This is a really good cause. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the saddest reflections of the human race and a lot of people aren't even aware of it.

It's really cool to see something like this happening in Sac. Especially since 2020 is closer than people realize. These kinds of projects don't materialize overnight.

Not to mention recent journalism graduates (like myself) who are having trouble starting a career.

I'd say most of the people who attended were 40+, with a lot of them quite a bit older than that. It was raining and the organizers said that often deters people, but they reckoned it only cut attendance by about 100, so either way you're right. Maybe they need to do some kind of extreme ad campaign. Sky-diving + Mahler or something. Get mountain dew to sponsor them, I don't know. Cheers Dane.

Photo credit goes to Jana Hendler of the Sacramento Mountain Lions.

People don't like math I guess.

It's not stated explicitly in the article, but if you do some math, you can figure out Kevin Johnson's waist size. Anyone got it?

So, homeless guy pretends to be city official? What's going on here?

This is a step in the right direction for sure. Go back to England Jamie Oliver! Just kidding, I love that guy and there's enough room for both of them. We need lots of people spreading this message. Eating healthily is something we Americans ought to make part of our cultural values.

This sounds like performance worth attending. I have to admit I was really confused at first- I thought this was the watermelon guy.

Beautiful photos, well done.

The dude abides.

Kathleen, did they discuss any details about future sustainability efforts in Sacramento or possible upcoming projects, or was it mostly broad-stroke politics and economics conversation?

The weather was really nice too. :p The class was from 8-5 each day. I didn't stay for the whole thing but they covered: how and where to find land and what constitutes good land for farming, basic farm business planning, crop planning, irrigation systems, soil fertility (animal management, cover cropping, composting, etc), orcharding, farm tools and machinery, marketing/sales, and plant propagation/greenhouse management. It was a lot of information.

Thanks to John Pastor for the photos at the top of the story.

It's always good to hear that we're not drinking poison.

It's really interesting how one little building has so much history surrounding it.

I hope this gets overturned. Those taco trucks are awesome. I wish one would set up shop in my neighborhood.

For what it's worth, I was involved with the news coverage of MEChA at CSU Chico while I was a student there and found their organization to be very welcoming of me, a white guy. I attended several rallies for various causes MEChA was associated with and while the people who spoke at the rallies were definitely passionate about Latino rights, I never felt unwelcome or uncomfortable. I'm sure some of the people involved had racist or separatist political viewpoints, but the same can be said of any group of people. Racism and separatism weren't the defining characteristics of their chapter, as far as I could tell. I'm not saying this closes the book on the issue, but MEChA has a lot of chapters (more than 400 according to Wikipedia) and I think it's possible that calling MEChA racist is an over-generalization and is an unfair condemnation considering the complexity of the issue.

I'm not really a tattoo guy myself, but this guide looks really thorough. Nice work!