Summertime seems to bring out the innate grillmaster in everyone and I’m no exception. I’m not a professional chef by any stretch of the word and although I do greatly admire and respect the hard hard life of heat, exertion and sacrifice that all pros must endure, I think that there is something more […]

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Our buds Alex and Justin did a profile of us on www.discoverwinecountry.tv.  The soundtrack will be coming out soon.

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Taking a walk around the garden today, I got the feeling that life is about to get really interesting here at the home ranch. We’ve got a total of 7 raised beds ranging in size from 48 feet square to 96 feet square and there is plenty of gardening to do. With twelve […]

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The austere Gravenstein Apple even looks antique. It demands respect. Slow Food USA deems this heirloom fruit one of the first of its applekind in North America, dating back to 1811 in Sonoma County. Do we love Sonoma County? Yes, we do. Sebastopol is the Gravenstein’s motherland, where I first fell in love with these […]

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