FloraLuna Apothecary & Trading Co. During the summer of 2015, Phaedra Achor was researching forgotten cocktails to serve at an outdoor party she was planning in a couple of months. […]
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Hinterland Empire by Ursa Born Hinterland Empire and its sibling art gallery Neon Raspberry have long been a hub for their distinctively unapologetic progressive, feminist, queer-centric, radical economic and social
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James Knight on the possibilities and pitfalls of vineyard-hopping. Back in 2019, I planned an ambitious hiking trip that I’ll call “The Great Wine Country Trek that Sort of Was,
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Café Frida Gallery Gathers the Town In the early 1930s, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera spent a night in a little house on Sebastopol Avenue in what is now the tiny
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Steve Doty’s Mobile Coolship Turns Rogue Yeast Into Sour Beer On a blue-skied and breezy afternoon in the Shady Oak beer garden, a comfortable outdoor patio alongside the Santa Rosa
Camp Rose Cellars Way too much wine talk is negative talk. Or haven’t you heard a wine praised for what it’s not? The phrase, “This isn’t one of those oaky,
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Tea and Trumpets On a recent sunny Saturday, I visit Mark Bowden, owner and creator of Tea and Trumpets Tea Company, at the Santa Rosa Community Farmers’ Market location on
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Bean Bonanza In 1991, a coffeehouse barista and an English instructor fell in love sitting at a small, round, marble table nestled inside the Wolf Coffee shop just off Mendocino
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Drinking your hoard of booze in lock-down got old fast? Maybe it’s time to start a new, more rewarding hobby. Here in Sonoma County, it’s grape harvest season, the ideal
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How local farms adapt and persevere during tough times Nestled in a valley where vineyards and redwoods give way to green rolling hills is the tiny town of Freestone. While
