Jessica Zimmer
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Try, Try Again
Anti-GMO ban poised to come again before Sonoma County voters. On Nov. 8, voters will decide whether to ban raising and growing genetically modified crops in Sonoma County through the Sonoma County Transgenic Contamination Prevention Ordinance sponsored by GMO Free Sonoma County, a campaign of the political action group Citizens for Healthy Farms and Families…
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Common Ground
Can ‘open space’ mean an incubator farm and room for California tiger salamanders? L-shaped, flat, and nearly treeless, the Young-Armos property doesn’t look like much at first glance. But this 45-acre rural parcel north of Rohnert Park could determine the future of farming in Sonoma County. Whether the parcel becomes an incubator farm or remains…
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On the Rhyze
With inspiration from the past, hop growing returns to Sonoma County. On a cold January night, 10 members of the newly formed NorCal Hops Growers Alliance met around a wooden table at Fogbelt Brewing Company. They had come from Sebastopol, Healdsburg, Cloverdale, and Sonoma to discuss how best to re-introduce a crop last intensively farmed in Sonoma County…