Best Guacamole

I'm not the type to withhold a recipe if I have a great one. I want people love their food as much as I love mine in hopes that people will hold it up to the freshest standards because it's the BEST! Farmers Markets mmmm... here's a pictures of some fresh farmers market goodies I'd like to share with you:

GUACAMOLE - serves 5ish

3 ripe avocados [fresh from the Farmers Market, if they have Pinkerton - do it!]

1 medium tomato or several small tomatoes, homegrown are so fabulous and easy

3 huge garlic cloves

1 whole lime

a bunch of cilantro

some chopped onion or green onion

3 chili peppers, jalapeno, or serano.. whatever you like, spicier the better for me :)

Mmm chop it mix it glob it BA-da-Bing

Note to self - upload some tasty pictures.

PS those are homebrews made by my lover, with my assistance of course.

Coolest thing I've seen lately:

SEEDBOMB DISPENSERS

Boycott at Arco

On Saturday, June 26th, Harrison and I walked to the train station to catch a train to my scheduled BP boycott at the Arco off College Blvd.. a 2 mile walk from the station. That morning we joined hands at Hands Across the Sand in Oceanside between lifeguard station 1 and 6, more than 100 people were in line I'm sure. The whole day was spectacular. When we got on the train, we bumped into Gabriel from La Milpa Organica (and another dude, Raul maybe). I sat with Gabe, showed him pictures of the mobilization, we got to talking and decided to boycott then go to Gianni's Pizza together where the ingredients are always fresh and LOCAL! Gianni's has the best effin pizza I've ever had, for real. The freshness makes all the difference. We got one person who pulled into the Arco station to turn around and go to a different station. 1 person who may not ever go to an Arco again and might tell her friends and family that Arco = BP = evil. Who knows?

 I was holding a broom and sweeping the concrete to get attention and because BP NEEDS TO CLEAN UP THE SPILL!!!

Hands Across the Sand

Hands Across the Sand

a mobilization - no to oil drilling, yes to clean energy

I am so thrilled that this is only ONE of the MANY events that went on in San Diego County!!! In just one tiny little piece of all the coastal cities that came together and even cities in the central regions of the United States, we peacefully held hands, and asked politely "can we please have clean energy now? we would like to stop polluting our oceans and our skies with carbon dioxide emissions." You wanted America to show you what they want and President Obama, this is just the beginning.

BP Boycott

I'm doing a BP Boycott this Saturday, same day as Hands Across the Sand so hopefully I'll have a good turn out. Here is the information if you live in San Diego - it will be in Oceanside.


http://www.meetup.com/HuffPostGreen/7903/


 Little babies with oil on their feathers.



These guys are being taken somewhere to get cleaned up, but even so the birds rarely make it since they've ingested so much oil trying to preen themselves... oil is toxic.



Once a White Ibis.




The oil is everywhere and the dispersants that are being used to make a lot of the oil sink has already killed 25% of marine life below 500 feet, as a test constructed by the EPA found. What more can we do to this planet? Let's get off of oil. Natural gas is no better.

Thanks to the Huffington Post for the photographs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/03/gulf-oil-spill-photos-ani_n_560813.html#s98947

GUERILLA GARDENING escapade einz

Upon arriving to San Diego with my lover last October, I started doing many new ecologically wonderful things. We started our organic garden and we have grown from lettuce, broccoli, and cauliflower to just about everything - from beets and carrots to tomatoes and peppers to all sorts of herbs, beans, squash, and the list goes on. Around this same time I also began learning about succulents and just how easy many of them are to grow from cuttings, so out I went night after night all kinds of stealth on my teal/orange bicycle clipping succulents around the neighborhood.

So I have this mass collection of all kinds of wonderful drought tolerant plants now in all sorts of places, the gift just keeps on giving. Now I feel the need to give back. Around my neck of the woods, there are many plots of dirt covered in weeds and trash that just look so sad and worthless. Wouldn't it be lovely to see beautiful plants in all shapes and sizes that need little to no water decorating the streets? That's what I thought... so I adopted my first. It's off the 78 going into my neighborhood and step one was cleaning it up. Tons of cigarette butts, trash, hubcaps, boxes, and bags. After the cleaning was done I recruited my boyfriend to help plant the little fellas and off we went. The dirt patch of nastyness turned into this:

I look a little ragged... so do the succulents at the moment, but it's a work in progress and I've barely scratched the surface of that weedy ground! We mainly put in jade, but there are couple natives from Catalina, an island off the coast of California as well as a native of San Diego county. Soon I'll be cloning native plants like mallow and sage for guerilla gardening galore!

BP News update...

This may not be an update for those of you following the spill. It makes my heart cry to see the pictures of dead animals, but makes me REALLY pissed off is that workers for BP, the Coast Guard, Fish and Wildlife Services... all these people are hauling millions more of the oil covered creatures out in boats away from the spill and throwing them away somewhere so no one can see how terrible the damage really is.

No press is allowed on public beaches all along the Gulf Coast. No workers are allowed to speak to reporters or anyone about what's going on. PEOPLE ARE GETTING ARRESTED just for having cameras on the beaches. Where is our freedom of speech? Why is there such a massive cover-up? The new estimated amount of oil spilling into the Gulf daily = 50,000 - 60,000 BARRELS of oil PER DAY!!!

Here's a cool idea though:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/19/cleaning-up-an-oil-spill-with-hair-and-mushrooms/

When an oil spill occured in San Francisco in 2007, it was cleaned up with hair and mushrooms. The mushrooms literally eat the hair and oil and digest it making ... oyster mushrooms. Paul Stemets, help us save the world!