Posts by Penny Leff
Alice Waters Sandwich
Eight years ago last month, I was hired to manage the Berkeley Farmers’ Markets, a thirty-hour per week job that paid ten dollars an hour.
Meat Is a Hot Potato
Making policy can be tough work, especially when those policies affect what we eat.
Laissez-faire it A’int
Strawberries and tomatoes, apple cider and green beans. Berkeley Farmers’ Markets bustle with an abundance of the best of each season’s harvest.
Window on the Ecology Center
The big yellow truck usually arrives a little late to the Derby Street Tuesday Farmers’ Market. A casual shopper might raise an eyebrow, thinking these late arrivals got up late or took a long lunch break.
Cabbage Meets Cars
As the co-manager of the Ecology Center’s farmers’ markets, I know that birthing a market involves more than lining up growers.
The Long Drive to Fresno
I drove to Fresno and back yesterday, in my old pickup truck. Traffic was light, and I drove fast, but it still took three hours each way from Oakland, and used two tanks of gas.
From the Farms: Water Stories
We always have to conserve water, especially in drought years. We only irrigate the trees for about their first five years.
