Fall Harvest 2021

    On the eve of its 50th anniversary, the East Bay’s top destination restaurant discovers its parking lot community By Derrick Schneider | Illustrations by Cathy Raingarden   In March 2020, when Covid shelter-in-place orders began, the Bay Area food community gave a collective, worried gulp. Restaurants don’t run on high margins, so any…

    Photography by Gene Dominique Midsummer found Farms to Grow, Inc. launching its 8th season of the Freedom Farmers’ Market at a new venue in Oakland’s Temescal district. The unique market comes with a mission: “To bring traditional legacy foods from Black farmers and other sustainable farmers into Oakland as we engage a community…

As you pulled this magazine out of your market bag and set it on your kitchen table, Chez Panisse has just turned 50 years old. And if you also pulled out some brilliantly colored peppers, a fat striped tomato, plump figs, some glossy eggplants, and enticing ears of corn, these are far more likely to be…

Community service, fair wages, plus some healthy and flavorful takeout, all in one package By Rachel Trachten | Photos by Cheryl Angelina Koehler   If there’s been one theme in the 2021 economic recovery, it’s that workers are demanding higher wages and better working conditions. But for Gabriel Cole, CEO and cofounder of the Emeryville-based social…

Story and photos by Bethany Kaylor During a hot week in July, a group of teenage girls and gender-expansive youth gathered early each morning at Willard Middle School in Berkeley. Their goal was to build a 200-square-foot greenhouse for Growing Leaders, a youth gardening entrepreneurship program based at Willard and Berkeley Technology Academy. After a…

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By Barbara Kobsar  |  Photos by Rachel Stanich I’m in Brentwood, driving by fields and fields of corn, a crop that’s synonymous with the fall harvest in these neighboring farms. The promise of finding beautiful peppers, tomatoes, melons, and fresh greens is making every mile more exciting.     G&S Farms My first stop is…