Fresh From Our Farmers: Healdsburg Wednesday Market Launches This Afternoon
For years, the Healdsburg Farmers Market has had a second market day, on Tuesday afternoons. Until last year it took place at the town plaza but as Tuesday afternoon summer concerts grew in popularity,...
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Indigo Rose tomatoes and Garden Peach tomatoes: Two of my three favorite heirloom varieties this year. Tomatoes are glorious this year. They arrived earlier than many of us anticipated and they are...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Sebastopol Berry Farm
As days shorten and evenings turn cold, there’s a sense of dismay among those of us who eat seasonally: Summer fruit is over, we sigh. But not to worry, not yet. Gravensteins may be gone and peaches,...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Preston Farms
Lou and Susan Preston have been making wine in Dry Creek Valley since the early 1970s but their gorgeous estate, nestled near the northwest corner of Dry Creek Valley, is much more than a vineyard and...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Strong Arm Farm
Picture this: Baskets full of purple, chocolate, red and golden sweet peppers, tiny yellow onions, pert red shallots, leeks, garlic, chard, tomatoes and purple and white eggplant. There’s a small...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Parsons Homegrown Tomatoes
Parsons Homegrown of Fulton fills a very specific niche, fresh local tomatoes from January through July or August. Kelley Parsons established her operation in 1994 and it is thriving today. This year,...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Healdsburg Market Opens
At 9 a.m. Saturday morning, the legendary cowbell will ring in the first Healdsburg farmers market of 2013. The opening of this market heralds the beginning of the abundant season, when we’re no longer...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Middleton Farm
Nancy Skall of Middleton Farm Nancy Skall of Middleton Farm grows what may be the best asparagus I’ve ever tasted. Stalks range from about the diameter of a chopstick to that of your big thumb and...
View ArticleUpdated: Wild Pacific King Salmon Recipes
June 2013 Update: Fishing has been good for Dave Legro and he’s had outstanding wild Pacific King salmon every weekend. You’ll find it at farmers markets in Santa Rosa (Mark West Springs Rd.,...
View ArticleChange at Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market, This Week Only
Chickens at Pepper Ranch Poultry, which attends both the Sebastopol and Santa Rosa Original farmers markets There will be NO MARKET this Saturday, May 3, at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. For the...
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