Summer in the City
A serpent-shaped balloon animal, painted four stories tall, coils around a prickly-pear cactus on the facade of an abandoned grain silo. Across the street, beside a clanking railroad crossing, a […]
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Name Games
What Does “Local Food” Really Mean? In 2007, the New Oxford American Dictionary named “locavore” its Word of the Year. Farmers’ markets were proliferating nationwide, tripling in just 15 years. Restaurants began
Eat Local – Finding Unity Through Food
PHOTOS BY PAIGE GREEN “I come from a country where hunger dominated our population,” explains Jules Sinai, who arrived in Sonoma County last year from Haiti, “so, I know the
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Grow Local – Grazing for Good
PHOTOS BY PAIGE GREEN With a knife sheathed in her belt on one side and a bright orange mallet on the other, Paigelynn Trotter traverses a steep hillside with a
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Grow Local – Hardcore
PHOTOS BY PAIGE GREEN It was a bittersweet milestone for Manzana. Just two years after reaching its centennial, the North Bay’s last remaining apple cannery announced they’re relocating to Washington.
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Grow Local – The Future of Farming, Part 2
SEE PART 1 IN VOL. 11 – ISSUE 2 – MAR/APR PHOTOS BY PAIGE GREEN Twenty years ago Wayne James harvested garlic with a pickaxe. Today, on the exact same
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Grow Local – The Future of Farming, Part 1
PHOTOS: PAIGE GREEN Small-scale farmers are inherently resourceful. They have to be. Often operating on a shoestring budget, they make the most of what they have: stacking functions, repurposing materials,
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Cafeteria Dreams
How Sonoma County schools are seeking to replace prepackaged vended food with farm-grown produce. Photos – Paige Green Photography You are what you eat. And for the 30 million children
Grow Local – “Working Hard for the Moisture”
Is Dry Farming Making a Comeback Rewards taste sweeter when you have to work for them. And for thousands of years, deep underground, that’s how vines have brought us grapes.
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Grow Local – “Fertile Prospects”
Will Sonoma County ease restrictions on urban agriculture? We’ve all seen the painting. It hangs in local galleries and on restaurant walls. You’ll find it on business cards for
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