No Leftovers
Harvest Hub bridges the gap between farms and tables By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
Cover Story
No Leftovers
Michael Peterson and his son Nicolas are unloading pillowcase-sized bags of purple Brussels sprouts from their Willow Creek Farm truck. There are boxes of pale green bok choy and sacks of rainbow carrots, too, stacked up outside the entrance to the Harvest Hub run by the North Coast Growers Association (NCGA) on West End Road…
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Petey Brucker: 1952-2024
Peter (Petey) Daniel Brucker passed away peacefully, in the arms of his loved ones. After a decline from the disabling neurological disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, Petey took his last breath as the sun rose on Earth Day, April 22. Born in Nyack, New York, on Oct. 15,1952, the son of Mildred and Daniel Brucker, Petey…
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More than 60 years since its creation, Memphis, Tennessee’s Stax Records is still churning out records by acts that mix gospel, R&B, soul and the blues like nobody’s business. One such hometown hero group is Southern Avenue, a large ensemble that lays it down heavy and danceable. They’ll be at Humbrews tonight at 8 p.m.,…
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, June 19
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At 8 p.m. this evening at the Miniplex, a very interesting and talented experimental instrumental trio will be playing on the screen-backed stage. Guitarist Bill Orcutt, saxophonist and composer Zoh Amba and drummer Chris Corsano are the members. They each contain enough brilliance to be memorialized forever on one of those music recordings we throw…
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No Leftovers and the Juneteenth Festival
On today’s episode of the NCJ Preview, we discuss how Harvest Hub is bridging the gap between farms and tables in this week’s cover story of The Journal. We’ll also discuss Humboldt County’s fifth annual Juneteenth Multicultural Festival, and this year’s new theme, Celebrates a ‘Liberated Future’ of Unity and Diversity. READ FULL STORIES HERE:…
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