When I was in my early thirties, I lived on a monthly disability check from the state: $268. My rent for a small room in…
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The Decater family runs Live Power Community Farm in Covelo, a diversified, solar-powered CSA farm that for 27 years has supplied its 200 member families here in Mendocino County, and the Bay Area, with fresh, high-quality biodynamic/organic food. They plow and till the land with their six draft horses. Besides growing almost fifty varieties of vegetables, they raise sheep, cows, chickens, and pigs.
This year’s Humboldt County Grand Jury Report calls for an end to after-hours releases from the county’s jail facility between 9pm and 6am and finds…
The other morning I answered the phone to the mellowed tones of a retiree named Bill who had somehow got hold of my number. “Hello,…
Each Kindle or electronic e-book owner in France buys an average of 4.6 books a year. In Italy, a country with a reputation of not…
An early August road trip heading east from the city of Ithaca in the middle of New York State to southern Vermont promises calm, pastoral…
I am a 21-year-old semi-adult and, being quite interested in me, I think often of my future. I have climbed to the top of youth…
August should be a month of adventure, entertainment and fun. For the last two, readers can't do much better than the Mendocino Theatre Company's production…
It is a strange condition: a historical phenomenon that is potentially a huge, world-changing revelation for mankind is trivialized and ridiculed by US mainstream culture…
Village Building Convergence (VBC) activists and their supporters from Cittaslow Sebastopol, Transition, the Grange, Permaculture Skills Center, and other groups recently packed the City Council…
I was recently part of a group of Valley folks gathered to discuss issues in the Anderson Valley and to suggest some possible ways forward.…