After sailing to the beautiful town of Avalon, I learned from the townsfolk that all their food is shipped to them regularly on a big barge and that most people considered the possibility of growing food locally to be out of the question due to soil, spacing, and political concerns.  Upon further anthropological research, however, I found that there was more to the story than that.  I made a friend named Scott Sturges who grows enough produce to feed himself year-round in a small corner of his backyard even though he gives most of it away.  When I heard this, I realized that my first my first article for The Catalina Islander was about him and we arranged for a garden interview later that week.

Homegrown Veggies, printed in The Catalina Islander, Friday, March 6, 2012

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The following .pdf of the HEALthy food resolution article contains the wrong caption.  In the actual printed paper it reads “Harborpatrolman William Flickinger is doing his part in the ‘homegrown initiative’.”  The editor of The Catalina Islander loves to come up with article titles and photo captions.  “Homegrown initiative,” I like it.

Council Wants to HEAL with Healthy Foods, printed in The Catalina Islander, Friday, March 23, 2012

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The following article was printed in April, but the editor could not find the .pdf of the pages and my sailboat and I have been back in Santa Barbara since then.  Here’s a .doc file of the version I sent to the editor.  I wonder if he kept the title.

Getting Urban Gardening Off the Ground, printed in The Catalina Islander sometime in April