Francesca Preston
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Hands On: Slowing Down with the Hearth Folk School
Nick LaHaise, co-founder of Hearth Folk School, holds a bright orange Hachiya persimmon in front of him. There’s a kitchen paring knife in his other hand and a vegetable peeler on the table. Lengths of twine rest in a bundle, and a long wooden rod is poised over two milk crates, waiting for us. These…
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Ode to the Local Walnut
I am by nature a forager. No matter that I come from several generations of farmers and ranchers. Give me a tangle of inky blackberries, a patch of ephemeral miner’s lettuce, and I begin to know the land. This autumn, I found myself falling for the Sonoma County walnut. As a child in Healdsburg’s Dry…