, we have very little sun left these days to grow things like veggies. We have figs, plums, apricots, oranges, limes, lemons, pears, blackberries, raspberries, Nanking cherries, cornelian cherries, elderberries, serviceberries, marionberries, cherries, pomegranates, pluots, loquats, hundreds of daffodils underplanting all of it, and we host a beehive for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/uvasgoldapiary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvas Gold Apiary\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in his seventh year as a market vendor, Lynch laughs when asked if farming is in his blood. Growing up in Southern California, \"I was a total L.A. kid,\" he says. \"We had lawns, like everybody. My parents are just baffled by where all the farming came from.\" In fact, the senior Lynches have never been to a farmers market so they'll be rectifying that when they visit their son and his family this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96274\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries.jpg\" alt=\"The longer Pakistan variety of mulberry can go to five inches and is toothsome, less moist and offers rounded flavors with hints of banana and apple.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-1440x1133.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-1180x929.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Pakistan-mulberries-960x756.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The longer Pakistan variety of mulberry can go to five inches and is toothsome, less moist and offers rounded flavors with hints of banana and apple. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As their passion project has expanded, Lynch and his wife have created new products to bring to the farmers market. With their stall only operating once a week, the Lynches began producing mulberry jam using some of the less-than-cosmetically-perfect fruit left over from what goes to market or is bought up by their restaurant clients, which currently include \u003ca href=\"http://www.pampaspaloalto.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pampas\u003c/a> in Palo Alto, \u003ca href=\"http://www.maderasandhill.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madera\u003c/a> in Menlo Park and \u003ca href=\"http://www.quattrorestaurant.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quattro\u003c/a> at the Four Seasons in East Palo Alto. \"It's made from just three ingredients -- fruit, honey and lemon -- all grown in our yard. Not a lot of people can say that,\" Lynch states proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea.jpg\" alt=\"In order to utilize more of the Lynch family's yard full of mulberry trees, Monica has branched out to mulberry jam and tea, drying the leaves in her Palo Alto kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-400x543.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-800x1085.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-1440x1953.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-1180x1600.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Monica-and-tea-960x1302.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In order to utilize more of the Lynch family's yard full of mulberry trees, Monica has branched out to mulberry jam and tea, drying the leaves in her Palo Alto kitchen. \u003ccite>(Susan Hathaway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The environmentally minded couple are also utilizing other parts of the mulberry plant. A recent project by Monica involves drying the leaves for mulberry/mint tea, which is caffeine free and beneficial in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mulberrytea.org/benefits/mulberry-tea-benefits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treating various ailments\u003c/a> such as diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. She has also begun using the deeply colored fruit for natural, organic lip balm. \"It has a little color -- my favorite -- purple,\" she says, pointing to her pale plum outfit and laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Lynch family appears boundlessly energetic, a plan for how to utilize yet another part of their mulberry orchard in the far-off future -- when they might slow down -- has presented itself. Says Lynch, \"I have a customer at the farmers market who plays the lute and he says if I chop down the mulberry trees, the wood is perfect for \u003ca href=\"http://www.ehow.com/info_8434836_uses-mulberry-wood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making guitars\u003c/a>. We have a market at the end of the line!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit The Mulberry Guy at the Palo Alto downtown farmers market - Saturdays, 8am-1pm Gilman St. & Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto. Visit the website at \u003ca href=\"http://themulberryguy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">themulberryguy.com\u003c/a> or find their shop on Etsy at \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/shop/MulberryJamAndTea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MulberryJamAndTea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/96267/the-mulberry-guy-brings-sweat-and-passion-to-second-career-as-a-suburban-farmer","authors":["5578"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_95","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_2332","bayareabites_91"],"tags":["bayareabites_16404","bayareabites_14767","bayareabites_2055"],"featImg":"bayareabites_96269","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_95972":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_95972","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"95972","score":null,"sort":[1431463070000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"scape-offers-bay-area-residents-food-from-your-yard-without-all-the-work","title":"Food From Your Yard, Without All the Work","publishDate":1431463070,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco resident Kai Stinchcombe likes to cook his own meals, and he eats a lot of fresh vegetables. And he loves the idea of growing his own food. But between his job at a startup and out-of-town trips and life, he said, “I can barely keep the cactus in my room alive. Plus, I’m just not the type to install irrigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he called someone who was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a month later, he is harvesting kale, fava bean greens and just had his first strawberry from his own garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Introducing San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.myfoodscape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scape\u003c/a>, which turns your own front or backyard –- and sometimes both –- into a mini-farm, with little or no work required on your part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mission is to provide access to fresh, healthy food, by helping people grow food right in their own yards,” Scape founder Mary Lemmer told Bay Area Bites at a recent interview at one of the farms (read: backyards) she helps oversee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96067 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Lemmer tends to a garden at a client's home in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Lemmer tends to a garden at a client's home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the homeowner pays for installation of the garden, she can then choose how much service she wants; she can either maintain it herself for free, continue to pay a monthly fee of $25 for a box of DIY garden tools and materials (seeds, organic pest control, harvest tools, etc), or pay $50 per month to have someone come take care of it. If the cost of installation is prohibitive (an average size garden costs around $350 both for labor and starts or seeds, but does not include irrigation costs), the homeowner can split the cost with friends, and then share the produce as well. Scape can also help match up the homeowner with others nearby who want to share in the costs, but don’t have the space for a garden of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, Lemmer said, a San Francisco landowner got nine friends to each chip in $50 to pay for the garden, and each one is now entitled to a share of the produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met out of happenstance, and I liked the idea of putting my great soil to use to grow produce,” said Susie Wyshak, Rockridge resident and author of “Good Food, Great Business: How to Take Your Artisan Food Business From Concept to Marketplace” (Chronicle Books). “I had been wanting to clean up the weeds and set up a garden. It was a match made in a heaven, at a reasonable price, to meet these goals —- as they did the work. Now I want to hang out in the back yard admiring the farm, more than before, too. It will be fun to start getting the boxes of produce once the crops are ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96070 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo.jpg\" alt=\"Susie Wyshak now hangs out in her backyard more than she did before to see how things are growing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susie Wyshak now hangs out in her backyard more than she did before to see how things are growing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susie Wyshak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stinchcombe appreciates how he can show up to friend’s houses bearing a bunch of kale as a gift, or that when friends ask him at his house the source of certain items at the table, he can say his own yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemmer has also been running \u003ca href=\"http://www.ioriosgelato.