Harvesting crews are working around the clock in the Valley these days, diesel engines humming and halogen lights burning in the vineyards as well as the headlamps in pot gardens. Apparently the wine grapes are…
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It's no secret what the main agricultural crop of this region is. Wine grapes are the most visible but for the most part only Big Money plants vineyards, whereas any fool peasant can pull off…
The first mornings after the autumn equinox you really feel the shift in season on the west side of Anderson Valley, with the redwood forests shedding cold drafts that undermine whatever heat is in the…
They tell me the north coast is supposed to get foggier and wetter as a side effect of global warming, at least for a while. I don't put too much stock in any weather predictions…
Sunday morning all my boys were at the farm. That crew is growing hungrier by the day. They'd eat a mountain lion if it came within firing range. I fried up potatoes and onions along…
Visiting various homesteads around the Valley, tracking my kids around and what not, I'm seeing baskets of lemon cucumbers, tomatoes, even buckets of fresh eggs. Friends are trading hams, sausage, bacon. In the kitchens my…
For weather fans, this summer the globe over seems to be one to remember. I'm never quite sure, though, reading about monsoon floods in Iowa or Asia whether the catastrophes are that far out of…
The frigid summer trough held steady over this valley as of the weekend, with my neighbors' crops of white corn from Michuacan barely busting out with tassles and silks at a time of August when…