I was recently back in Boone, NC where I grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and where my family goes back to the 1600's. I was utterly delighted to discover how lovely it's become....

I do agree that this awful fertilizer smell seems to come around more often than once a year and I'd like to know why it smells so bad myself. It has become worse over the past 10 years, IMO, also....

Contacts:
Hilary Avalon, Water Trough Children’s Alliance, 707.481.8673 , [email protected]
Paul Towers, PAN/CPR, 916-216-1082, [email protected]

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We have some growing wild at Laguna Farm. Go to our website, check out our hours, come when we are open and you can dig up a plant for free.
It will be happy to spread it's roots!

Hopkins has communicated further with me. In part...

From Lynda Hopkins:
I do believe in Right to Farm, because it protects all of us (farms like yours or mine, dairies that might have foul...

The land is the heritage of human beings. It was never intended for privatization. It was once considered sacred. Every part of life was once considered sacred. Our systems have warped the intention...

I want to echo the paragraph below. The Agricultural Commissioner and others contend that orchards demand more pesticides and water than vineyards to be productive. This has not been my experience...

The Right to Farm should not be interpreted as The Right to HARM, which is what the over-grown wine industry here does. It is the main user of the cancer-causing RoundUp and other deadly poisons,...

It's been five years.... 2011 I took my family to Sebastopol in hopes to settle and build a life... we played music at Ace in the Hole, Hopmonk and busked around town. We were young "hippies" living...

We are swimming in a sea of neurotoxins in Sonoma county. Vineyard drift affects all of us, rich and poor alike. That wonderful view of the vineyard you have and the fine wines that you drink come at...

"Shortly after the release of a report showing 14 beers testing positive for glyphosate in Germany, a concerned supporter of Moms Across America approached me at a convention with disturbing news. He...

I've posted on this subject in several local online forums, as well as here on waccobb. As a native Californian woman in my early 60s, with a 30 year+ history of living here in Sonoma County, I'm at...

Many good reasons exist, other than merely earning money, to be a food farmer, though getting paid is an important benefit. Working outside in nature is good for the body and soul. Nature is a...