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a gelato business\u003c/a> for half her life, quite a feat since she is all of 26. When her family would visit her Italian grandparents in Philadelphia, she loved the Italian ices she would get there, ices she couldn't find where she lived in Michigan. With her father as her first investor, she began making ices and gelato and sold them at festivals and events and eventually opened a store in a “Ferry Building-like place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People loved our ices and gelato,” she said. “That inspired me to create something from scratch that was serving a need in the community that made people happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother still runs the business, while she has since moved to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemmer grew up on a 20-acre farm, and growing things is in her blood, she says. During her studies at the University of Michigan, she was always interested in food and worked for a time at the famed mail-order business \u003ca href=\"https://www.zingermans.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zingerman’s Deli\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also discovered the benefits of eating a plant-based diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went vegetarian in high school, and then I got really sick in college, as a lot of what I was eating was wheat, dairy, soy and corn. I ate a lot of processed vegetarian food and once I cut it out, I got better. In looking at the world of food, I realized that people should be eating more of this,” she said while pointing to her freshly growing veggies “and less of so-called ‘healthy’ granola bars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, her plan was for a company with a different business model in which homeowners paid nothing for the installation, but she quickly realized she needed to improve upon the concept to become sustainable. While her business has now overseen a number of garden installations in the area so far -- plus in other parts of the country where she has gardening contacts as well –- she said she has 50 people waiting to have gardens installed by Scape, and she’s put together a large network of freelance gardeners with experience growing food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96069 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475.jpg\" alt=\"Scape offers mini-farms at homeowner's front and backyards.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scape offers mini-farms at homeowner's front and backyards. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The landowner and gardener collaborate on deciding what should be grown, depending not only on what veggies they may want, but what will grow in the conditions they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she’s finding that many of her customers are in the younger demographic like herself, since “younger people are busy and are not cooking every night. A share in one of our gardens is a good amount for them because a lot of people say with a CSA (community-supported agriculture) box, they waste some of it because it’s too big and they’re not home every night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another benefit: Stinchcombe, who said he was pretty indifferent to fava beans before growing them, found that the fava leaves make a delicious pesto, which has the flavor of the beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the overall Scape experience so far, he said, “It’s fun. It’s producing a surprising large amount of food already. I’m delighted.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many people like the idea of growing their food, but are deterred by the actual work. A new company has come along to do the heavy lifting for you.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556745583,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1088},"headData":{"title":"Food From Your Yard, Without All the Work | KQED","description":"Many people like the idea of growing their food, but are deterred by the actual work. A new company has come along to do the heavy lifting for you.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Food From Your Yard, Without All the Work","datePublished":"2015-05-12T20:37:50.000Z","dateModified":"2019-05-01T21:19:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"95972 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=95972","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/05/12/scape-offers-bay-area-residents-food-from-your-yard-without-all-the-work/","disqusTitle":"Food From Your Yard, Without All the Work","path":"/bayareabites/95972/scape-offers-bay-area-residents-food-from-your-yard-without-all-the-work","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco resident Kai Stinchcombe likes to cook his own meals, and he eats a lot of fresh vegetables. And he loves the idea of growing his own food. But between his job at a startup and out-of-town trips and life, he said, “I can barely keep the cactus in my room alive. Plus, I’m just not the type to install irrigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he called someone who was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a month later, he is harvesting kale, fava bean greens and just had his first strawberry from his own garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Introducing San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.myfoodscape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scape\u003c/a>, which turns your own front or backyard –- and sometimes both –- into a mini-farm, with little or no work required on your part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mission is to provide access to fresh, healthy food, by helping people grow food right in their own yards,” Scape founder Mary Lemmer told Bay Area Bites at a recent interview at one of the farms (read: backyards) she helps oversee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96067 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Lemmer tends to a garden at a client's home in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0468-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Lemmer tends to a garden at a client's home in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the homeowner pays for installation of the garden, she can then choose how much service she wants; she can either maintain it herself for free, continue to pay a monthly fee of $25 for a box of DIY garden tools and materials (seeds, organic pest control, harvest tools, etc), or pay $50 per month to have someone come take care of it. If the cost of installation is prohibitive (an average size garden costs around $350 both for labor and starts or seeds, but does not include irrigation costs), the homeowner can split the cost with friends, and then share the produce as well. Scape can also help match up the homeowner with others nearby who want to share in the costs, but don’t have the space for a garden of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, Lemmer said, a San Francisco landowner got nine friends to each chip in $50 to pay for the garden, and each one is now entitled to a share of the produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met out of happenstance, and I liked the idea of putting my great soil to use to grow produce,” said Susie Wyshak, Rockridge resident and author of “Good Food, Great Business: How to Take Your Artisan Food Business From Concept to Marketplace” (Chronicle Books). “I had been wanting to clean up the weeds and set up a garden. It was a match made in a heaven, at a reasonable price, to meet these goals —- as they did the work. Now I want to hang out in the back yard admiring the farm, more than before, too. It will be fun to start getting the boxes of produce once the crops are ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96070 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo.jpg\" alt=\"Susie Wyshak now hangs out in her backyard more than she did before to see how things are growing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/photo-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susie Wyshak now hangs out in her backyard more than she did before to see how things are growing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susie Wyshak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stinchcombe appreciates how he can show up to friend’s houses bearing a bunch of kale as a gift, or that when friends ask him at his house the source of certain items at the table, he can say his own yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemmer has also been running \u003ca href=\"http://www.ioriosgelato.