On Wednesday at noon, the Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market ends its nearly four-decade long run in the east parking lot of the Santa Rosa Veterans Building, located at the corner of Brookwood and Maple Ave., across from the fairgrounds. The Wednesday market opens, as it always has, at [...]
There is still time to snag yourself a seat at Saturday evening's benefit for Worth Our Weight Culinary Apprentice Program. Chef Duskie Estes of Zazu Restaurant will be guiding the apprentices through a special dinner featuring piquillo chiles stuffed with Dungeness crab brandade and served with Meyer lemon [...]
Until this year, the opening of the Sebastopol Farmers Market on the first Sunday in April heralded the start of the season. Now that the market operates year round, spring comes more quietly to west county. On April 1, the Sebastopol market quietly expanded into the town plaza, [...]
On Friday morning, the Sonoma Valley farmers market is filled with customers--shopping, chatting and lingering over nibbles such as hummingbird-shaped cookies and lumpia--as a stream of moms, grandparents and nannies usher babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and pups into the adjacent park. Two vendors, Paul’s Produce and Oak Hill Farm, are located [...]
In January. farmers are reading seed catalogs and planning their spring strategies. Many are farming, as well; we are blessed with year-round farmers markets with plenty of freshly-harvested produce. The Santa Rosa farmers market is our largest and it thrives in the winter. In addition to market regulars, heavy hitters [...]
There’s a wreath on the door of the Green String Farm Store, located at the corner of Adobe Rd. and Frates Rd. in Petaluma, made of beautiful feathers, some of which I recognize as coming from Barred Cochin hens. All the feathers in the wreath are from the happy chickens [...]
On Sunday, the last of the year’s seasonal farmers markets wraps up its 2011 season. The Windsor Farmers Market, which takes place on the east and north sides of the Town Green, opened this year on May Day, with a May Pole celebration. It ends on December 18. [...]
If you move a manmade beehive--technically a super--left or right while bees are out working, they will not be able to find it when they return. I thought of this Sunday, as I walked towards the empty parking lot where the Sebastopol farmers market usually takes place. I [...]
Fall colors and new faces signal the changing of the seasons at the Santa Rosa Original Farmers Market.
The Windsor Certified Farmers Market, which takes place on Sunday mornings from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., continues through December 18.
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