hello!
first of all, thanks to everyone who came and participated in the simple pleasures lunar eclipse february birthday celebration on wednesday. it was lots and lots of fun and hopefully worth the trek (for most of you) to the outer richmond... an extra special thank you to the botticellis, trainwreck riders, and michael musika for making time to play some of my favorite songs! it was a real treat.
secondly, for those of you who live in SF, don't forget to use your rainbow grocery coupon this month - they are found in the back of the yellow pages and are good for 20% off your whole purchase - such a deal. but only on wed, thurs, and fri, so plan accordingly if you want the discount. :) let me know if you need a coupon -i have a few extras.
thirdly, you may want to clear a space for noise pop (independent semi-local music festival) this week - tuesday through sunday! you can visit www.noisepop.com for the full schedule. some recommended shows are highlighted below... and, as a reminder (because i'm really excited about this show): conspiracy of venus, the 1-year-old all-women acapella choir i'm in, is singing at the independent on saturday march 1st, with david dondero, tulsa, and the mountain goats... it's sold out, but if you can somehow find a ticket, you should come! if you have a ticket, please get there early cuz we go first!
fourth of all (?), a reminder/recommendation to join the city garden registry at www.sfvictorygardens.org!
and now, please check out the events above!
xo
jessie
Monday, February 25, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
garden for the environment upcoming classes - basic organic fruit tree care on saturday
FEBRUARY 2008
BASIC ORGANIC FRUIT TREE CARE
Date: Saturday, February 9th | 10AM – 1PM
Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton Street, San Francisco.
GFE and Orchard Keepers, organic tree care experts, are teaming up for this extensive workshop diving into the world of fruit trees and organic fruit tree care. Practicing proper fruit tree care will insure you reap the fruits of your labor! Join us for a 3-hour session beginning with basic management practices such as site selection, soil preparation, pest and disease management, pruning and the masterful art of planting a bare root tree. Spend the afternoon discovering the specific care and maintenance techniques of Pome (such as apples) & Stone fruits (such as plums). $15; No one turned away for lack of funds.
To Pre-Register, please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment.org.
INTRODUCTION TO IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
Date: Saturday, February 23rd | 10AM – 1PM
Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton Street, San Francisco.
Join Garden for the Environment and the Urban Farmer Store for this workshop on the basics of drip irrigation. Learn from local expert and Urban Farmer Store Founder, Tom Bressan, the most effective and efficient ways to deliver water to your landscape with minimal waste! From installing irrigation systems to appropriate irrigation design, this workshop will help you conserve water at the faucet. This Water Conservation workshop is $5.
To Pre-Register, please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment.org.
MARCH 2008
URBAN COMPOSTING
Date: Saturday, March 1st | 10AM – 12NOON
Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton Street, San Francisco.
Don't let your food scraps go to waste! The City has found that approximately 45% of San Francisco's residential garbage is valuable organic material that can be composted into a rich fertilizer for your soil! Learn what you can do to reduce waste, save money and help the environment. This workshop will cover the basics of both backyard and worm composting, so don't miss out! FREE!
To Pre-Register, please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment.org.
BASIC ORGANIC FRUIT TREE CARE
Date: Saturday, February 9th | 10AM – 1PM
Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton Street, San Francisco.
GFE and Orchard Keepers, organic tree care experts, are teaming up for this extensive workshop diving into the world of fruit trees and organic fruit tree care. Practicing proper fruit tree care will insure you reap the fruits of your labor! Join us for a 3-hour session beginning with basic management practices such as site selection, soil preparation, pest and disease management, pruning and the masterful art of planting a bare root tree. Spend the afternoon discovering the specific care and maintenance techniques of Pome (such as apples) & Stone fruits (such as plums). $15; No one turned away for lack of funds.
To Pre-Register, please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment.org.
INTRODUCTION TO IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
Date: Saturday, February 23rd | 10AM – 1PM
Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton Street, San Francisco.
Join Garden for the Environment and the Urban Farmer Store for this workshop on the basics of drip irrigation. Learn from local expert and Urban Farmer Store Founder, Tom Bressan, the most effective and efficient ways to deliver water to your landscape with minimal waste! From installing irrigation systems to appropriate irrigation design, this workshop will help you conserve water at the faucet. This Water Conservation workshop is $5.
To Pre-Register, please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment.org.
MARCH 2008
URBAN COMPOSTING
Date: Saturday, March 1st | 10AM – 12NOON
Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton Street, San Francisco.
Don't let your food scraps go to waste! The City has found that approximately 45% of San Francisco's residential garbage is valuable organic material that can be composted into a rich fertilizer for your soil! Learn what you can do to reduce waste, save money and help the environment. This workshop will cover the basics of both backyard and worm composting, so don't miss out! FREE!
To Pre-Register, please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment.org.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Pie Ranch popcorn at Rural Routes Film Fest at Red Vic tonight and tomorrow
The Red Vic Movie House and Pie Ranch Join Forces in Presenting
the San Francisco Premiere of : RURAL ROUTE FILM FESTIVAL
The Red Vic will serve organic popcorn grown locally
February 5 & 6, 2008
At the SF premiere of the Rural Route Film Festival, the Red Vic Movie House will sell organic popcorn grown at Pie Ranch, a educational non-profit farm located south of Pescadero on the San Mateo Coast. Students from Mission High School have been helping to grow and shell the corn (remove the kernels from the husk).
The Rural Route Film Festival was created to highlight works that deal with rural people and places. The festival, which showcases rural themes in an urban environment, features award-winning narrative, documentary and experimental films, as well as music video. Based in New York City - one of the world's largest urban centers - the festival brings selections to other cities and small towns all around the world. This year, the Rural Route Film Festival makes its San Francisco debut at the Red Vic Movie House which is screening two programs: Rural Route Tour on Tuesday Feb. 5th and Go Organic! on Wednesday Feb. 6th.
