Nine-year-old Orion Skye Smit-Holm will be selling the first apples, cider and dried fruit ever offered at the Oakland Community Farmers Market this Saturday.

Planting Justice is hosting a Rooftop Garden Workparty this Thursday from 10:30 am to 2 pm.  Si se te antoja trabajar en el jardin or if you are in the mood for some seeding, transplating, propagating and garden talk, email Gavin Raders at gavin@plantingjustice.org.

New partners Kitchen Table Talks and the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) are co-hosting a panel discussion to explore ways to distribute local produce better. It will be held on Tuesday, March 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Our friends at Silicon Valley Debug, a part of Youth Outlook, asked five members to keep food diaries of what they ate and drank for two days. All five have different backgrounds, jobs, living situations, and consequently -- dietary habits.

Oakland has many neighborhoods where social action has improved food access, in West Oakland in particular. But many people continue to live in areas that qualify as food deserts, where there are no outlets to purchase healthy food within walking distance.

Are school gardens a crock or what? is the question writer Caitlin Flanagan asks in the latest issue of The Atlantic Magazine and its online site.

For those who want to celebrate the Winter Solstice on Monday without staying up all night listening to The Beatles' “Here Comes the Sun,” for those who want to learn to make their own jam so they h

What if it was impossible for YOU to legally get a meal in Oakland? Welcome to the daily humiliations of undeath.

Enough is enough.

Tonight, zombies and other members of the local undead community (as well as their friends and supporters) will gather in Jack London Square to march for undead civil rights. Oakland Local zombie reporter Amy Gahran will be on hand to cover the event.

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Tavon Frazier is a skinny 9-year-old squirming in front of his Styrofoam lunch tray. He's eaten most of his chicken taco and his friends, all wearing the navy polo shirts of East Oakland's Korematsu Discovery Academy, are wiggling around him, chewing on their flour tortillas and nibbling on baby carrots. Tavon didn't stop at the salad bar on his way to the cafeteria table today.

The deal went down by the Berkeley Marina. Matt Markovich handed over several hundred dollars to a man in a van and drove away 70 pounds heavier.

“It was like Miami Vice contraband,” Markovich, 36, said recently while sitting at the dining room table in his cozy Oakland home.

from the dig.coop and the East Oakland Boxing Association:

East Oakland Youth Facility Completes Green Job Training Program & Unveils Model site