Blog posts and other snippets relating to our CSA community.
Dear CSA Members, Christophe and I drove to Stockton last Monday to a Honda distribution warehouse, which distributes motor parts etc. to dealers all over northern California. We went there to see their new cardboard shredder. We’re looking for just…
The Man Born To Farming by Wendell Berry The Grower of Trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly,…
Last week we were treated to a lecture by Greg Young, our agronomist, and Christophe Kreis, our compost specialist, on approaches to stewarding soil health and disease resistance in the Orchard. There was a lot to absorb. My chemistry is…
Shelly McMahon, our egg supplier, has been farming in some form or fashion for nearly 25 years. Her own parents were not involved in agriculture, but she thinks it’s in her blood. Her grandparents had a dairy farm in Wisconsin…
Becky Talks Conserves A lot of people ask me why we use “conserve” to describe our jams instead of just “jam” or “preserve”. There are a lot of misnomers around what a jam or preserve is. There is what we…
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