Davis Art About, Farm-to-School, Pomegranate Salon and Musings with a Davis Community Member

2nd Friday Davis Art About, Farm-to-School and Pomegranate Salon.
Jeremy chats with several Davis community members about this upcoming 2nd Friday Davis Art About on Friday, May 13th from 5-9pm.

Rich, owner of Pomegranate Salon in Davis CA. This Friday, Pomegranate will be hosting several artists, including musicians, and also Berryessa Gap, a local winery. All proceeds from the wine sales at Pomegranate on Friday will support the Davis Farm-to-School program.

Talia Hack-Davies from Davis Farm-to-School came on to talk about the efforts that the Farm-to-School program has made in the community including recycling, school gardens, farm tours and healthy school lunches in Davis public schools. Talia also talked about the upcoming Tour-de-Cluck happening in Davis this weekend.

Jeremy also chats with several artists whose work will be featured at Pomegranate Salon on May 13th, including Chris Bell, Alexander Bonack and Morgan Hibbert-King.

Finally, Melanie Glover from the Downtown Davis Business Association, who coordinates the monthly 2nd Friday Art About events in Davis, chats with Jeremy about this Fridays events. To get a map of the events and locations for the Art About, check out the Downtown Davis Business Association website.

Farming, Humanure and Steinbeck - Musings with a Davis Community Member.
Community member, Bobby Johnson, chats with Neda, Anna Ruth and Jeremy about everything from urban agriculture to humanure. Bobby speaks about his undergraduate education in soil science, his love for tomatoes, the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture, a non-profit that he helped to start, and his favorite crop, asparagus, and the phenomenon that occurs with your urine after consuming asparagus.

Bobby also chats about his work on the UC Davis Student Farm, human poop and how to utilize humane waste for recycling nutrients into our agriculture system. Bobby references the Humanure Handbook by Joseph C. Jenkins. Bobby's favorite books also include To a God Unknown and Cup of Gold, both by John Steinbeck.

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