Petaluma Petaluma East Side Farmers’ Market communityfarmersmarkets.com Perfect for lunchtime shopping! 320 N McDowell at Lucchesi Park, Petaluma. Tuesday: Year-round, Rain or Shine, 10am to 1:30pm. Accepts EBT. Market Match. Santa […]
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A new health literacy series brings cooking and exercise classes to a library near you. The rain pours down outside the central branch of the Sonoma County Library in downtown
The weather is warming up, which means it’s time to stick our hands in the soil and get planting. We asked UC Master Gardeners Sue Lovelace and Susan Foley and
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Carneros Brewing Company Driving along Highway 121 in the Sonoma Valley, you may find your head turning as you pass a small hop yard slightly obscured behind a few olive
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Clover Sonoma continues to nurture a century-long partnership with small, family-run dairies. It’s Tuesday afternoon in late January, and a surprisingly strong afternoon sun shines across the rolling hills
Stories from the people who make our food system go. Caiti Hachmyer Farmer/Owner at Red H Farm in South Sebastopol Can you describe Red H Farm for us? Red H
In Memoriam: Iraj Soltani . In the stadium of downtown Santa Rosa, longtime lunch counter Mac’s is a turnstile—a narrow corridor through which passes lawyers, janitors, city councilmembers, restless teenagers, reporters, artists,
A Farmland Mystery. Why is Sonoma County agricultural land so expensive? I’ve almost accepted that asking this question is like asking, “Why do bad things happen to good people?”. But here’s
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
