Mendocino Permaculture’s 35th Annual Winter Abundance Workshop Saturday February 10, 2018 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fairgrounds in Boonville Seed & Scion Exchange Free classes all daySCHEDULE OF EVENTS — Rain or Shine 9:00 – 4:00 Open exchange – Scions, seeds, cuttings, herbs & selection advice.
Word of Mouth Magazine Features articles about local farmers of the land and sea, check out this Sidebar feature article on grafting trees Sidebar: Grafting Trees: Key Terms and Instructions […]
The Not-So-Simple Living Fair, a weekend of hands-on workshops and demonstrations celebrating rural living and homesteading skills July 28th, 29th, and 30th, 2017 at the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville! […]
Congratulations to the 2016 Good Farm Fund Farm Grant Awardees! The Good Farm Fund distributes grants directly to local farms to fund specific projects. The goal of the grants is to help small farms in Mendocino and Lake Counties succeed and increase participation in our community’s food system. […]
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 [...]