Pie Ranch is a center for education and social change. Through hands-on learning about the full cycle of food production - from seed and shoot to scrumptious meal to steaming compost - it inspires people to build a healthier food system. While much of its activity is based on the farm, the Ranch also works in the city with individuals, organizations, businesses and public agencies to foster stronger relationships between urban and rural communities. A city-based pie shop, Mission Pie, has grown in the Mission district of San Francisco, serving as the urban link to Pie Ranch and to other local farms. Motivated to be a supportive business collaborator with Pie Ranch, the shop provides the youth employment development part of the program by hiring 9 Mission High students. Information about Pie Rance will also be provided at these showings.
The Rural Route Tour program contains both fun and serious pieces from around the world. Included are films concerning Arctic owls in Montana (Snowies, Dir. Elliot Kennerson, US); Canadian lawnmower racing (Wanderlust 2: Thunder on the Track, Dir. Walter Forsberg, Canada); vignettes of life in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains (Pictograph, Dirs. Miso and Lida Suchy, Ukraine); and the story of a plastic lawn doe who finds herself lost on the gritty streets of Brooklyn, NY (Dear Deer Dir. Alan Webber, US).
Total running time is 97 minutes.
The Go Organic! program is a new component to the Rural Route tour and is essential viewing. These films provide a refreshing education on the current state of agriculture, and point out sustainable and organic practices that we all can take part in. The Meatrix (Dir. Louis Fox, US) and Frankensteer (Dirs. Ted Remerowski & Marrin Canell, US) expose the ways of unethical farming, while Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Dir. Faith Morgan, Cuba) and Back to the Land…Again (Dir. Gretta Wing Miller, US) provide us with inspiring role models. Also included is Academy Award Winner for Best Student Documentary, Ladies of the Land (Dir. Megan Thompson, 2006).
Total running time is 110 minutes.
SHOW TIMES:
Rural Route Tour: Tuesday: 7:15, 9:20; Go Organic! Wednesday: 2:00, 7:00, 9:20
TICKETS:
Available starting January 28 on-line via http:www.redvicmoviehouse.com. Also available 20 min. before each screening at the Red Vic box office. $8.50 regular; $6.50 for 2:00 matinees; $5 for seniors (62 and over) and children (12 and under) at all times.
the San Francisco Premiere of : RURAL ROUTE FILM FESTIVAL
The Red Vic will serve organic popcorn grown locally
February 5 & 6, 2008
At the SF premiere of the Rural Route Film Festival, the Red Vic Movie House will sell organic popcorn grown at Pie Ranch, a educational non-profit farm located south of Pescadero on the San Mateo Coast. Students from Mission High School have been helping to grow and shell the corn (remove the kernels from the husk).
The Rural Route Film Festival was created to highlight works that deal with rural people and places. The festival, which showcases rural themes in an urban environment, features award-winning narrative, documentary and experimental films, as well as music video. Based in New York City - one of the world's largest urban centers - the festival brings selections to other cities and small towns all around the world. This year, the Rural Route Film Festival makes its San Francisco debut at the Red Vic Movie House which is screening two programs: Rural Route Tour on Tuesday Feb. 5th and Go Organic! on Wednesday Feb. 6th.
Pie Ranch is a center for education and social change. Through hands-on learning about the full cycle of food production - from seed and shoot to scrumptious meal to steaming compost - it inspires people to build a healthier food system. While much of its activity is based on the farm, the Ranch also works in the city with individuals, organizations, businesses and public agencies to foster stronger relationships between urban and rural communities. A city-based pie shop, Mission Pie, has grown in the Mission district of San Francisco, serving as the urban link to Pie Ranch and to other local farms. Motivated to be a supportive business collaborator with Pie Ranch, the shop provides the youth employment development part of the program by hiring 9 Mission High students. Information about Pie Rance will also be provided at these showings.
The Rural Route Tour program contains both fun and serious pieces from around the world. Included are films concerning Arctic owls in Montana (Snowies, Dir. Elliot Kennerson, US); Canadian lawnmower racing (Wanderlust 2: Thunder on the Track, Dir. Walter Forsberg, Canada); vignettes of life in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains (Pictograph, Dirs. Miso and Lida Suchy, Ukraine); and the story of a plastic lawn doe who finds herself lost on the gritty streets of Brooklyn, NY (Dear Deer Dir. Alan Webber, US).
Total running time is 97 minutes.
The Go Organic! program is a new component to the Rural Route tour and is essential viewing. These films provide a refreshing education on the current state of agriculture, and point out sustainable and organic practices that we all can take part in. The Meatrix (Dir. Louis Fox, US) and Frankensteer (Dirs. Ted Remerowski & Marrin Canell, US) expose the ways of unethical farming, while Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Dir. Faith Morgan, Cuba) and Back to the Land…Again (Dir. Gretta Wing Miller, US) provide us with inspiring role models. Also included is Academy Award Winner for Best Student Documentary, Ladies of the Land (Dir. Megan Thompson, 2006).
Total running time is 110 minutes.
SHOW TIMES:
Rural Route Tour: Tuesday: 7:15, 9:20; Go Organic! Wednesday: 2:00, 7:00, 9:20
TICKETS:
Available starting January 28 on-line via http:www.redvicmoviehouse.com. Also available 20 min. before each screening at the Red Vic box office. $8.50 regular; $6.50 for 2:00 matinees; $5 for seniors (62 and over) and children (12 and under) at all times.
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