Another 24 Hours: Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds

Craigslist

Is this supposed to make us want him?

• Self-satisfied, chin-stroking urban homesteaders with meticulous gardens and chicken coops are the city's version of suburbanite control freaks who mow their lawns six times a day. You probably have a few for neighbors. Go to Redwood City and get your own olive tree so you can smoke their weak Meyer lemon pickles with your very own extra-virgin olive oil. Invite them over for an innocent-seeming supper, drizzle some bruschetta with that business, and make them feel as low as compost. Trees are $200 each.

• Here's a good prank: Buy 20 quail chicks on Craigslist, break into your friend's apartment very early in the morning while he's still asleep, let them loose, and run. They're in Mendocino County and, at $3 apiece, a pretty pricey practical joke. They do, however, come with the feed thrown in.

• We're loving this one: "I have two white rabbits good pets just dont have time for them anymore." That's from someone in East San Jose, and to entice you, he's posted pictures of the most Satanic-looking bunnies you've seen since Donnie Darko. We don't know if you're supposed to eat them or what, but one thing is for sure: The ad wasn't posted in Pets.

• In Concord, while supplies last, you'll pay $5 for three pounds of vine-ripened pesticide-free tomatoes. We were at the Ferry Building today and Farm Fresh To You had similar varieties (Roma, cherry, beefsteak) for almost three times the price. They were blanketed in flies, too.

• Raw Mountain View honey, amber-yellow and slightly refined, is selling for $4.50 per one-pound cake. The vendor recommends it for snacks, baking, and the brewing of home-made mead.