My Favorite Eats
Exploring Sonoma County cities and towns with food-loving locals Name: Bob Guffanti Profession: Owner of Another Green World, Landscape Consultation and Design Location: Burbank Gardens neighborhood, Santa Rosa RESTAURANTS […]
Op-Ed
Letter From The Editor
Summer’s here! It’s show time for cold drinks, swimming, potlucks and barbecues, lying in the grass reading a good book, camping, quality downtime with friends and family, and lazing around
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Letter from the Editor
On weekday mornings, I walk my daughter to school. It’s our luck that her preschool is just a few blocks away—a sweet jaunt that takes us along a section of
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The End Bit
Legal Cannabis Farming Could Lead to Unique Farmpreneur Mashups. As Sonoma County regulators and policy makers work to figure out where and how to permit cannabis cultivation, a prime opportunity
The End Bit
Sonoma County doesn’t produce much in the way of vegetables. In 2015, roughly 512 acres of vegetable production yielded $12 million. Not much, given that yearly we consume several hundred
The End Bit
Grow More Fruits and Vegetables, Grow the Economy? How much food should we grow in Sonoma County, and why that amount? The question hit me after several years of researching
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Enjoy Life! Eat out more often! By any account, we’ve got it good. If you live in Sonoma County, you eat out. If you come here to visit, well—you probably came
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Sick and Tired
New Farmworker Health Survey offers a dire prognosis for our poorest residents. A survey by the Sonoma County Department of Health Services has found that farmworkers here experience poorer health,
Compost Conundrum
Bill Foss and black soldier fly larvae to the rescue! Talking to Bill Foss, even while he’s driving, means discussing black soldier flies and the protein values of larvae and
Pollinate This
How buying local packs a powerful can of economic whoop-ass. In his new book, The Local Economy Solution, progressive economist Michael Shuman continues his tireless, 20-year effort to wring the