A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO I FILMED NOVELLA CARPENTER, author of “Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer.” Michael Krasny, the host of KQED’s “Forum” program, led the conversation with Novella. It was a full house in Dominican University of California’s Angelico Hall because Carpenter’s 2009 book was selected as the book for this […]
Sharing the harvest: Community Gardens to dedicate orchard site
Benicia Community Gardens is expanding again, this time preparing to plant a community orchard, Executive Director Elena Karoulina said. The orchard will be put in an unlandscaped area of Heritage Presbyterian Church’s grounds, the same site as the first local community garden, named Swenson, Karoulina said.