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Is This Frequency Busy?

She’d first seen the flier for the local ham radio club while out on a walk in her new neighborhood. Though whether that hillside could be considered a neighborhood, Sadie wasn’t sure. In her mind, a neighborhood, like where they’d lived before, had sidewalks and cafés and a name. This… May 20, 2025 Local Food

Can We Make Farmland Conservation Work When Farmers Don’t Own The Land?

Twenty years ago Wayne James harvested garlic with a pickaxe. Today, on the exact same plot of land, all that’s required is a light tug and those bulbs slide right out from soft, dark earth.

Can Sonoma County Even the Playing Field of Agricultural Equity?

Small-scale farmers are inherently resourceful. They have to be. Often operating on a shoestring budget, they make the most of what they have: stacking functions, repurposing materials, taking a tool designed for one task and, after a bit of welding and duct tape, jury-rigging it until it can accomplish a… March 1, 2024 Local Food

Is Dry Farming Making a Comeback?

Rewards taste sweeter when you have to work for them. And for thousands of years, deep underground, that’s how vines have brought us grapes.

Will Sonoma County ease restrictions on urban agriculture?

We’ve all seen the painting. It hangs in local galleries and on restaurant walls. You’ll find it on business cards for real estate companies or framed in homes. It’ll even appear when you google “Sonoma County painting.” And while it may come in many colors and styles, crafted by a… March 1, 2022 Agriculture