Santa Barbara County Wine Country Celebrates Harvest 2016
This weekend Santa Barbara Celebrates Harvest 2016!
Silent auction items at Santa Barbara Wine’s Celebration of Harvest 2015
We are in the midst of a four day Celebration of Harvest in Santa Barbara Wine Country this weekend from today October 7 through Monday October 10. While Santa Barbara is getting famous for its grapes, it offers much more agricultural wealth than just the kind you drink!
Special Santa Barbara Wine Country Events this weekend include dinners, open houses, seminars, Vintners Visa, and the highlight of the Celebration of Harvest Weekend, the Festival’s Grand Tasting on Saturday, October 8th with noon for early entry ($125) and 1:00 for general admission ($90).
Saturday’s events begin
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Regenerative Agriculture: Now in a beer can near you!
Revolutionary and regenerative agriculture in a can from Patagonia Provisions! Coming to Whole Foods near you!
Did you know Patagonia, the revolutionary clothing company, is now trying to revolutionize food?
Just as Patagonia got people to think about the life cycle of clothing, and to get businesses to donate 1% of profits to the planet, Patagonia is now taking on FOOD. Because, as Yvon Chouinard shared last spring in Ventura, clothing companies are too slow in changing and the planet needs our help desperately. He argues that since food production is causing so many problems for climate, we need to change what we eat.
And not just what we eat, but what we drink too!
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Vin Scully Calls His Final Dodger Game
photo by Jim Friedman who flew up to San Francisco yesterday from SoCal to see the Dodgers play the Giants. The Dodgers lost but he was lucky enough to be sitting right below the Press Box. He briefly chatted with and took a few pictures of the greatest broadcaster ever!
To one of the greatest story tellers in baseball, in sports, and from the past 100 years… VIN SCULLY
by Ron Wells
What a difficult, joyous, emotional day. Vin Scully began broadcasting about the time I was born, and now he has left the broadcast booth forever. Fade to Dodger blue… Read more…
Happy Hallowine and A Toast to Ghost Wineries
Happy Ghost Hunting Day! Cheers!
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You might think of the month of October as Ghost Hunting Month, with the penultimate night of the month the perfect day to go out hunting for ghosts.
But actually the first day of October is National Ghost Hunting Day. (Who knew?)
Goals of National Ghost Hunting Day include raising public awareness of best practices and professionalism in paranormal investigation, increasing appreciation of local history and landmarks across the nation, and uniting and organizing a network of ghost hunting teams in common cause to benefit local Humane Societies and non-profit animal shelters throughout the country.
When I saw that haunted pumpkin wine label (above) for Flora Springs on Twitter, I was instantly entranced and knew exactly what wine would be perfect for Ghost Hunting: one from a Ghost Winery!
A Ghost Winery? What’s a Ghost Winery?
By 1920, California wineries numbered 700; by the end of Prohibition, in…
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The other day driving through my hometown of Ventura, which also happens to be the hometown of Patagonia, I saw my favorite bumper sticker of this election cycle, but didn’t get a chance to get a photo. Fortunately, thanks to a Facebook search, I found a sighting in Seattle: Read more…
A Taste and a Toast to Local!
A taste and a toast to local food, farmers, and beverages! Join me Sunday 9/25 and Weds 10/5! Details below!
How can people connect their food from field to fork?
More and more events around the country and indeed the world seek to do so
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Welcome Autumn! Time to Fall for Peace!
“It’s ok for our hearts to be broken over the world,” writes Joanna Macy.
“Our earth is not a supply house and a sewer.
It is our larger body. We breathe it. We taste it. we are it.”
Yesterday was the International Day of Peace and today is the first day of fall. It’s the day where day and night are equal in length. It’s a good time to reflect on equity and equality–which sound similar but aren’t the same thing.
So what are we falling for?
How about service?
How about fun?
How about peace?
How about using our intelligence to help heal the world so that we have peace, environmental justice, social justice?
But first, how about some fun! Read more…
How to Help Clean-Up Our Watery Planet: #NoDAPL 9/13, CA Cleanup Day 9/16
APOD’s image for Sept. 11, 2016 was this one, above, titled “All the Water on Planet Earth” because that’s indeed what it illustrates — all of the water on earth represented by this small drop on top of our large in comparison planet.
From our perspective from the shore or from Cousteau Society or National Geographic specials or from images of Earth from space, we think the Earth has an abundance of water, albeit mostly salt water (according to USGS, 96.5%). But the truth is that while oceans cover “70 percent of Earth’s surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth’s radius.” Read more…
Post Burning Man Decompression 2016
by Ethan YiSheng Chan
How was Burning Man for you in 2016? Did you have a wild ride? Did you ride a skateboard? A roller coaster?
A boar? A TV? A bike for miles and miles and miles only to find a cast iron clawfoot bathtub? Or Robot Heart? Or aliens?
Or a light tunnel? Or a ceiling of fire? Or a giant victrola? Read more…
Speak to a random burner!! Call a Playa phone! 973-737-BURN(2876) Or answer the phone!
While the massive art installations on the playa like the Man,
the Man 2015
the Temple,
Temple Dawn Burning Man 8/29/16 by Hans Roos
El Pulpo
and this year, the Lighthouse Read more…
art predator 