As gardeners, I know many of you out there occasionally start to wonder if you should start selling your crops and growing into a full-scale farm. It can be a highly rewarding life, but not […]
Category: Meet Your Local Farmer
Farmer Meetups
For the third year in a row, I had the opportunity to travel ten hours north to attend the Oregon Small Farms Conference and the Pacific Northwest Cut Flower Growers Meetup. It’s one of my […]
Sonoma Flower Market – 2.0
I met Nichole Skalski about three years ago through our involvement in a group called the North Bay Flower Collective – which started as a way for local flower farmers and florists to get together […]
Meet Your Garden Club Blogger, Lennie Larkin
An afternoon with our Grab N’ Grow blogger, Lennie Larkin. In this post we decided to turn the interview tables on our blogger Lennie Larkin and ask her all the burning questions we’ve wanted […]
Growing Herbal Medicine in Sonoma County
Growing Herbal Medicine – An Interview with “Flowerpreneur” Hedda Brorstrom. This week on the Garden Club blog we’re sitting down with my good friend, fellow flower farmer, and lifelong herbalism student, Hedda Brorstrom to chat about […]
From Farm to Kitchen to Table with Chef Matt Elias
The Dish Was Better for It: An Interview with Chef Matt Elias Chef Matt Elias is the master in the kitchen out at Saltwater Oyster Depot in Inverness: a town that sits way out on the […]
What Farmers Do in the Winter
People often wonder what farmers do in the winter. Let me tell you, while the cold months are undeniably a lot slower than the dog days of summer or the insane pace of late spring, […]
Meet Your Local Farmer: Interview with Wendy Krupnick
The first time I saw Wendy Krupnick was at an Ecofarm conference three years ago – just after I moved to Sonoma County to manage the farm at Petaluma Bounty. I was chatting with the […]
Meet True Meat: An Interview with Guido Frosini of True Grass Farms
Today on the Garden Club blog, I’m here to introduce you to the answer to your summer grillin’ prayers: an earnest cowboy raising the best pastured meat this side of the Rio Grande. Specifically, we’re […]
Composting to Success: An interview with Caiti Hachmyer of Red H Farm
Here on the Garden Club blog, we love introducing our readers to some great, hard-working local farmers around the North Bay as part of our Meet Your Local Farmer series. This week, in celebration of […]
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