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a gelato business\u003c/a> for half her life, quite a feat since she is all of 26. When her family would visit her Italian grandparents in Philadelphia, she loved the Italian ices she would get there, ices she couldn't find where she lived in Michigan. With her father as her first investor, she began making ices and gelato and sold them at festivals and events and eventually opened a store in a “Ferry Building-like place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People loved our ices and gelato,” she said. “That inspired me to create something from scratch that was serving a need in the community that made people happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother still runs the business, while she has since moved to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemmer grew up on a 20-acre farm, and growing things is in her blood, she says. During her studies at the University of Michigan, she was always interested in food and worked for a time at the famed mail-order business \u003ca href=\"https://www.zingermans.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zingerman’s Deli\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also discovered the benefits of eating a plant-based diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went vegetarian in high school, and then I got really sick in college, as a lot of what I was eating was wheat, dairy, soy and corn. I ate a lot of processed vegetarian food and once I cut it out, I got better. In looking at the world of food, I realized that people should be eating more of this,” she said while pointing to her freshly growing veggies “and less of so-called ‘healthy’ granola bars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, her plan was for a company with a different business model in which homeowners paid nothing for the installation, but she quickly realized she needed to improve upon the concept to become sustainable. While her business has now overseen a number of garden installations in the area so far -- plus in other parts of the country where she has gardening contacts as well –- she said she has 50 people waiting to have gardens installed by Scape, and she’s put together a large network of freelance gardeners with experience growing food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96069 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475.jpg\" alt=\"Scape offers mini-farms at homeowner's front and backyards.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_0475-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scape offers mini-farms at homeowner's front and backyards. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The landowner and gardener collaborate on deciding what should be grown, depending not only on what veggies they may want, but what will grow in the conditions they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she’s finding that many of her customers are in the younger demographic like herself, since “younger people are busy and are not cooking every night. A share in one of our gardens is a good amount for them because a lot of people say with a CSA (community-supported agriculture) box, they waste some of it because it’s too big and they’re not home every night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another benefit: Stinchcombe, who said he was pretty indifferent to fava beans before growing them, found that the fava leaves make a delicious pesto, which has the flavor of the beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the overall Scape experience so far, he said, “It’s fun. It’s producing a surprising large amount of food already. I’m delighted.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/95972/scape-offers-bay-area-residents-food-from-your-yard-without-all-the-work","authors":["5567"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_2055"],"featImg":"bayareabites_96068","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_93452":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_93452","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"93452","score":null,"sort":[1424728173000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"freight-farms-entrepreneurs-modify-shipping-containers-to-grow-local-produce-year-round","title":"Freight Farms: Entrepreneurs Modify Shipping Containers to Grow Local Produce Year-Round","publishDate":1424728173,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1108px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1.jpg\" alt=\"Freight Farms are shipping containers modified to grow stacks of hydroponic plants and vegetables — anywhere, 365 days a year. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\" width=\"1108\" height=\"736\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1.jpg 1108w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1-768x510.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1108px) 100vw, 1108px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freight Farms are shipping containers modified to grow stacks of hydroponic plants and vegetables — anywhere, 365 days a year. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"124\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"//embed.wbur.org/player/hereandnow/2015/02/17/freight-farms-local-food\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here & Now Staff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/02/23/388467327/-freight-farms-grow-local-flavor-year-round\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/23/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States imports more than $100 billion of food every year from farms across the globe, often in the big metal shipping containers you see on cargo ships. Now, entrepreneurs are using those shipping containers to grow local produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"http://freightfarms.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Freight Farms\u003c/a>\" are shipping containers modified to grow stacks of hydroponic plants and vegetables. It's a new way for small-scale farmers to grow crops year-round in a computer-controlled environment, even in the middle of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freight Farms co-founders Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara started their Boston-based company in 2010. At first, they tell \u003cem>Here & Now'\u003c/em>s Jeremy Hobson, they were looking at growing food using urban rooftops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they \"realized that there was a much larger opportunity to empower more people in different spaces than just your unused roof space,\" McNamara tells Hobson. Friedman and McNamara say their goal was to cut down on the number of miles it takes to get greens from farm to table, so you can grow local food anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Friedman (left) and Brad McNamara (right) are the co-founders of Freight Farms. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\" width=\"1150\" height=\"766\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93454\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331.jpg 1150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Friedman (left) and Brad McNamara (right) are the co-founders of Freight Farms. