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Description:
This is an Ojai, CA locavore project for 2009.
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Board shutdown...
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Registered members:
The Eat Local Project is growing, and to better serve the membership,
we are in the process of transitioning to a dedicated forum (
[link] )
The new forum is complimentary to the new web site, [link],
and will be the focal point of all future discussion. To ease the... more »
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core vs second tier practice
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Dear Locavores,
This practice represents a big leap from my previous knowing and
dabbling in conscious consumerism.
I cannot commit to core practice at this time but have already begun
an "80/20" lifestyle and am making new decisions every single day
about what I eat what I purchase and what and how I may grow and... more »
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SoCal News filming Sunday June 8
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Hello Friends!
Just talked with Carmen Gomez at Time Warner SoCal News (
[link] ). Her crew will come to our home (The
Young's) at 1:00 PM on Sunday June 8 and will film for approx one
hour. They want to interview Joanne and me, film our vegetable garden,
and interview a few of the "core" participants. The finished product... more »
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Clarification May 21 2008
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Hello Friends,
Ian asks a great question - what's up with 50 members of the Google
group, but only 17 in the core group?
Answer: Joining the Google group is only a sign of interest in staying
abreast of the project. The core group is at this point solely through
declaration.
Another point - we have had one person who initially thought they... more »
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Update May 20, 2008
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Things are staying exciting! We got a contact today from a woman who
would like to film us for So Cal News!
This Google group now has 50 members!!! We are growing!
Our website is underway. If you have interest in being an
administrator of the site, let me know. kych...@pacbell.net .
We have decided that salt will be an exception for the core group.... more »
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Meeting Ventura July 6
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Hello,
Just a heads-up! Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions of Ventura (I'm a
board member) will dedicate the entirety of its July 6 general meeting
to our project and directly associated issues.
The meeting is from 3-5 PM at EP Foster Library in Ventura.
I will post a flyer, as we have one. Please pass it on in the... more »
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ReGrowing Goddess Moon
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kia ora Kris and Jo,
for adding me to the group.
and thanks to Rachel Main for the info on Grow Food Party Crew ...
hosting an Edible Landscaping Party in your yard/garden.
I think I am up for organizing a similar Goddess Moon venture --
courtesy our Family Tree Nursery Collective --
which currently has 40-50 young mulberry trees, 2-3 feet high, looking... more »
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Strawberries now?
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Our friend and member, Donna Stephens posted a valuable thought to the
forum and I felt I would be good here too.
***I have thought about the fact that we will formally begin being
locavores on January 1st '09 in the midst of winter. It isn't
cheating is it, to prepare now? Strawberry season will be over next... more »
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Notes from 4 members
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Alecia Caine, one of us, sent this great video link – looks like what
some of us are looking for!
[link]
Karen Schmidt passes on the following:
Hi Kris & Jo,
Thanks again for the great meeting last week, and for undertaking this
wonderful project. I'm eager to help in whatever way I can.... more »
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