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Off topic, but Strauss brand is fairly local and quality is amazing: https://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/ https://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/

gumby 6y ago
There is local produce even closer (e.g. half moon bay and San Jose) but they days of watching wheat harvesting next to Intel HQ, or cherry production next door to Cadence HQ are gone. Where Google is now was bean fields I used to cut through after saving my emacs buffer at work.
- sologoub 6y ago
  Not sure which of the many of their offices you are talking about, but the main Googleplex looks to be on a superfund site from previous semiconductor manufacturers - not an ideal agricultural site. Edit: Link to map: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/toxic-plumes-the-dark-side-of-silicon-valley/1971023/ https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/toxic-plumes-the-dark-... Used to live in HMB, but don’t recall a creamery. Definitely some cool small producers in Pescadero still.
  - gumby 6y ago
    "produce" -- I used it in the conventional US sense of non-grain vegetables and fruit, which HMB is full of. I also don't know of any dairies there specifically; I'm sure there were some once but that would have been before my time! I moved my company into the Landings complex (just off Rengstorff) in the early 90s (SETI was also there!). SGI and then Alza built their HQs on what was a bean field a few years later. Building 42 is where the old SGI complex was; the only remaining SGI building that still looks something like its original form is the Computer History Museum. Yep, a lot of the valley land is contaminated thanks to semiconductor production and military use. (in the case of the wheat field next to Intel -- I remember thinking "I hope I never eat something made with that wheat!" That particular map won't display in my browser but I wouldn't be surprised if Ames/Moffet leachate perfused the area, including where the googolplex is now. I worked at Ames for a while when it was a military base and the disposition of chemicals in those days was pretty scary. Where the OSH is now (previously, and briefly Sun Headquarters) was the FMC plant making the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and their chem waste could have leaked across 101 and contaminated that area as well. When I worked in (the city of) Santa Clara about 10 years ago I worried about the water supply because of all the former semiconductor plants. Luckily the city had a map showing the water system. The residential areas were on Hetch Hetchy water but the industrial areas were on well water. Scary! That was the only time I was willing to pay for bottled water.
    - sologoub 6y ago
      Sorry didn’t catch the produce part correctly - HMB is amazing for that. The barn/farm stand on Kelly Ave (Andreotti Family Farm) is awesome and very fresh. Thanks for sharing the history! Looks like 42 is right on top of the bad site. Guessing much like that Intel wheat. The other problem Bay Area and much of CA have to also deal with is Mercury contamination. Much of that was from the gold rush era. Nasty stuff.

gumby 6y ago

There is local produce even closer (e.g. half moon bay and San Jose) but they days of watching wheat harvesting next to Intel HQ, or cherry production next door to Cadence HQ are gone. Where Google is now was bean fields I used to cut through after saving my emacs buffer at work.

sologoub 6y ago
Not sure which of the many of their offices you are talking about, but the main Googleplex looks to be on a superfund site from previous semiconductor manufacturers - not an ideal agricultural site. Edit: Link to map: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/toxic-plumes-the-dark-side-of-silicon-valley/1971023/ https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/toxic-plumes-the-dark-... Used to live in HMB, but don’t recall a creamery. Definitely some cool small producers in Pescadero still.
- gumby 6y ago
  "produce" -- I used it in the conventional US sense of non-grain vegetables and fruit, which HMB is full of. I also don't know of any dairies there specifically; I'm sure there were some once but that would have been before my time! I moved my company into the Landings complex (just off Rengstorff) in the early 90s (SETI was also there!). SGI and then Alza built their HQs on what was a bean field a few years later. Building 42 is where the old SGI complex was; the only remaining SGI building that still looks something like its original form is the Computer History Museum. Yep, a lot of the valley land is contaminated thanks to semiconductor production and military use. (in the case of the wheat field next to Intel -- I remember thinking "I hope I never eat something made with that wheat!" That particular map won't display in my browser but I wouldn't be surprised if Ames/Moffet leachate perfused the area, including where the googolplex is now. I worked at Ames for a while when it was a military base and the disposition of chemicals in those days was pretty scary. Where the OSH is now (previously, and briefly Sun Headquarters) was the FMC plant making the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and their chem waste could have leaked across 101 and contaminated that area as well. When I worked in (the city of) Santa Clara about 10 years ago I worried about the water supply because of all the former semiconductor plants. Luckily the city had a map showing the water system. The residential areas were on Hetch Hetchy water but the industrial areas were on well water. Scary! That was the only time I was willing to pay for bottled water.
  - sologoub 6y ago
    Sorry didn’t catch the produce part correctly - HMB is amazing for that. The barn/farm stand on Kelly Ave (Andreotti Family Farm) is awesome and very fresh. Thanks for sharing the history! Looks like 42 is right on top of the bad site. Guessing much like that Intel wheat. The other problem Bay Area and much of CA have to also deal with is Mercury contamination. Much of that was from the gold rush era. Nasty stuff.