Heather Irwin
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Fire Arts
Wood-fired pizza ovens are for so much more than just pizza. Each day at 4pm, Jim and Michele Wimborough light up their dual wood-fired ovens at Hazel Restaurant in Occidental. Cords of hard wood are fed into the domed brick ovens that look like something straight out of a Neopolitan pizzeria. By dinner service an…
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Moment to Moment
Seasonal goes micro at Single Thread Farms. For everything there is a season. But for Sonoma County farmer Katina Connaughton, there are 72 to consider instead of just four. Rather than painting broad strokes across her agricultural yearbook—spring, summer, winter, fall—Connaughton and her husband are bringing a set of ancient Japanese farming techniques to Sonoma…