Every year in late summer and early fall, Sonoma County residents face the same dilemma – what to do with all the apples? There are only so many pies, tarts, cakes and apple kimchi that can be made! And fresh apples, especially the hallowed Gravenstein, only last a few weeks...
Slow Food Russian River's opening day at the Free Community Apple Press at Luther Burbank Gld Ridge Experimental Farm in Sebastopol starting THIS Saturday, August 15th. As far as we know this is the only FREE COMMUNITY APPLE PRESS in the US. Our Community Apple Press is now open and available...
Like several fruits this year, Gravenstein apples are early. The Gravenstein Apple Fair is ten days away and many Gravenstein orchards are already approaching the end of their brief season. There should be plenty of apples for the fair but there’s a celebration coming up this Sunday, too, when the...
Come one, come all. Come press your apples at the Community Apple Press at the Luther Burbank Gold Ridge Experiment Farm in Sebastopol this apple season. Get Juiced At the Sebastopol Community Apple Press. For free! Have a backyard full of apples? Someone else’s backyard full? Or a real deal...
Rebecca Black and Roy Smith, both 44 and native Californians, get to work soon after sunrise. By 7:30 a.m., they’re busy in the cottage they rent on Old Redwood Highway in Cotati, where they live with their two daughters, Siena Smith, 11, and Lillian Black, 12. This morning, Smith skins...