[conspire] OT: Edible Landscaping Tour, Tour de Peninsula

[Tony Godshall]

Outstanding events.

Hope you had fun.

Did you eat any landscape?

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Tomorrow, my clan will be off on an annual event that we always look
> forward to:
>
>   Dear Rick and  Deirdre,
>   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>   Food Grown in our Neighborhoods
>   Edible Landscaping Tour
>
>   Only two days until our Sixth Annual Edible Landscaping Tour. Visit 10
>   local, organic vegetable gardens and get inspiration for your own!
>
>   Saturday, July 21st    11:00 am - 4:00 pm  Inspiring and self-guided.
>
>   * Visit ten beautiful suburban gardens
>   * Meet creative & innovative gardeners
>   * Get great ideas for your garden
>
>   Check-in at Common Ground
>
>   10:45 am - 3:00 pm   Saturday, July 21
>
>   Registration: $35.00
>
> One checks in at Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Education
> Center in Palo Alto, and gets a map to find the featured gardens at
> various people houses in Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto, and Menlo
> Park -- and then you have all morning and afternoon to drive or bicycle
> to them at your leisure and enjoy.  Some of the gardens have been
> spectacular, e.g., Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy's in Mountain
> View, and restauranteur Jesse McCool's in Palo Alto.
>
> http://www.commongroundinpaloalto.org/2012EdibleGardenDescriptions.htm
>
>
> That's TOMORROW MORNING.  If interested, please join us.  (We have room
> for one more in our car.)  No exercise involved, just walking around
> beautiful, lush, showcase food gardens at people's houses.
>
>
>
> Item the Second -- for the more athletic.
>
> Tour de Peninsula bicycle ride
> Sunday, August 5, departing from Coyote Point Park, San Mateo
>
> This is another beloved annual event, set up in gentle mockery of the
> Tour de France.  In the Tour de Peninsula, nobody cares about your
> completion time, and shortcutting is fondly encouraged as 'distance
> conservation'.  Instead of a yellow jersey, there's a Dirty Shirt.
>
> I will be riding one of the courses, but haven't made up my mind which
> one.  They offer 20, 41, 56, and 63 mile options (and a 2-6 mile trail
> ride entirely within Coyote Point Park for families/kids).
>
> http://supportparks.org/tdp/
>
>
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