In Northern California north of Interstate 80, the drought of the early 2020s is distant memory. Reservoirs are full and groundwater tables have risen after 3 consecutive wet winters. And with regular storms since late September giving us a big headstart on the coming winter, it very much feels like we have entered a multi-year [MORE ...]

With our last fields of Sweet Corn and Green Beans finished and the crops in your boxes, we now conclude the "Warm and Dry" season on our farm, and officially start the "Cold and Wet" one. Appropriate, then, that wind-driven rain is pounding the windows while I write and our field crew enjoys a well-deserved [MORE ...]

We're wrapping up our planting activities for the year right now, having lost over a week due to wet conditions from the early October storms. Fall Onions went in last Thursday and yesterday, and the last of our Broccoli is getting planted as I write this newsletter. We started planting Garlic last Friday, continued on [MORE ...]

Every winter in the area around our farm, drivers who pull off the asphalt roads -- for whatever reason -- sometimes make the mistake of driving just a little to far off the gravel shoulder onto the native soil beyond it. Once they do, their wheel or wheels sink immediately and begin to spin with [MORE ...]