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Sonoma abounds with regional parks
209 Views - 1 CommentConsidering how big the state park system is here in California, it’s no wonder that our state parks usually get all the headlines (lately, of course, the news has been about funding, and it’s been bad). Wonderfully, though, we in Sonoma County are blessed with a resource that’s just as beautiful and just as cheap [...]
Kids ‘Dig’ Windsor Farmers Market
107 Views - 1 CommentFor many kids, tagging along with Mom and Dad to the farmers market can be a total drag. At the Windsor Certified Farmers Market, however, there’s a great way for children to experience the twice-weekly shindig in style: The “Kidz Dig It” club. The club started in toward the end of last decade as a [...]
Occidental center teaches eco-consciousness
105 Views - 0 CommentsThe environment almost always takes center stage at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center in Occidental. This modest community center, founded in 1993, has as its purpose to develop “innovative and practical approaches to the pressing environmental and economic crises of our day.” The center accomplishes these goals with regular classes on sustainability, reuse, conservations [...]
Great Family Hiking at Shiloh Ranch Park
188 Views - 0 CommentsThe secret ingredients for great hikes with young kids are relatively easy terrain, the potential for wildlife (“keep your eyes peeled for…a mountain lion!”) and, of course, spectacular views. Hikers can find all of this and more at 850-acre Shiloh Ranch Regional Park in Windsor. The park, situated at the city’s far eastern edge, is [...]
Ahoy! Whales spotted from Sonoma Coast
159 Views - 1 CommentFacebook fans and Twitter followers of Sonoma County and others have reported whale sightings off the Sonoma County coast in the past week—V-shaped spouts a mile or so offshore near Salt Point State Park. While these spectacles are not unheard of during this time of year, they are pretty rare; usually the best shore-based whale-watching [...]
Dry Creek Peach Open for Business
200 Views - 1 CommentIf it’s June, it must be time for those wonderful juicy orbs at Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg’s Dry Creek Valley. The farm, situated at 2179 Yoakim Bridge Rd., is open from noon to 5 p.m. on weekends from June to September. It is the last remaining fruit farm in the Valley and [...]
Foggy River Farm makes it work
153 Views - 1 CommentA great story (by, ahem, a wonderful local writer) in Sunday’s edition of The (Santa Rosa) Press-Democrat highlighted a trend of new farmers in the area: “Agri-curious” twenty- and thirty-somethings who have turned to farming to help improve the way food is grown and to make their respective communities more self-sustaining. One of the farmers [...]
Sonoma starters keep Mondavi green
162 Views - 1 CommentWhile much is made of the supposed rivalry between Napa and Sonoma, the truth is that the region is tied much closer together than appears to outsiders. To wit, we share grapes (plenty of Napa vintners buy Sonoma County grapes for their wines), we share a passion for good food and locally-produced products and we [...]
New spot in Petaluma is ‘seed’ capital
206 Views - 1 CommentThere’s a relatively new spot in downtown Petaluma for visiting green thumbs and eco-conscious residents of Sonoma County to purchase heirloom seeds: the Baker Creek Seed Bank. OK, so the name of the place technically is Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. But because the business is located in the historic Sonoma County National Bank Building at [...]
Burbank history at Gold Ridge
257 Views - 0 CommentsFamous botanist Luther Burbank once remarked that the wine-growing and agricultural area of Sonoma County must be “the chosen spot of all the Earth as far as nature is concerned.” No wonder, then, that in addition to his beautiful home and gardens in downtown Santa Rosa, he also purchased a 15-acre farm near Sebastopol to [...]
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