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Dirty Girl Farms sells the tastiest strawberries at the Santa Cruz farmers markets (both the Wed. and the Sat. one). I found out today why that is: the are Seascape strawberries, apparently a slightly different species than the strawberries usually found in the grocery store and grown as the strawberry monoculture that dominates parts of California. Seascape strawberries are smaller and they are both tarter and sweeter. So delicious! I recommend seeking them out.

I also got the first heirloom tomato of the season. It is golden yellow, nobbly, and hopefully the taste of it will remind me why I've avoided most of the ordinary tomatoes available ion the off season.

Hurray for early summer when eating seasonally!

more fires

Bonny Doon is burning, I see the smoke and heard the firetrucks roll by my apartment this afternoon.

UCSC is not burning, nor is it threatened.

This is the 2nd fire in my vicinity in a month, and it is only early June. God help us in late summer and early fall when the REAL fire season starts.

Global climate change anyone?