YIMBY
With Sonoma Compost’s imminent closure, clamoring for waste in our backyards. Feedlots, otherwise known as Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), are agricultural systems defined not simply by how many animals […]
Jul/Aug 2015
Double the Money
New farm market economics. It may not be fishes and loaves, but the amount of food a CalFresh recipient can purchase at many farmers’ markets has just doubled nicely. Farmers’
World on a Plate
The ‘OAEC Cookbook’ encourages us to eat widely and well. There are perhaps some things that the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) folks can do that you can’t. Live
Yes, There Is Such a Thing
Free lunches for students in Sonoma County. The Redwood Empire Food Bank (REFB) is committed to helping to feed the estimated 82,000 of your neighbors who go hungry each month—even
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Gentleman/Farmer
Jorge Saldana farms to make better food for his tables. There is a right way to cook beans and it’s probably not the way that you do it. “This philosophy
Coming Into Bloom
The slow flower movement takes seed in the North Bay. As the founder of California Sister Floral Design Co., Nichole Skalski knows flowers. Still, it wasn’t until she was struck
True Blue
Indigo crop colors hopes for local soil-to-skin clothing. On a balmy June morning off Westside Road in Healdsburg, I get my first look at the bright green pointy-leafed shrub that’s
Beyond the Hop
Brian Hunt and the thirst for something different. Grain-based beer has been brewed for thousands of years, while hops have been in use only for several centuries. So, for brewer
Letter from the Editor – July/August 2015
A Letter from the Editor. In the two months since we introduced readers to the beneficial work of Sonoma Compost, that story took a shocking downward turn as the efforts of
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Folks You Should Know – Miriam Volat
Miriam Volat, director and designer of Farm School. Miriam Volat is the director and designer of Farm School at the Permaculture Skills Center, which is committed to supporting new farmers
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