The New Year is here and Spring is just around the corner ! What better way to start 2023 with a fool-proof way to improve your health in every way possible? What is the key to this you may ask, well I will share. Growing your own food! Planting, growing, and gardening your own fruits

In my ongoing Town Crier hat, I thought it important to update my Beloved Community about the ongoing food collapse. I know this is not fun to hear and we are all in overwhelm, but I believe it’s best to be real, especially since we can mitigate the impacts if we act NOW. I have…

by Wendy McCall, ExCom Chair The current food systems on which we all depend: our farmers, laborers, global and local connections are experiencing a collapse like dominoes falling, will have cumulative effects that will continue to wreak havoc on our food systems for years to come. The reality of this is already hitting us hard …

By KYRA GOTTESMAN | Correspondent August 19, 2022 at 4:00 a.m. OROVILLE – The collapse of the food system and how to mitigate its impacts will be the topic of a talk hosted by the Butte County Local Food Network on Saturday. The presentation by Pamm Larry, BCLFN director, is from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Riverbend …

August has always been a time of transitions- school starts, the intense heat of the summer peaks and starts to decline and our gardens are in transition from summer crops to Fall and winter ones. It’s a busy time when we are re-adjusting to the lazy days of summer into the frenzy of harvest and …

Greetings, Local Foodie Friends: Enjoying the heat? It isn’t stopping us and others from getting out in community at local food events to celebrate our amazing community! Just bring that squirt bottle and our new found friend, a wet sarong to put over your shoulders and you’ll feel like you are in air conditioning…

As summer progresses and the heat sets in, let’s give thanks for all the glorious bounty in our gardens and lives. We are pretty darn lucky to live in such a beautiful world at this moment in time. We are cherishing it. In the midst of so much going on “out there,” there is so …

Hello, Friends- How is your garden growing? It’s been a very long time since we’ve shared. We’ve missed you. As long overdue updates: We had an incredible BLITZ, with over 80 gardens installed. This brings total BLITZ gardens numbers which YOU, the community, have constructed and installed since March 2020 to 250 across Butte County! Thanks, again, …

Friends! We could not have done this without you because YOU ARE THE GARDEN BLITZ!! Thank you so much, from the bottom of our hearts for your open hearts, hands, strong backs and patience with the install loading process! You were amazing troopers. Know that you have done huge things for our community and our …

We hope you had, and continue to have, a grand holiday season, however you celebrate it! We, like the winter, have sort of pulled in and gone underground with the cold and rain and taking mental health days. But we did not want the year to end without a short note of huge gratitude, appreciation …

This Giving Tuesday, we are inviting the community to come together to create a stronger, more secure food system by making sure all are fed. Your gift today will support at-risk families that continue to deal with the ongoing struggle of recovery from fires. And due to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the first $5000 …

Giving Tuesday is just a week away so we hope you keep your community in mind and become a member of the Farmers Marketmobile Angel Club. By joining in, you support local fire survivor families AND our our local farmers by providing fresh, locally grown food to those who need it most. How do your donations …

Greetings- This is our first attempt at a larger fundraising campaign, so please bear with us. We are reaching out at this time to remind you that Giving Tuesday is November 30th this year. We are so blessed to a very generous donor pledge to match every donation up to $5000 to support Fire Survivor Families …

Greetings- Come on down to the Community Center on Sunday and get your local veggies! Please note: We have a different Fall schedule in alignment with the Community Center. We will be up there this Sunday the 14th, Nov. 21, Dec. 5 and 19. The Center has asked us to start at 10am to better align …

It’s that time of year, again, when the trees provide us with an abundance of brown matter for our compost bins and mulch for gardens. The leaves are falling, and aren’t they a gorgeous sight this year? The last few years there have plenty of golds and yellows but this year the reds are breathtaking! …

Locally grown seeds matter Did you know that seeds acclimate to their region? Over the years, if you keep replanting with the generations of seeds produced in your garden, you will get varietals that have survived our unique growing conditions and create plants more suited to our bioregion. As this article states: “Local Seed is the Heart …

The air is getting cleaner and the mornings, at least, are cooler. It’s the season for O’Henry Peaches! Ever taste one? Rumor has it that in a sea of delicious peach varieties available over the course of our local peach season, they are the BEST that grow in this area. Their combined tang, texture and …

We hope you are taking good care with the smoke and having to hunker down again, due to fires. We, along with the rest of the community, are learning that it’s time to surrender to Nature and shift our lives accordingly. Our hearts and prayers go out to all in the mountains most impacted by …

In November 2018, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history, the Camp Fire, consumed Paradise and the surrounding areas of Butte Creek Canyon, Concow, and Magalia. Paradise and Concow lost 95% of their structures, while much of Magalia and Butte Creek Canyon were also destroyed. The damages included nearly 19,000 structures, over 153,000 …

Reprinted with love from http://www.nettlestreadlesandlove.com/st-johns-wort-oil-dye-and-magic/ By Alysun I knew when we were getting near the Summer Solstice last year (2020) that it was time to harvest St. John’s Wort to make oil. I had recently signed up for Kami McBride’s Herbal Oils course and was excited to try to make it, but I had never seen the …