Fresh From Our Farmers: Healdsburg on Saturday
It’s impossible to miss the fingerprints of fall and nowhere are they more visible than at our farmers market, where their imprint is superimposed on summer’s fading impressions. It is a time of year...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Petaluma in October
If nature doesn’t take your breath away regularly, you may not be paying close enough attention. Every time I go to a farmers market–usually several times a week–I am dazzled and never more so than...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Sebastopol in October
October is, arguably, the most beautiful time in the northern hemisphere. This is certainly the case at the Sebastopol farmers market, where golden light streams down onto a kaleidoscope of yellow,...
View ArticleShare your favorite way to preserve tomatoes
In today’s Seasonal Pantry, which you can read here, I talk about two methods of preserving tomatoes, freezing oven-roasted tomatoes and canning. Do you have a method you prefer, one you’ve been using...
View ArticleShare Your Favorite Summer Dishes Here
In today’s Seasonal Pantry, which you can read here, I ask for your favorite ways to enjoy summer’s bounty. What do you do with Gravenstein apples, other than eat them? The first Gravenstein apples I...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Petaluma’s Greenstring Farm Stand
The Frates Rd. entrance to Green String Farms is lined with olive trees and rose bushes planted in wine barrels. The Adobe Rd. entrance takes you through fields of crops punctuated by trees, marigolds...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market
As the Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market settles into its second harvest season in its new location at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, it has hit its stride as the country’s central...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Singing Frogs Farm
Paul Kaiser coaxes a remarkable abundance from the two and a half acres he currently has in production at his Singing Frogs Farm in west Sebastopol, not far from Ragle Ranch Park. He operates a year...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: The Patch Is Back!
The Patch is back! And how perfect that the Sonoma farm’s reappearance coincided with the solstice and the first day of summer. The Patch has two large fig trees, already bearing beautiful fruit. It’s...
View ArticleEggs, Brams, Shakshuka
A few weeks ago, Seasonal Pantry focused on shakshuka, a dish popular throughout the Middle East in which eggs are poached in a spicy tomato sauce, often in a clay pot known as a bram. You can read...
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