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Founded more than four decades ago, the annual EcoFarm conference has served as a meeting place for generations of organic farmers and enthusi…
Katie Rodriguez here, Rubik’s Cubing the agricultural puzzle that is: what it takes to balance spreadsheets and grow crops in increasingly unp…
If Bill Brosseau left any doubt that his wine is merely soil and farming practices brought to the glass, a glance around his new wine studio w…
Katie Rodriguez here, sensing a major sea change in how people are thinking about our food systems.
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IN 1984, MYRA AND DREW GOODMAN STARTED WITH A 2.5-ACRE RASPBERRY FARM IN CARMEL VALLEY. Their priority was simple: No chemicals, no toxic inpu…
Katie Rodriguez here, thinking about a conversation I had with Kelly Damewood, CEO of the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) at the e…
Each year for 43 years, the Soquel-based nonprofit Ecological Farming Association has hosted the EcoFarm conference. It’s become the largest o…
The Salinas Valley is famous for its massive farm fields, the symmetrical rows of lettuce and berries and artichokes that make colorful geomet…
“What suburbia cries for are the means for people to gather easily, inexpensively, regularly, and pleasurably – a ‘place on the corner,’” wrot…