Easy Spring Vegetables for Small Gardens
Snap peas and Tokyo turnips are hardy, cool-season vegetables well-suited to Bay Area gardens. Here’s how to grow and cook them.
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A Landscaper Rethinks East Bay Gardens
My landscape maintenance company has a front row seat to how climate change is changing Bay Area gardens. Here’s what a water-wise garden looks like.
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Seeding Urban Gardens with Love
Two Bay Area gardens are getting a boost from a new, country-wide seed sharing model promoting permaculture.
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Portola Garden District Returns to Its Roots
Down a busy street overflowing with groceries, taquerias, Chinese medicine shops, and small businesses, an unassuming dead end is home to a thriving community garden, which also got greener during the pandemic.
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North Bay Towns Embrace Drought Gardens
The conundrums of whether or not to spend water on gardening during a drought are many. Growing backyard food is not just enjoyable, it also cuts down on greenhouse gasses from food transport and storage. Maintaining – or expanding – ornamental gardens is therapeutic but also can sustain pollinators and wildlife that are struggling to survive human-made hurdles.
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Searching for Succulent Gardens
Adriana Pera, Los Angeles
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Agroecology Commons Weathers a Weird Winter and Political Storms
A year after our first Agroecology Commons visit, the El Sobrante farm has a new greenhouse foundation, thriving farmer training program, and some unexpected wildlife.
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Finding Community at the Bay Area Climate Literacy Exchange
A third of our food supply goes to waste, and Bay Area students are learning how to fix it one school cafeteria at a time.
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At Canticle Farm, Food and Community Are Prayer for a Better World
On a residential street in East Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, a front yard becomes a food distribution network every Friday.
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En Canticle Farm, la comida y la comunidad son las oraciones para un mundo mejor
Canticle Farm está reinventando el concepto de vecindario a través de la tierra compartida, la comida gratuita y la acogida radical.
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En la granja agroecológica Agroecology Commons, las nutrias han vuelto
Un año tras nuestra primera visita a Agroecology Commons, la granja en El Sobrante tiene una nueva base para un invernadero, un próspero programa de entrenamiento para agricultores y una fauna inesperada.
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Verduras de primavera fáciles de cultivar en jardines pequeños
Los chícharos dulces y los nabos japoneses son verduras resistentes al frío, ideales para los jardines del Área de la Bahía. Aquí te explicamos cómo cultivarlos y cocinarlos.
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Entrenar futuros agricultores para que cultiven más que solo alimentos
En un colectivo del Área de la Bahía para agricultores BIPOC y queer, Brooke Porter y Alexa Levy luchan por construir, desde la tierra, un sistema alimentario inclusivo.
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Is Brooklyn Basin Emblematic of Regional Development Vision?
The 64-acre waterfront development adds thousands of new housing units to one of the world’s most expensive places, but questions remain about its future.
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Pleasant Hill Gets Sustainable Street Improvements
An intersection redesign with safer bike lanes earned a national Complete Streets award, while sparking mixed reactions from drivers.
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Six Months on the Community Reporting Beat
The magazine worked with four journalists in training from community colleges, and began building a stronger network in under covered communities.
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What You Need to Know About Artificial Turf
As the World Cup comes to the Bay Area, artificial turf is facing renewed scrutiny. Is it safe for players and the environment?
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Lo que debes saber sobre las canchas de pasto sintético
Mientras el Mundial se acerca al Área de la Bahía, el pasto sintético vuelve a estar bajo la lupa. ¿Es seguro para los jugadores y el medio ambiente?
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Gleaning in the Giving Season
The practice of collecting food left behind in fields after the harvest is good for the environment and gives more people access to produce.
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Growing Better Tomatoes with Less Water
UC Santa Cruz researchers find the highly-desired ‘Early Girl’ variety yields more tomatoes under dry-farmed conditions.
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The Race Against Runoff
San Francisco redesigns drains, parks, permeable pavements and buildings to keep stormwater out of the Bay and build flood resilience.
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Martinez Residents Want More Than Apologies — They Want Protection
After a 2022 release of toxic dust and a February 2025 fire, people in the northeast Bay town are tired of waiting for safety improvements.
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Fall Plantings Build Pollinator Habitats in Concord
Community groups, climate advocates and a church are coming together to plant pollinator gardens as monarchs, bees see population declines.
