What happened to the food words?
I’m super excited that my book about what I’ve learned at the food co-op is going to be published by…
Category: Accidentally I’m a grocer
How small grocery stores became illegible
Another short clip from the book I’ve been working on about my involvement at the food co-op in Orange. In…
Joining the cold chain
Here’s another short clip from the book I’ve been working on about my involvement at the food co-op in Orange. …
The koan and the magic trick: the food system, explained
NOTE: I’ve been working on a book about what I’ve learned in the grocery business, and this is a short…
Attention/exhaustion
This summer I’ve been re-reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, and…
Fast forward
Two weeks ago, the first week of the COVID-19 ramp-down of so many of the systems that keep our modern…
Taking stock
How are you celebrating the new year and new decade? At our food co-op we really know how to have…
Everyone’s market?
I just finished grading the final papers from a big introductory class on food systems, in which I’ve been trying…
Walking the democracy talk
Even here in the bluest of states, there were splotches of red in the 2016 election, and our store is…
Revisiting “Grocery Story”
Back in May, our food co-op hosted author Jon Steinman who was on the first leg of a very long…