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shipping containers are insulated, and all the systems – from pumps to irrigation to LED growing lights – can be digitally controlled. The Freight Farms are also Wi-Fi hot spots, so farmers can check on things like pH levels remotely using a mobile dashboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can set alerts. They can set alarms,\" McNamara says, adding, \"So if you're at home and it's really cold outside, your farm is covered in snow, you don't actually have to leave your house to go check on things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freight Farms says it has sold about 25 of the containers so far, at a cost starting at $76,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn and Connie Cooney are two urban farmers putting the technology into action in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a city, you can grow enough produce using this technology to make a scalable business. So you can sell wholesale as well as retail and have a real business,\" Shawn Cooney tells Hobson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is currently growing greens including kale, cilantro, mustard greens and wild mint. Like a library of plants, the herbs and vegetables are neatly organized in towers of leafy greens. The Cooneys sell most of their produce to restaurants via wholesale distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93455\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898.jpg\" alt=\"Lettuces, brassicas and herbs grow in a Freight Farms container. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898.jpg 490w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898-400x601.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898-320x481.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lettuces, brassicas and herbs grow in a Freight Farms container. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"No we're at the point where we're asking what the restaurants want,\" Connie Cooney says. Mustard greens, with their wasabi-like finish, are a popular request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a 365-day growing season, the Cooneys are always in business. Their four freight containers can yield as much produce as four acres of land – in less time, they say, than it would take to grow on a traditional farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you give them the right nutrients, they taste as good, or better, as they would coming out of a dirt farm,\" Shawn Cooney says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though watering, lighting and the addition of nutrients are all automatically controlled, \"there's still a lot of farm work going on,\" Shawn Cooney says, adding, \"You still have to come in and take care of the plants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, the Cooneys' business is breaking even. Now that they have a handle on the farming aspects, they can tailor their produce to what people want and focus on profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Freight Farms system may seem particularly useful right now to Bostonians, with their city entombed in snow, Friedman hopes to see farmers all over the world adopt his company's growing system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see a lot of potential in a lot of other countries besides the U.S. [that] don't have access to food, [that] either have a large urban sprawl or just don't have the distribution system that we have in the U.S,\" Friedman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to us via Here & Now, a show produced by NPR and member station WBUR in Boston. You can also listen to the \u003ca href=\"http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/02/17/freight-farms-local-food\">audio version\u003c/a> of this story on WBUR's website.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Big metal shipping containers are often used to import food from around the globe. 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Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\" width=\"1108\" height=\"736\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1.jpg 1108w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1-768x510.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-1_enl-123e7a79521b0fabc4811de46e4cdf38a710ead1-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1108px) 100vw, 1108px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freight Farms are shipping containers modified to grow stacks of hydroponic plants and vegetables — anywhere, 365 days a year. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"124\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"//embed.wbur.org/player/hereandnow/2015/02/17/freight-farms-local-food\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here & Now Staff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/02/23/388467327/-freight-farms-grow-local-flavor-year-round\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/23/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States imports more than $100 billion of food every year from farms across the globe, often in the big metal shipping containers you see on cargo ships. Now, entrepreneurs are using those shipping containers to grow local produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"http://freightfarms.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Freight Farms\u003c/a>\" are shipping containers modified to grow stacks of hydroponic plants and vegetables. It's a new way for small-scale farmers to grow crops year-round in a computer-controlled environment, even in the middle of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freight Farms co-founders Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara started their Boston-based company in 2010. At first, they tell \u003cem>Here & Now'\u003c/em>s Jeremy Hobson, they were looking at growing food using urban rooftops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they \"realized that there was a much larger opportunity to empower more people in different spaces than just your unused roof space,\" McNamara tells Hobson. Friedman and McNamara say their goal was to cut down on the number of miles it takes to get greens from farm to table, so you can grow local food anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Friedman (left) and Brad McNamara (right) are the co-founders of Freight Farms. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\" width=\"1150\" height=\"766\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93454\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331.jpg 1150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freight-farms-3_enl-693b5dddff7a491bce26566df176e01fa72bc331-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Friedman (left) and Brad McNamara (right) are the co-founders of Freight Farms. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shipping containers are insulated, and all the systems – from pumps to irrigation to LED growing lights – can be digitally controlled. The Freight Farms are also Wi-Fi hot spots, so farmers can check on things like pH levels remotely using a mobile dashboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can set alerts. They can set alarms,\" McNamara says, adding, \"So if you're at home and it's really cold outside, your farm is covered in snow, you don't actually have to leave your house to go check on things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freight Farms says it has sold about 25 of the containers so far, at a cost starting at $76,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn and Connie Cooney are two urban farmers putting the technology into action in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a city, you can grow enough produce using this technology to make a scalable business. So you can sell wholesale as well as retail and have a real business,\" Shawn Cooney tells Hobson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is currently growing greens including kale, cilantro, mustard greens and wild mint. Like a library of plants, the herbs and vegetables are neatly organized in towers of leafy greens. The Cooneys sell most of their produce to restaurants via wholesale distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93455\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898.jpg\" alt=\"Lettuces, brassicas and herbs grow in a Freight Farms container. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898.jpg 490w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898-400x601.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/freigh-farms-2_enl-14bc13d78d799bc60884fea29ad7556d47089898-320x481.