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Order Your Easter Lamb Now
If you want to serve lamb on Easter and want it to be the best quality you can find, you should place an order sooner rather than later. Whenever I visit my daughter Nicolle, who lives in Mississippi,...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Healdsburg Market Opens
At 9 a.m. Saturday morning, the legendary cowbell will ring in the first Healdsburg farmers market of 2013. The opening of this market heralds the beginning of the abundant season, when we’re no longer...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Sam Kim’s Mushrooms
Maitake mushrooms are also known as hedgehog mushrooms. Whatever you call them, they are among the most delicious of all fungi species. Sam Kim of Bohemian Well Being Farm is a familiar face to farmers...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Middleton Farm
Nancy Skall of Middleton Farm Nancy Skall of Middleton Farm grows what may be the best asparagus I’ve ever tasted. Stalks range from about the diameter of a chopstick to that of your big thumb and...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Farm Sinclair
“I want to recreate the experience of having a home garden for customers who don’t have one,” Lee Higbeeof the new Farm Sinclair says. Such freshness, he believes, is what makes customers choose a...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Let’s Go Farm
Joey Smith of Let's Go Farm examines some of his bees, which he keeps for both pollination and education. Photo credit: Emma Belle Kravet A conversation with Joey Smith, founder of Let’s Go Farm in...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Tusque Farms
Got bacon? It’s time for a BLT. The new Tusque Farms may be the first out of the gate with local tomatoes. They have just harvested their first Early Girls. The farm, located on five acres of The Kick...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Occidental Bohemian Farmers Market Opens for 2013
Update: The Occidental Bohemian Farmers Market opened last Friday night and continues through the last Friday of October. It was an enormously successful opening. On Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., the...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Roots of Creation Farm
“We all know how to do this,” Brad Thompson of Roots of Creation Farm in Sebastopol says about growing food crops. “It is in our DNA.” Educating people about this, especially people his age–he’s 27–is...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: West End Farmers Market Opens
The new West End Farmers Market takes place adjacent to DeTurk Park and Round Barn Opening day at the West End Farmers Market offered an idyllic scene, as if I had just stumbled into an urban utopian...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Devoto Gardens
It is mid-summer and apple season is upon is. Within a day or two, several apple farmers will begin picking the first apple to ripen, our beloved Gravenstein. Stan DeVoto, who has farmed apples on...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Thursday Morning Market at Coddingtown
Last Thursday, the final seasonal farmers market of 2013 opened; the season is now in full swing, with 27 market days each week. The WIC Farmers Market takes place on Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Healdsburg Wednesday Afternoon Market
The Wednesday afternoon Healdsburg farmers market, which takes place from 3:30 to 6 p.m., is just what we need mid-week, when the bounty from weekend markets is running low. It’s a focused, no-nonsense...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Sebastopol Evening Market Launches
After years of dreaming and months of planning, the Sebastopol Certified Farmers Market is launching a second day, a Thursday evening market in the town plaza. The new market will operate from 5 to...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Canvas Ranch
As I surveyed the selections at the Canvas Ranch stall at the Santa Rosa Original farmers market last Saturday, I had to suppress a dance of joy when I saw little sacks of farro, an ancient grain...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market
As the Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market settles into its second harvest season in its new location at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, it has hit its stride as the country’s central...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Apples & Pears from Occidental’s Bella Ridge
The Arkansas Black apple, a late ripener, is one of forty varieties currently grown at Bella Ridge Farm in Occidental A bit south of the pretty little town of Occidental, in the forested hills that are...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Sebastopol’s New Family Farm
New Family Farm is one of Sonoma County’s few horse-powered agricultural endeavors. Farming partners Adam Davidoff and Ryan Power use five working-breed horses to prepare their fields sometime in May,...
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Fresh From Our Farmers: Soda Rock Farm
On Sunday, eyes gazed upwards as a light drizzle blanketed the North Bay. Dan Magnuson and his beautiful tomatoes “What about tomatoes?” we all wondered. Would the season end early this year, before...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Redwood Empire Farmers Market
One of our newer markets, the Redwood Empire Farmers Market in central Santa Rosa, features both long-time vendors familiar to us all and some new kids on the block, like Ludwig Farm, located on Ludwig...
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