Sep/Oct 2022
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Letter from the Editor
Five years after the Tubbs Fire became the most destructive in California’s history up to that point, Sonoma County residents have become accustomed to the anxieties of fire season. Some people remember being chased out of bed by bullhorns in the dead of night; others, like me, have tamer tales of shock. I was awakened…
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Meet a Local Cartoonist — Brian Fies
Meet a Local Cartoonist — Brian Fies I’ve been a cartoonist my entire life. Through many careers—newspaper reporter, environmental chemist, freelance writer, science writer—my creative passion involved combining words and drawings to tell stories in a way that neither words nor drawings could by themselves: comics. It’s a difficult field to make a living in.…
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Feature Grow Local — “Fighting Fire With Fire”
Two years after their community burned, the people of Monan’s Rill are lighting the way towards a new relationship with fire by Ursa Born In the early morning hours of September 27, 2020, the Glass Fire erupted in a canyon near St. Helena. Conceived in neglected, fuel-laden brush, which had been deprived of indigenous forest…
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Meet a Local Farmer – “Longer Table Farm”
Meet a Local Farmer: Will and Gina, “Longer Table Farm” Will Holloway and Gina Strathman own and run Longer Table Farm, along with sales manager extraordinaire Dylan Stein. In 2014, our farm (then Blue Leg Farms, founded and run by Will himself) was little more than an over-sized garden and a half-baked idea. It is…
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Take a Little Trip: Psychedelic Cannabis Therapy Helps People Unpack and Process Their Stored-up Pasts
In a 1957 meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences, British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond first coined the term psychedelic. Using the Greek words for mind (psyche) and to make visible (delos), he defined it as “mind-manifesting” and wrote in a letter to Aldous Huxley, “To fathom hell or soar angelic/you’ll need a pinch of…
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Eat Local Short — “A Flash of Heat”
A Flash of Heat: Big Spoon Sauce Co. introduces a regional chili crisp that’ll put fire in your belly By Leilani Clark When Lani Chan and Nathan Bender left New York City for California in 2020, they had already perfected the art of building a delicious sauce. It all started after they met at Columbia…
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Eating Local, Cooking Local: Making Fire Cider with Sheila Shupe”
Confessions of a Germophile: Making Fire Cider with Sheila Shupe I’ll admit it, over the first nine months of the pandemic I drank enough booze to inebriate a small blue whale. When the world turned on its ear, my autonomic nervous system kicked in, spewing cortisol and adrenaline through my veins day and night. “Fight!” it…
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The End Bit: Meet Guy Fieri
The End Bit: Meet Guy Fieri Guy Fieri, one of the world’s most recognizable and influential culinary stars, is a chef, restaurateur, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning TV host. In 2019, Guy received a star on the celebrated Hollywood Walk Fame, a rare feat for a chef. Guy began his love affair…