C'mon Home to Eat is a month long celebration of our bounty of local food in Anderson Valley and the wider Mendocino County. As the garden slows down and the farmers pick the last of their crops, it's a perfect time of year to challenge yourself to eat as locally as possible throughout the month [...]
The Not-So-Simple Living Fair, a weekend of hands-on workshops and demonstrations celebrating rural living and homesteading skills, July 29th, 30th, and 31st, 2016 at the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville! Beekeeping, Farming and Gardening, Fermentation and Dairy Culturing, Food Storage and Preservation, Hunting and Gathering, Blacksmithing, Seedsaving, Composting, Natural Building, Animal Husbandry, Wild Foods and [...]
by Alex Nielson, Article originally posted in the Anderson Valley Advertiser March 30, 2016 A typical morning for a produce manager at a grocery store may begin like this: coffee, inventory check, phone call, place an order with a large distributor, done. It takes only moments to order a truckload of produce sourced from afar [...]
This is the fourth in our series "Connecting With Local Food." Boonville General Store By Julie Liebenbaum About fifteen years ago, when I was living in Philo, working as a pastry chef in Mendocino and baking pastry to sell at a few county farmers’ markets, I started thinking about what I wanted to be [...]
Tim Ward here, and despite the rumors I keep hearing, I have not moved to Willits or stopped farming! I am still managing farm production on Burt Cohen's farm on Lambert Lane, as well as the Lazy D next door, and partnering with Ron Rice in the management of the Yorkville Olive Ranch, where we [...]
The AV Foodshed Bookshelf is still at the AV Library at the County Fairgrounds in Boonville. You can check out books and DVDs on rural living skills. This is on the honor system, not through the library checkout system. (We are missing a DVD - The Dirt on Farmer John. Does anyone have it?) To [...]
Acorn Ranch has just a couple more lambs available for custom cut and wrap. Raised on Yorkville range land - finished through the summer on organic alfalfa grown at our sister farm in Healdsburg. Hanging around 40-50# they are $6/#, buyer pays cut & wrap (we'll deliver to butcher) or pick up whole and do [...]
From Sarah Bodner: I would love it if you could pass along news about a very cool opportunity for people to invest locally and support the launch of the Mendocino Wool & Fiber Mill! Matt Gilbert, who shears sheep at the fair every year, and his wife Sarah are hoping to open a wool & [...]
The AV Foodshed Steering Committee meets the first Thursday of each month. The meeting this month will be at 4 pm at Lauren’s. All are welcome to join in with ideas, either by coming to a meeting, sending us an email at avfoodshed@gmail.com or calling Cindy at 895-2949. We have a variety of on-going projects [...]
Here are some of our other AV local food sources. Please let us know if there are any others that are missing (we’ve been adding one or two each month.) Acorn Ranch, 2 miles east of Yorkville, sells heritage pork direct, custom cut and wrapped, by the half or whole pig. AV Community Farm, on [...]