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lettuces, brassicas and herbs grow in a Freight Farms container. Photo: Courtesy of Freight Farms\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"No we're at the point where we're asking what the restaurants want,\" Connie Cooney says. Mustard greens, with their wasabi-like finish, are a popular request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a 365-day growing season, the Cooneys are always in business. Their four freight containers can yield as much produce as four acres of land – in less time, they say, than it would take to grow on a traditional farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you give them the right nutrients, they taste as good, or better, as they would coming out of a dirt farm,\" Shawn Cooney says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though watering, lighting and the addition of nutrients are all automatically controlled, \"there's still a lot of farm work going on,\" Shawn Cooney says, adding, \"You still have to come in and take care of the plants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, the Cooneys' business is breaking even. Now that they have a handle on the farming aspects, they can tailor their produce to what people want and focus on profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Freight Farms system may seem particularly useful right now to Bostonians, with their city entombed in snow, Friedman hopes to see farmers all over the world adopt his company's growing system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see a lot of potential in a lot of other countries besides the U.S. [that] don't have access to food, [that] either have a large urban sprawl or just don't have the distribution system that we have in the U.S,\" Friedman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to us via Here & Now, a show produced by NPR and member station WBUR in Boston. You can also listen to the \u003ca href=\"http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/02/17/freight-farms-local-food\">audio version\u003c/a> of this story on WBUR's website.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/93452/freight-farms-entrepreneurs-modify-shipping-containers-to-grow-local-produce-year-round","authors":["byline_bayareabites_93452"],"categories":["bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_10916"],"tags":["bayareabites_14166","bayareabites_14167","bayareabites_14168","bayareabites_2055"],"featImg":"bayareabites_93453","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_62415":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_62415","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"62415","score":null,"sort":[1369172529000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"vertical-pinkhouses-the-future-of-urban-farming","title":"Vertical 'Pinkhouses:' The Future Of Urban Farming?","publishDate":1369172529,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 666px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/pinkhouse.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/pinkhouse.jpg\" alt='This \"pinkhouse\" at Caliber Biotherapeutics in Bryan, Texas, grows 2.2 million plants under the glow of blue and red LEDs. Photo: Courtesy of Caliber Therapeutics' width=\"666\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This \"pinkhouse\" at Caliber Biotherapeutics in Bryan, Texas, grows 2.2 million plants under the glow of blue and red LEDs. Photo: Courtesy of Caliber Therapeutics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/21/185758529/vertical-pinkhouses-the-future-of-urban-farming\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (5/21/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of vertical farming is all the rage right now. Architects and engineers have come up with spectacular concepts for lofty buildings that could function as urban food centers of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62424\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/verticalfarm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/verticalfarm-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"An artist's rendering of what a planned vertical farm in Linkoping, Sweden, will look like. Photo: Courtesy of Plantagon\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62424\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist's rendering of what a planned vertical farm in Linkoping, Sweden, will look like.\u003cbr>Photo: Courtesy of Plantagon\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Sweden, for example, they're planning a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plantagon-international/image/view/plantagon-greenhouse-building-b1-view-1-102239\">177-foot skyscraper\u003c/a> to farm leafy greens at the edge of each floor. But so far, most \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/11/06/164428031/sky-high-vegetables-vertical-farming-sprouts-in-singapore\">vertical gardens\u003c/a> that are up and running actually look more like large greenhouses than city towers. And many horticulturists don't think sky-high farms in cities are practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea of taking a skyscraper and turning it into a vertical farming complex is absolutely ridiculous from an energy perspective,\" says horticulturist \u003ca href=\"https://ag.purdue.edu/hla/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=cmitchel&intDirDeptID=16\">Cary Mitchell\u003c/a> of Purdue University, who's been working on ways to grow plants in space for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future of vertical farming, Mitchell thinks, lies not in city skyscrapers, but rather in large warehouses located in the suburbs, where real estate and electricity are cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And oh, yeah, instead of being traditional greenhouses lit by fluorescent lamps, he says these plant factories will probably be \"pinkhouses,\" glowing magenta from the mix of blue and red LEDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Light is a major problem with vertical farming. When you stack plants on top of each other, the ones at the top shade the ones at the bottom. The only way to get around it is to add artificial light — which is expensive both financially and environmentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vertical farmers can lower the energy bill, Mitchell says, by giving plants only the wavelengths of light they need the most: the blue and red.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty years ago, research showed that you could grow lettuce in just red light,\" Mitchell says. \"If you add a little bit of blue, it grows better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plant's photosynthesis machinery is tuned to absorb red and blue light most efficiently. They have a handful of other pigments in their leaves that catch other wavelengths, but the red and blue wavelengths are the big ones, supplying the majority of the light needed to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62421\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/leds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/leds-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Cary Mitchell and Celina Gomez, of Purdue University, harvest tomatoes grown next to a tower of blue and red LEDs. Photo: Courtesy of Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62421\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cary Mitchell and Celina Gomez, of Purdue University, harvest tomatoes grown next to a tower of blue and red LEDs. Photo: Courtesy of Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So why LEDs? They're super energy efficient in general, but unlike traditional greenhouse lamps, they can be tuned to specific wavelengths. Why use all of ROYGBIV when just RB will do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's another advantage to using LEDs in greenhouses and vertical farming, Mitchell says: Because these lights are cooler, you can place them close to the plants — even stacked plants — and lose even less energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Mitchell and his graduate student designed a 9-foot-tall tower of lights and grew tomato plants right up against it. \"As the plants get taller, we turn on the [light] panels higher up,\" he explains. \"It takes about two months before all the panels are on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The towers cut energy consumption by about 75 percent, Mitchell and his team reported earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, experiments are using these specialized LEDs to supplement natural light, not replace it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as LEDs get more and more efficient, could growers forgo the natural light altogether and grow crops completely in enclosed rooms, where they're protected from temperature changes or damaging pests?