Recycling robotics founder Rebecca Hu joins me to talk about her career arc and founding story, finding herself in the waste management industry to automate materials sorting, and why so many items fall out of the recycling stream. Find the full show...
This is a long one! But it lays some good groundwork for where this podcast might go. Ex-designer turned farmer Nicole Yeo joins me to talk about urban agriculture, working in tech, capitalism and White Supremacy, Asian American complexes and the Mod...
(11 minute read)Hello friends and farmers,Quick announcement: Tonight was supposed to be the first Chinatown Night Market of the year. However, due to rain and expected lightning risk, it has been postponed.Stay tuned (@ChoyCommons) for the confirmed...
(6 minute read)Hello friends and farmers,I missed sending a newsletter last week 😩 - my first miss so far in this two-month experiment! But, if there's anything I've learned from the decade plus I've spent trying to establish all sorts of habits, it'...
(5 minute read)Hello friends and farmers,This past week, I've been in Sebastopol, California at Green Valley Farm + Mill, which I didn't realize is also a collectively owned intentional community. Think commune, but without the cult-y connotations th...
(13 minute read)Hello friends and farmers,Another Saturday send this week, but keeping the streak alive! I came back to San Francisco this week to finally pack up the last of my things from my old apartment. It’s been over two years since I was last...
(8 minute read)Hello friends and farmers,Here it is, a day later than the usual Friday cadence but still keeping the streak alive with this fourth consecutive weekly newsletter.This one marks the halfway point of my two-month experiment, and I hope y...
30 days, 0 vegetables, 99 pounds of meat, 12 poops, 42.5 hours of deep sleep, $950, and -3.1 pounds of carbon dioxide: An empirical analysis of the carnivore diet, regenerative agriculture, and the potential environmental benefit of meat.
COVID-19 didn’t break our food supply chain, it was corporate greed and consumer demand. Here's how to support a resilient food system and secure our food future.
Some controversial thoughts on the morality of eating meat, and how it compares to the often overlooked morality of eating plants.
From New York City startups to San Francisco tech to rural Georgia farm, this is the start of my journey from urban yuppie to country farmer.