I think I must have heard the question, “White meat or dark meat?” thousands of times. After all, over the years I’ve sat down with family and friends to thousands of Thanksgiving dinners. The question I’ve rarely if ever heard on Thanksgiving Day and that I haven’t really pondered until…

Roy and farm-hand Zeb put up hay by hand this year. This required mowing, raking, and stacking the hay in the fields. Although last year Roy cut all our hay with a hand scythe, this year we advanced to a tractor-powered 1950’s sickle-bar mower. This allows much, much faster cutting…

Hi there Slow Food supporters.   I am not sure whether you have been up to the Sebastopol Community Apple Press to help out yet this season, but after my awesome day there yesterday, I want to really encourage you to do it before the end of the season because this is…

We are continuing the process of downsizing our production in order to accomplish some of our goals, such as building an agritourism vacation rental to generate income, and to build ourselves a place to live so we can stop paying rent.  As part of this plan, we have leased out…