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what Barry Holtz, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.caliberbio.com/\">Caliber Biotherapeutics\u003c/a>, is already doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His farms have never seen the light of day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62423\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/pinkleds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/pinkleds-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Plants at Caliber Biotherapeutics grow under blue and red LEDs, with wavelengths of light that match those that get absorbed by the photosynthetic machinery. Photo: Courtesy of Caliber Biotherapeutics \" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plants at Caliber Biotherapeutics grow under blue and red LEDs, with wavelengths of light that match those that get absorbed by the photosynthetic machinery. Photo: Courtesy of Caliber Biotherapeutics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He and his company have built a 150,000-square-foot \"plant factory\" in Texas that is completely closed off from the outside world. They grow 2.2 million plants, stacked up 50 feet high, all underneath the magenta glow of blue and red LEDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A photon is a terrible thing to waste,\" Holtz tells The Salt. \"So we developed these lights to correctly match the photosynthesis needs of our plants. We get almost 20 percent faster growth rate and save a lot energy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holtz is growing a tobacco-like plant to make new drugs and vaccines. The indoor pinkhouse gives him tight control over the expensive crops, so his team can stop diseases and contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holtz says this type of indoor gardening isn't going to replace traditional farms anytime soon. It's still relatively expensive for growing food. \"We couldn't compete with iceberg lettuce farmers,\" he says, \"but for certain specialty crops, the economics wouldn't be so bad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, the pinkhouse is actually quite efficient when it comes to water and electricity. \"We've done some calculations, and we lose less water in one day than a KFC restaurant uses, because we recycle all of it.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Architects have come up with spectacular concepts for vertical farms that would grow crops in city skyscrapers. 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Photo: Courtesy of Caliber Therapeutics' width=\"666\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This \"pinkhouse\" at Caliber Biotherapeutics in Bryan, Texas, grows 2.2 million plants under the glow of blue and red LEDs. Photo: Courtesy of Caliber Therapeutics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/21/185758529/vertical-pinkhouses-the-future-of-urban-farming\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (5/21/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of vertical farming is all the rage right now. Architects and engineers have come up with spectacular concepts for lofty buildings that could function as urban food centers of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62424\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/verticalfarm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/verticalfarm-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"An artist's rendering of what a planned vertical farm in Linkoping, Sweden, will look like. 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And many horticulturists don't think sky-high farms in cities are practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea of taking a skyscraper and turning it into a vertical farming complex is absolutely ridiculous from an energy perspective,\" says horticulturist \u003ca href=\"https://ag.purdue.edu/hla/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=cmitchel&intDirDeptID=16\">Cary Mitchell\u003c/a> of Purdue University, who's been working on ways to grow plants in space for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future of vertical farming, Mitchell thinks, lies not in city skyscrapers, but rather in large warehouses located in the suburbs, where real estate and electricity are cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And oh, yeah, instead of being traditional greenhouses lit by fluorescent lamps, he says these plant factories will probably be \"pinkhouses,\" glowing magenta from the mix of blue and red LEDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Light is a major problem with vertical farming. When you stack plants on top of each other, the ones at the top shade the ones at the bottom. The only way to get around it is to add artificial light — which is expensive both financially and environmentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vertical farmers can lower the energy bill, Mitchell says, by giving plants only the wavelengths of light they need the most: the blue and red.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty years ago, research showed that you could grow lettuce in just red light,\" Mitchell says. \"If you add a little bit of blue, it grows better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plant's photosynthesis machinery is tuned to absorb red and blue light most efficiently. They have a handful of other pigments in their leaves that catch other wavelengths, but the red and blue wavelengths are the big ones, supplying the majority of the light needed to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62421\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/leds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/leds-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Cary Mitchell and Celina Gomez, of Purdue University, harvest tomatoes grown next to a tower of blue and red LEDs. Photo: Courtesy of Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62421\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cary Mitchell and Celina Gomez, of Purdue University, harvest tomatoes grown next to a tower of blue and red LEDs. Photo: Courtesy of Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So why LEDs? They're super energy efficient in general, but unlike traditional greenhouse lamps, they can be tuned to specific wavelengths. Why use all of ROYGBIV when just RB will do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's another advantage to using LEDs in greenhouses and vertical farming, Mitchell says: Because these lights are cooler, you can place them close to the plants — even stacked plants — and lose even less energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Mitchell and his graduate student designed a 9-foot-tall tower of lights and grew tomato plants right up against it. \"As the plants get taller, we turn on the [light] panels higher up,\" he explains. \"It takes about two months before all the panels are on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The towers cut energy consumption by about 75 percent, Mitchell and his team reported earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, experiments are using these specialized LEDs to supplement natural light, not replace it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as LEDs get more and more efficient, could growers forgo the natural light altogether and grow crops completely in enclosed rooms, where they're protected from temperature changes or damaging pests?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what Barry Holtz, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.caliberbio.com/\">Caliber Biotherapeutics\u003c/a>, is already doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His farms have never seen the light of day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62423\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/pinkleds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/pinkleds-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Plants at Caliber Biotherapeutics grow under blue and red LEDs, with wavelengths of light that match those that get absorbed by the photosynthetic machinery. Photo: Courtesy of Caliber Biotherapeutics \" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plants at Caliber Biotherapeutics grow under blue and red LEDs, with wavelengths of light that match those that get absorbed by the photosynthetic machinery. Photo: Courtesy of Caliber Biotherapeutics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He and his company have built a 150,000-square-foot \"plant factory\" in Texas that is completely closed off from the outside world. They grow 2.2 million plants, stacked up 50 feet high, all underneath the magenta glow of blue and red LEDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A photon is a terrible thing to waste,\" Holtz tells The Salt. \"So we developed these lights to correctly match the photosynthesis needs of our plants. We get almost 20 percent faster growth rate and save a lot energy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holtz is growing a tobacco-like plant to make new drugs and vaccines. The indoor pinkhouse gives him tight control over the expensive crops, so his team can stop diseases and contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holtz says this type of indoor gardening isn't going to replace traditional farms anytime soon. It's still relatively expensive for growing food. \"We couldn't compete with iceberg lettuce farmers,\" he says, \"but for certain specialty crops, the economics wouldn't be so bad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, the pinkhouse is actually quite efficient when it comes to water and electricity. \"We've done some calculations, and we lose less water in one day than a KFC restaurant uses, because we recycle all of it.