This is the twelvth in our series "Connecting With Local Food." Tom Brewer and Pam Armstrong’s Chestnut Ridge Ranch By Pam Armstrong In 1976 we started our long search for the perfect place to live in the country. Tom had spent a very wonderful year on his grandfather’s peach farm in the Ozarks when he [...]
This is the eleventh in our series "Connecting With Local Food." Goodness Grows with Sarah Larkin By Terry Ryder Sarah Larkin is the brand new owner (two months so far) of a small local nursery called “Goodness Grows” at 11201 Anderson Valley Way in Boonville that was previously owned by Greg and Wendy Ludwig and [...]
This is the tenth in our series "Connecting With Local Food." Zeni Ranch By Robert Zeni with influence from Jane Zeni When asked to do this story, I was hesitant as to where to start. So let us start at the beginning. The year was 1894, when Eduino Zeni was granted 120 acres on Fishrock [...]
This is the ninth in our series "Connecting With Local Food." Diaspora Seeds By Andy Balestracci A long lost envelope of tomato seeds received from relatives in Italy haunts me to this day. My memory of it was of two varieties of saved local tomato varieties neatly folded and labeled from the home garden of [...]
This is the eighth in our series "Connecting With Local Food." Lauren's Favors Local Flavors by Terry Ryder One afternoon when I was eating lunch with Barbara Goodell at Lauren’s Restaurant I overheard Barbara and Lauren discussing a story that was to be written about Lauren’s Restaurant with an emphasis on local food. Lauren who [...]
This is the seventh in our series "Connecting With Local Food." I Was Born At a Very Early Age By Mike Brock I guess you could say the idea of Brock Farms started at an early age. I was hooked at twelve by the magic that you can plant this little seed and you get [...]
This is the sixth in our series "Connecting With Local Food." How Good It Is, Lemons' Market By David Ballantine Lemons’ Market, nestled in the small burg of Philo just five miles north of Boonville, has been a mainstay in Anderson Valley for 40 years now. Elmer and June Lemons, along with their son Tom [...]
This is the fifth in our series "Connecting With Local Food." Blue Meadow Farm by Pam Laird Blue Meadow Farm gets its name from the blue-eyed grass that cast a lovely blue sheen over the meadow which became our farm field. Sunflowers and zinnias grow there now, among an acre of organic vegetables, most of [...]
This is the third in our series entitled "Connecting with Local Food." Boonville Farmers' Market by Barbara Goodell "Reclaiming our food means reclaiming community, engaging its economic interconnectivity of specialization and divisions of labor, but at a human scale, promoting awareness of resources and local exchange." --Sandor Katz The Art of Fermentation Kate Castagnola distinctly [...]
This is the second in our series entitled "Connecting with Local Food." Petit Teton by Nikki Ausschnitt "I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anyone could ever want to own." Andy Warhol There was no plan, well, no real plan, when we bought land in the Anderson Valley. [...]