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Grow Gift Guide – Treats from the Earth
by Mina Rios Since its inception in 2016, the Garden Society founder Erin Gore has been on a mission to break cannabis stigma barriers, create premium cannabis products, and educate people about its many benefits. Living up to its full potential, the Garden Society now prevails as a trusted brand of sustainably sourced cannabis from…
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Cafeteria Dreams
How Sonoma County schools are seeking to replace prepackaged vended food with farm-grown produce. Photos – Paige Green Photography You are what you eat. And for the 30 million children in the US who rely on a school lunch program, that’s even more true. What these growing kids eat not only impacts their health but…
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Orange You Glad It’s Fall?
Autumn in Sonoma County is positively gourd-geous, and with more pumpkin patches than you can shake a broomstick at, there are plenty of opportunities to carve out some fall family fun. From mom-and-pop u-picks to activity-packed haunts with carnival vibes, there’s something here for every-boo-dy to enjoy this season. I really love fall. Maybe it’s…
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Confessions of a Germophile
I’ll tell it to you straight. The majority of food in my adolescence came from a plastic bag, cardboard box or drive-thru window. My health-conscious, home-ec teacher mother was pretty tuckered out raising her fourth and fifth child as a single mom, and like many of us these days, convenience became her priority in the…
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Meet A Local Farmer
Hello! We’re Nick and Spencer, and we started Solarpunk Farms almost three years ago. We come from non-farming backgrounds—Spencer from biology and climate science and Nick from sustainable business strategy—but are now permaculturists-in-training. Our two-acre farm is two parts food forest (we have about 70 trees planted so far) and one part organic vegetable and…
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Grow Feature: Genes Gone Wild
Genes Gone Wild: Sonoma Botanical Garden cultivates and conserves rare, endangered plant species Winter is like sitting in a dimly lit theater amid quiet murmurs expectantly waiting for the show to start, whereas spring is the rapture of a big song-and-dance number at the height of drama. Spring, then, is easy to love, its radiant…
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Keeping Land Legacies Alive with Ag + Open Space
Whenever I visit Humboldt County, I like to take a meandering detour along the Avenue of the Giants to visit my favorite redwood tourist tree. Dubbed the “Immortal Tree,” its accompanying informational sign touts some astonishing stats about this marvel of nature, including its age (950-1000 years!), its height (once 298 feet, now 248 feet…
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From The Ground Up
The Neighborhood Garden Initiative teams up with Bulb Bliss to promote veggies for all in Sonoma County and beyond. When Ammon Jordan set out to write a children’s book about sustainability and green living a few years ago, he had no idea that the project would, well, balloon into something more. But somewhere along the…
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Feature Grow Local — “Nothing Basic About It”
Sonoma County Launches a Guaranteed Income Program to Help Local Families Gain a Sense of Security and Financial Well-Being by Leilani Clark In late summer, a consortium of cities and community organizations in Sonoma County made a big announcement. Following in the footsteps of Stockton and Los Angeles, Sonoma County would be launching Pathway to…
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Meet a Local Farmer – “Winter Sister Farm”
Winter Sister Farm is owned and run by sisters Anna and Sarah Dozor, with the invaluable help of sole employee Kate Beilharz. Focused on feeding people during the typical off-season for many other farms, they distribute food from December through May. Winter Sister grows storage crops like potatoes and onions, as well as cool-weather crops…