Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
This is what $40 can buy you at the Berkeley Tuesday Farmers Market…
- Sungold cherry tomatoes
- Red cherry tomatoes
- Carrots, 2 bunches
- Sweet Corn, 3 ears
- Apricots
- Seascape Strawberries, 3 baskets
- Red Butter Lettuce, 1 large head
- Celery
- Figs, 1 basket
- Garlic, 2 heads
- Yellow Tomato
- Scallions
- Parsley
- Chocolate Pecan Chewy Cookie (not shown)
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Our new recycling and compost cans were just delivered. They are significantly larger than our old cans. We do fill our small trash can every week, but we always have extra recycling and compost that doesn’t fit. In SF the larger blue and green carts are FREE and have no additional pick-up charges! Yay! I think now with the larger green and blue carts we will have less that goes into our black cart. So cool.
San Francisco makes it super easy to recycle. Everything goes into the same can, and they will recycle practically anything. Also the compost program here is great! The green can takes all food scraps, food-soiled paper, and yard trimmings. So between the two cans we get rid of most of our waste.
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
This weekend in the Mission District of San Francisco is the annual Carnaval Festival. The parade route goes right by our house. Its pretty amazing to see, and all just by walking out the front door. Although the festivities make normal life a little more difficult (our street is closed to traffic, there is no parking anywhere in the mission, and there are people camped out everywhere), its always pretty exciting. San Franciscans love their street fairs and parades! Pretty much every weekend during the summer months there is a festival of some sort in some neighborhood celebrating something. Is pretty amazing really.
“The Festival draws hundreds of thousands of people for two days of dancing Salsa, Samba, Reggae, Tango, Hip- Hop, Merengue, Calypso, Cha Cha Cha, Cumbia, and Mambo into the evening. Food vendors offer traditional delicacies, while others sell crafts native to the Carnaval countries of their heritage.”