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Field Clips: What 7 Newly-Minted Climate Leaders Did for Solano County
After 10 months of climate leadership training, the graduates of the Resilient Roots program tell us about their projects.
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Backyard Harvests Reduce Waste
A Cupertino Rotary Club program led by Vidula Aiyer harvests backyard fruit and reduces greenhouse gases.
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Digging in the Dirt Got Me Into Student Climate Action
A public garden at El Cerrito High School in the East Bay inspired my love of nature and my decision to study environmental science at UCLA.
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Reforesting a Fiery, Warming World
To survive climate change, California forests need more than re-planting — they need seedlings matched to tomorrow’s conditions.
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One Man’s Five-Fire Learning Curve
Since Steve Rasmussen and his wife bought a Napa vineyard in 2015 they’ve weathered five fires, and learned how the county and the community respond when disaster strikes.
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Composting as a Ritual for Renewal
A farm high in the Contra Costa County hills helps folks learn from the land and connect with nature.
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Investing in Climate Smart Parkscapes at Coyote Hills
At Coyote Hills Regional Park, a sweeping 170-acre expansion is reshaping the landscape where wetlands, oak savannas, and historic farmlands meet.
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Magical Thinking Takes Eleven Kids on Journey for Justice
In fairy wings and cloaks, Bay Area youth turned the MLK Shoreline into a living game to tackle climate change — a photo essay.
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A Living Shoreline, Built One Oyster at a Time
Can the humble Olympia oyster stabilize shorelines and fight rising seas across the West Coast? With a little help from human engineering, there’s a good chance.
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Ecologist Finds Art in Restoring Levees
In Sacramento, an artist-ecologist brings California’s native species to life – through art, and through fish-friendly levee restoration.
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Slow Progress on Shade For California’s Hottest Desert Towns
Coachella Valley communities face record temperatures with little shade. Policy changes lag as local groups push for heat equity.
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Testing Adaptation Limits: Mariposa Trails, Marin Roads & San Francisco Greenspace
In KneeDeep’s new column, The Practice, we daylight how designers, engineers and planners are helping communities adapt to a changing climate.
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“I Invite Everyone To Be a Scientist”
Plant tissue culture can help endangered species adapt to climate change. Amateur plant biologist Jasmine Neal’s community lab could make this tech more accessible.
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How To Explain Extreme Weather Without the Fear Factor
Fear-based messaging about extreme weather can backfire. Here are some simple metaphors to explain climate change.
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How Two East Bay Teachers Are Fighting the Climate Crisis
Climate literacy and sustainability resolutions are changing how East Bay schools tackle teaching about climate science and solutions.
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Don’t Tidy, Leave Winter Homes for Insects
Your messy garden might be saving beneficial insects. Before you reach for the rake, learn about how dead leaves and stems help pollinators overwinter.
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Lighting a Fire Under K-12 Climate Literacy
In a sixth-grade Petaluma classroom, children are exploring how to make wind energy, fulfilling new state mandates to build climate literacy.
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Wildfire in the Big City?
San Francisco’s 2025 Hazards and Climate Resilience plan says the city’s urban forests pose a moderate wildfire risk. One resident thinks preparedness could be challenging.
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Six “Unrealistic” Ideas for Deep Greening San Francisco
We need bolder visions for San Francisco’s future this election. From car-free downtown zones to sustainable sports complexes, here are six “unrealistic” ideas that challenge the city’s status quo.
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Ashland Trades in Car Lot for Community Zocalo
An unincorporated area of Alameda County identified by local government as in need of more park space got a new, climate resilient gathering spot and “town square” this summer.
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Mumbai’s Microforests Model Cooling for California
Can the Miyawaki tree-planting method reduce urban heat and enhance biodiversity in the Bay Area?
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Uncertainty Requires a Buffet of Resilience Choices
Oakland plans three main resilience hubs. Activists say funding a more decentralized network could be more equitable.
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Marin Makes Clean Sweep of Forest Floors
After witnessing fire disasters in neighboring counties, Marin formed a unique fire prevention authority and taxpayers funded it. Thirty projects and three years later, the county is clearer of undergrowth.
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Summer Tales of Fire & Heat
KneeDeep revisits some of our most thought-provoking stories about how we experience hot weather and fire season, and what local communities and governments are doing to protect us from impacts.
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Growing Resilience with Seed Libraries
Sierra Garcia, San Francisco
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