I write to you now from Arusha, a city in northern Tanzania about an 8 hour drive from Morogoro, where I was staying last. The 8 hour drive actually took a whopping 13 hours due to traveling via bus weighed down by no less than 21 people, arms and limbs and backpacks stuffed into cramped… Read More Musings of a mzungu

Hello Internet! Mambo from Tanzania! We’ve had two crash courses in Swahili since our arrival last Tuesday, both of which came after a few days in country floundering among the locals as they yelled “Mzungu!” (which we learned means ‘white person’) among a steady stream of Kiswahili punctured by an “Obama” and “Hello” from time… Read More Thousands of miles away feeling like millions

Before I start on our trip to Salinas Valley on Monday, I’d like to give a quick recap of some of the highlights since my last post. Friday, August 26 We spent the morning at the Oakland farmer’s market. We had a lecture the previous day with Miguel Altieri, a professor of agroecology at University… Read More Watt in Watsonville