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/62415/vertical-pinkhouses-the-future-of-urban-farming","authors":["byline_bayareabites_62415"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_11755","bayareabites_11756","bayareabites_11758","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_2055","bayareabites_11757"],"featImg":"bayareabites_62416","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_61157":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_61157","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"61157","score":null,"sort":[1367436412000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chicken-diapers-urban-farming-spawns-accessory-lines","title":"Chicken Diapers? Urban Farming Spawns Accessory Lines","publishDate":1367436412,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/sasakichickendiaper_wide-40fafcf5f89c73c5a31fdb8c58f917237a716cf0-s40.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/sasakichickendiaper_wide-40fafcf5f89c73c5a31fdb8c58f917237a716cf0-s40.jpg\" alt='Clucking all the way to the bank: A hen models a polka-dot diaper from MyPetChicken.com, a multimillion-dollar business that sells everything from chicken caviar treats to day-old birds. Photo: <a href=\"http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Diapers-and-Saddles/Chicken-Diaper-Free-shipping-p494.aspx#\">MyPetChicken.com</a>' width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clucking all the way to the bank: A hen models a polka-dot diaper from MyPetChicken.com, a multimillion-dollar business that sells everything from chicken caviar treats to day-old birds. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Diapers-and-Saddles/Chicken-Diaper-Free-shipping-p494.aspx#\">MyPetChicken.com\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/30/180135026/chicken-diapers-urban-farming-spawns-accessory-lines\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (05/01/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's free range and then there's \u003cem>free rein\u003c/em> — around your house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Julie Baker's backyard birds started spending more time inside, it was tough to keep them clean. So she got innovative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sewed up a cloth diaper — chicken-sized, of course — added a few buttons and strapped it onto her little lady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing led to another, and eventually, a business was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61166\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 230px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/julieandbirdtone-ccb71e3a1a9ca0c9112067f4f664ca4634dc093c1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/julieandbirdtone-ccb71e3a1a9ca0c9112067f4f664ca4634dc093c1.jpg\" alt='\"A lot of my customers use them as dresses,\" Julie Baker, of Claremont, N.H., says about the poultry diapers she sells online. \"They want their chickens to look really cute.\" Photo: <a href=\"http://www.wmur.com/new-hampshire-chronicle/Thursday-November-22nd-pamper-your-poultry/-/13383450/17426390/-/14gq7pl/-/index.html\">WMUR.com</a>' width=\"230\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61166\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"A lot of my customers use them as dresses,\" Julie Baker, of Claremont, N.H., says about the poultry diapers she sells online. \"They want their chickens to look really cute.\" Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.wmur.com/new-hampshire-chronicle/Thursday-November-22nd-pamper-your-poultry/-/13383450/17426390/-/14gq7pl/-/index.html\">WMUR.com\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now Baker's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pamperyourpoultry.com/diaper_catalog.asp\">Pampered Poultry\u003c/a> ships out about 50 to 100 diapers a week to urban farmers around the country. The store also sells saddles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait a minute. Saddles? Who's riding chickens?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The roosters,\" Baker says. \"They're busy boys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Saddles are almost more useful than the diaper, quite frankly,\" she tells The Salt. \"A rooster isn't particularly kind to a hen when they mate. He grabs her by the back and pulls her feathers out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hen ends up with a completely bare back. It gets raw and bleeds a little bit,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Baker started selling saddles to protect the hens' tail feathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she's not the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick Google search finds several other shops offering custom-sized diapers and leash-ready saddles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Husband and wife team Derek Sasaki and Traci Torres have even turned the avian accessory business into a multimillion-dollar venture: \u003ca href=\"http://www.mypetchicken.com/default.aspx?f=logo\">MyPetChicken.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diapers are a small part of the website's annual sales, most of which come from selling baby birds, Sasaki says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61168\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/aquasaddletoned-b0f2390b53825e5102c410da879c0d3ed21ff984-s51.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/aquasaddletoned-b0f2390b53825e5102c410da879c0d3ed21ff984-s51.jpg\" alt='Hello, big guy: Hen lingerie like this \"saddle\" adds a twist to the phrase \"safe sex.\" Photo: Julie Baker' width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hello, big guy: Hen lingerie like this \"saddle\" adds a twist to the phrase \"safe sex.\" Photo: Julie Baker\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But \"our chicken treats are popular,\" he tells The Salt. These include chicken caviar and \"chicken crack\" — a mixture of organic grains, organic seeds, dried meal worms and dried river shrimp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been made in the past few years about the rising popularity of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/13/146805289/why-you-should-raise-urban-chickens-at-your-own-risk\">backyard poultry farming\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 0.8 percent of households in Denver, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City owned chickens in 2010, according to a \u003ca href=\"%20http:/www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/poultry/downloads/poultry10/Poultry10_dr_Urban_Chicken_Four.pdf\">new report\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. What's more, nearly 4 percent of residents in these cities say they plan to pick up a chick in the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chickens are a symbol of urban nirvana,\" \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/us/new-homes-beckon-for-city-chickens-in-retirement.html\">wrote\u003c/a> last year, \"their coops backyard shrines to a locavore movement that has city dwellers moving ever closer to their food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the \"poultry Pampers\" and hen lingerie point to the next phase of the urban chicken trend: home invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Slabaugh thinks so. He's the editor of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/\">Backyard Poultry\u003c/a>\u003c/em> magazine, which touts tens of thousands of subscribers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More people are keeping chickens as pets instead of as farm animals, Slabaugh says. \"I bet close to 50 percent of our readers have chickens around for companionship rather than for any real agricultural purposes,\" he tells The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are many breeds of chickens that are good to look at but don't lay very good eggs,\" he says — and they're still popular with urban farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got a call the other day from a lady in Idaho because her chicken had a problem with its foot,\" he says. \"She called it a 'lap chicken.' It crawled up in her lap, just like any other pet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Torres of MyPetChicken.com says this might be more the exception than the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few die-hard poultry people who keep the birds in their homes 24/7, she says. They have decked-out chicken condos that can be outlandish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But usually what happens is that a bird will get injured and someone might bring it inside to recuperate,\" she says. \"The diaper makes cleanup much, much easier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the rehabilitation, it can be tough to send the bird back to the yard, Torres says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And voila — a lap chicken is created. