The first mornings after the autumn equinox you really feel the shift in season on the west side of Anderson Valley, with the redwood forests…
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They tell me the north coast is supposed to get foggier and wetter as a side effect of global warming, at least for a while.…
Sunday morning all my boys were at the farm. That crew is growing hungrier by the day. They'd eat a mountain lion if it came…
Visiting various homesteads around the Valley, tracking my kids around and what not, I'm seeing baskets of lemon cucumbers, tomatoes, even buckets of fresh eggs.…
For weather fans, this summer the globe over seems to be one to remember. I'm never quite sure, though, reading about monsoon floods in Iowa…
The frigid summer trough held steady over this valley as of the weekend, with my neighbors' crops of white corn from Michuacan barely busting out…
On Friday the 13th I was supposed to pick up my 13-year old son from the Sacramento airport. He'd been out in Nebraska and Kansas…
July turned out to be one of the coldest of its kind on record — locally, especially in Anderson Valley. The air flow patterns raged…
Last week my four year-old son and I harvested maybe six pounds of roma tomatoes. They came in earlier this year on account of the…