Zero Waste Live!
In which our reporter takes a love for cheese and chips, adds a toddler, and lives lightly(ish) on the Earth. In 2013, I visited a house that was sparse, white, […]
Reinventing the Nugget
Hip Chick Farms and the quest for ethical frozen foods. It wasn’t until halfway through a call with the Food & Wine magazine editor that Jennifer Johnson and her wife
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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,
Ancient Activism
Local gleaners save the harvest, just as they’ve done for thousands of years. Food waste is a hot topic in 2015. According to a report by the National Resources Defense
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
Slice of Eden
A food forest grows at Chickweed Patch in Petaluma. Suzanne Mackey leads the way through a berry bush-lined path of her backyard, next to a greenhouse made entirely of recycled
Metamorphic Magic
From green bin to black gold at Sonoma Compost. Halfway through a tour of Sonoma Compost, on a hill above the green rolling valleys of Petaluma, I stick my hand
Utile Textile
How hardy, primitive sheep can weed and clothe you. Two years ago, Leslie Adkins and her husband Alden drove their Prius from Massachusetts to California with unexpected hitchhikers in the
Learning to Eat
The school garden movement could end diabetes and does provide Common Core curriculum. So why is it still viewed as a hippie’s daydream? On a sunny Friday morning in the