Essays & Publishing History


  Publications

Articles:

Permaculture Research Institute


Surviving in the Cash Economy Once Your Food Forest is Established /
New Hope for Small Farmers, and Rural Areas - An interview with an innovator in farming.


Introduction to Weston Price

Six Recipes for all that Zucchini and Summer Squash

Winter is a Great Time for Gardening in ‘Mediterranean’ Climate Areas!


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Practical Homeowner: "Ordering Seeds" (January 1993)

Oakland Tribune: "Great Gardens" monthly column, from August to November 1992

BayFood: "The Kitchen Garden, A Twelve Month Guide" (March 1991)

Organic Gardening: "The Cycles in Our Lives" essay (May 1989)

Berkeley Monthly: "A Gardener's Library (December 1988)

Diablo Magazine:
"Plants of a Different Color: Unusual East Bay Nurseries" (March 1989)
"Southwestern Gardens" (March 1988).

Northern California Home & Gardens:
"Golden Hindsights: The Return of the Cottage Garden" (January 1988) with photos by author.
Monthly columns: "Antique Apples", "California's Real Landscape", "I Cook Therefore I Garden", "A Pattern Language for Gardens", etc. (November 1987 - April 1988)

San Francisco Bay Guardian: "The Garbage Time Bomb" (November 4, 1987)

Diablo Magazine: "Their Dirty Business" [national scope of local solid waste issues] (October 1987)

East Bay Express:
"The One That Got Away: The Bay Area's Disappearing Fishing Industry" (February 1985)
"Losing Track: The East Bay's Former Electric Railroad System" (July 1983)


Editor/Publisher/Creator of "The Creekwalker's Journal" (1983-1985), reviewed by San Francisco Focus magazine and Whole Earth Review.

Whole Earth Review:
"A Crime Lab For Animals" (Spring 1990)
"H. O. M. E." (Summer 1982)
"Real Politics in Switzerland " (Fall 1981)


Books:
"Strawberries in November: A Guide to Year-Round Gardening in the East Bay" published by Heyday Books, Berkeley, May 1987.
[Reviewd by Fine Gardening, Sunset Magazine, Contra Costa Times, West County Times, Oakland Tribune, Berkeley Voice, Montclarion, East Bay Express, Bay Guardian, Daily Californian, HortIdeas, Indoor Citrus Growers; book-signings at Cody's, Piedmont Book Company, Whole Earth Access, Sierra Club, Thompson Garden Center, C. Markus Hardware; speaking engagements at Magic Gardens Nursery, Berkeley Ecology Center, Skyline Garden Club, Hillside Garden Club, El Sobrante Garden Club, Macy's-San Francisco, Park Day School Garden Tour; radio appearances on KPFA-Berkeley, KKCY-SF, KSRO-Santa Rosa.

"Childbirth Wisdom From The World's Oldest Societies" published by Congdon & Weed, New York, 1984. Excerpted in East West Journal and Mothering Magazine; reviewed by Whole Earth Review and others. Paperback release by East West Journal Books, July 1990.



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Essays and other writings which will probably never (or never again) be published in print anywhere since there is no magazine, except Whole Earth Review, that publishes opinion essays on such esoteric and niche subjects.

A Meditation on Honesty and Play in the form of a Movie Review

A Flower Child Visits the Land of Glasnost - The USSR's breakup compared to the U.S. Sixties

Upton Sinclair's EPIC

Mexico 1971

Redefining the Farm Problem: Why farming is NOT a good example of "pure competition" in economics and how the problem of farm surpluses could better be solved.

Guide to New Gaul

So You Can Remember