September in the Garden: Fall Is Coming—But It Isn’t Here Yet September in Southern California is a strange month in the garden. The mornings may begin to feel cooler, the days are getting shorter, and every garden center...
Walk through a nursery and nearly every fruit tree has a secret. That Honeycrisp apple is not growing on Honeycrisp roots. The Meyer lemon may have a completely different citrus variety below the soil. The peach, plum,...
Well, San Diego gardeners, August has arrived, and apparently summer has decided subtlety is overrated. We’ve been dealing with an extended stretch of heat, warm nights, and plenty of humidity. As of August 19, the National...
How We Lost Control of Our Seeds—and How We Get It Back For most of human agricultural history, buying seeds every year would have been a pretty strange concept. You grew food. You harvested food. You saved seeds from the...
Summer has officially settled into San Diego, and while we may not get the dramatic thunderstorms that much of the Southwest experiences, July often brings us the effects of North American monsoon season. Increased...
This is not anti-grocery store. It is about reconnecting people with local food, seasonal eating, and community growers. Start small: buy from one local farmer, visit a farmers market, or grow a few herbs. Y2T belief: Food...
Low grocery prices often fail to account for soil depletion, water pollution, health impacts, and other hidden costs. The system externalizes those expenses elsewhere. Y2T thought: The cheapest food in the short term can...
Victory gardens once produced a significant amount of America’s food. As convenience culture expanded, many people lost direct knowledge of growing food. Y2T believes growing even one edible plant can reconnect people to...
Modern grocery stores offer thousands of products, but many are built from the same handful of industrial ingredients. Different packaging often hides the same basic inputs. Y2T takeaway: Choice doesn’t mean much if the...
Many growers operate on razor-thin margins while distributors and retailers control pricing. Growers take the risks while other parts of the supply chain often capture the profits. Y2T perspective: The closer you buy to the...