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/30/180135026/chicken-diapers-urban-farming-spawns-accessory-lines\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As urban chicken farms grow in popularity, many people are bringing the birds into their homes. They need the right equipment to keep them clean. So several business have popped up online, offering everything from custom-sized diapers and leash-ready saddles to chicken caviar.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1367436912,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":729},"headData":{"title":"Chicken Diapers? Urban Farming Spawns Accessory Lines | KQED","description":"As urban chicken farms grow in popularity, many people are bringing the birds into their homes. They need the right equipment to keep them clean. So several business have popped up online, offering everything from custom-sized diapers and leash-ready saddles to chicken caviar.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Chicken Diapers? 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Urban Farming Spawns Accessory Lines","nprByline":"Michaeleen Doucleff","nprStoryId":"180135026","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=180135026&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/30/180135026/chicken-diapers-urban-farming-spawns-accessory-lines?ft=3&f=180135026","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 01 May 2013 14:46:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 01 May 2013 14:23:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 01 May 2013 14:46:22 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/61157/chicken-diapers-urban-farming-spawns-accessory-lines","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/sasakichickendiaper_wide-40fafcf5f89c73c5a31fdb8c58f917237a716cf0-s40.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/sasakichickendiaper_wide-40fafcf5f89c73c5a31fdb8c58f917237a716cf0-s40.jpg\" alt='Clucking all the way to the bank: A hen models a polka-dot diaper from MyPetChicken.com, a multimillion-dollar business that sells everything from chicken caviar treats to day-old birds. Photo: <a href=\"http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Diapers-and-Saddles/Chicken-Diaper-Free-shipping-p494.aspx#\">MyPetChicken.com</a>' width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clucking all the way to the bank: A hen models a polka-dot diaper from MyPetChicken.com, a multimillion-dollar business that sells everything from chicken caviar treats to day-old birds. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Diapers-and-Saddles/Chicken-Diaper-Free-shipping-p494.aspx#\">MyPetChicken.com\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/30/180135026/chicken-diapers-urban-farming-spawns-accessory-lines\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (05/01/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's free range and then there's \u003cem>free rein\u003c/em> — around your house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Julie Baker's backyard birds started spending more time inside, it was tough to keep them clean. So she got innovative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sewed up a cloth diaper — chicken-sized, of course — added a few buttons and strapped it onto her little lady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing led to another, and eventually, a business was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61166\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 230px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/julieandbirdtone-ccb71e3a1a9ca0c9112067f4f664ca4634dc093c1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/julieandbirdtone-ccb71e3a1a9ca0c9112067f4f664ca4634dc093c1.jpg\" alt='\"A lot of my customers use them as dresses,\" Julie Baker, of Claremont, N.H., says about the poultry diapers she sells online. \"They want their chickens to look really cute.\" Photo: <a href=\"http://www.wmur.com/new-hampshire-chronicle/Thursday-November-22nd-pamper-your-poultry/-/13383450/17426390/-/14gq7pl/-/index.html\">WMUR.com</a>' width=\"230\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61166\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"A lot of my customers use them as dresses,\" Julie Baker, of Claremont, N.H., says about the poultry diapers she sells online. \"They want their chickens to look really cute.\" Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.wmur.com/new-hampshire-chronicle/Thursday-November-22nd-pamper-your-poultry/-/13383450/17426390/-/14gq7pl/-/index.html\">WMUR.com\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now Baker's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pamperyourpoultry.com/diaper_catalog.asp\">Pampered Poultry\u003c/a> ships out about 50 to 100 diapers a week to urban farmers around the country. The store also sells saddles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait a minute. Saddles? Who's riding chickens?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The roosters,\" Baker says. \"They're busy boys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Saddles are almost more useful than the diaper, quite frankly,\" she tells The Salt. \"A rooster isn't particularly kind to a hen when they mate. He grabs her by the back and pulls her feathers out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hen ends up with a completely bare back. It gets raw and bleeds a little bit,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Baker started selling saddles to protect the hens' tail feathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she's not the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick Google search finds several other shops offering custom-sized diapers and leash-ready saddles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Husband and wife team Derek Sasaki and Traci Torres have even turned the avian accessory business into a multimillion-dollar venture: \u003ca href=\"http://www.mypetchicken.com/default.aspx?f=logo\">MyPetChicken.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diapers are a small part of the website's annual sales, most of which come from selling baby birds, Sasaki says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61168\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/aquasaddletoned-b0f2390b53825e5102c410da879c0d3ed21ff984-s51.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/aquasaddletoned-b0f2390b53825e5102c410da879c0d3ed21ff984-s51.jpg\" alt='Hello, big guy: Hen lingerie like this \"saddle\" adds a twist to the phrase \"safe sex.\" Photo: Julie Baker' width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hello, big guy: Hen lingerie like this \"saddle\" adds a twist to the phrase \"safe sex.\" Photo: Julie Baker\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But \"our chicken treats are popular,\" he tells The Salt. These include chicken caviar and \"chicken crack\" — a mixture of organic grains, organic seeds, dried meal worms and dried river shrimp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been made in the past few years about the rising popularity of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/13/146805289/why-you-should-raise-urban-chickens-at-your-own-risk\">backyard poultry farming\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 0.8 percent of households in Denver, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City owned chickens in 2010, according to a \u003ca href=\"%20http:/www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/poultry/downloads/poultry10/Poultry10_dr_Urban_Chicken_Four.pdf\">new report\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 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