Previously, in The Mushroom Farmer… to confront food insufficiency in Los Angeles made even worse by COVID-19, the mf expands his newly productive as opposed to merely whimsical garden to the parkway beyond his front yard, between the sidewalk and the curb.

The Mushroom Farmer, Chapter 22
The mf is a birthday balloon flying away and away and away, transforming from lost toy to miracle of flight to speck in sky to nothing. Come back, mf! We need you!

The Mushroom Farmer, Chapter 21
He had a renewed sense of purpose now: to make his sidewalk produce giveaway better than the neighbors’.
GRAPEFRUIT SNOWMAN — Episode 6: ft. used coffee grounds and filter + new chicken run & all-access pass winners

“How I Got to First Base,” The Sun, November 2020
“The Orange Appreciation Award,” The Sun, March 2020
“Gritty All Day Long,” The Sun, November 2019
Lucky, Plucky, Clucky & Kentucky are out and about: experience their first few weeks of literally running circles around me in “House of Straw,” on the warm-hearted City Creatures blog at the upstanding Center for Humans and Nature.