LA Times' food section celebrates Altadena's urban homesteads today.  (Note: URBAN HOMESTEAD! URBAN HOMESTEAD!  You either get it or you don't!)  A great article, featuring lots of names that frequently appear on this website.  And in the picture, it's hard to tell who's cuter — Gloria and Steve, or the goats!

ADDENDUM: we went to the Altadena Ale & Wine House last night to pick up some camera equipment we left behind (OK, and to have a beer)  and ran into Michele Zack, Gloria Putnam, and Steve Rudicel (fresh from their appearance on the Arroyo Channel earlier that night).  They tell us that all the interviews with the author of the Times piece were by phone — rather unusual for an article about the wonders of a place!  Usually you have to at least VISIT the place …