Check it out! Tina Tamale Ramos, neighborhood businesswoman and leader in OaklandGrown and Novella Carpenter, an Oakland urban farmer and author of the popular book, “Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer” discuss the national movement grow it, make it, sell it yourself movement and the Taste of Artisans festival that brings it all together this weekend.


Interview aired on KPFA Morning Show April 2, 2010.

We love our local businesses – and the character of Oakland they represent. So who better to start our coverage of the people behind our great neighborhood businesses than Tina “Tamale” Ramos – a third generation co-owner and spokesperson of her family’s business, La Borinqueña Mexicatessen. And boy, does she know some history.