Before I began working on this issue of Made Local Magazine, I didn’t know much about grasslands. After talking extensively with local grass farmers—that’s what farmer and writer Joel Salatin […]
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Farm to Preschool benefits kids and farmers. In early September of this year, the students at Gold Ridge Preschool in Rohnert Park studied apples with their teacher, Andrea Pfeifer. They began at
Regenerative managed grazing by local grass farmers might be one part of the solution to our climate change woes . Since she moved to California in 2013, Ariel Greenwood has
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Reishi Roast brings a coffee-like mushroom brew to a French press near you. A decade ago, herbalists Amy Charnay and Lily Mazzarella did an odd thing, at least to coffee
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Crooked Goat Brewing From Taylor Maid coffee to backyard honey, you can taste Sonoma County in Crooked Goat Brewing is something-for-everyone menu. “Local sourcing is our focus, as much as
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Stories from people who make our food system go. Gervacio Peña López | Landscaper, laborer, and board president of the Graton Day Labor Center Interview by Brooke Anderson of Climate Workers and Davin
Farming for Health empowers women in Roseland to cultivate plant medicine. Guadalupe Vasquez used to go to the doctor’s office three times a month. Vasquez, 35, battles diabetes as well
Meet the Specialty and Small Batch Roasters that Keep Us Caffeinated I’ve long said that coffee is the last vice they’ll tear out of my cold, dead hands. I’ve tried
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Cloverdale Cloverdale Community Farmers’ Market Good eats and good farmers. Rain or shine. Tuesdays through Dec. 20, 3pm to 6pm. 225 N. Cloverdale Blvd., in the empty lot next
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Foraged Flora The interior of SHED, the cafe, restaurant and marketplace in Healdsburg, plays a starring role in Foraged Flora, a stunning new celebration of wild plants and flowers by
