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Lifelong Farm Romance

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By Paul Muller of Full Belly Farm, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop Sunday Mornings start the week in a relatively quiet and reflective time here at the belly. We can sleep in – usually about 7 am or so – start slow, sip rather than gulp a cup of coffee, and maybe engage in [...]

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Summer In May

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Judith Redmond of Full Belly Farm, Courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop Resting in a prominent corner of our farm, under a native black walnut tree, there’s an enormous Allis Chalmers crawler tractor. This is one of those yellow tractors that were built in the ‘40s and 50’s, weighing up to 70 tons, with huge [...]

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Profile: Chaffin Family Orchards

Chaffin Family Orchards

Oroville, CA – Oroville is a gold rush town in Butte County, CA.  Oro means gold in Spanish, and during the Gold Rush prospectors stampeded over the area in a greedy frenzy.  When Del Chaffin came to the area, he was looking for riches of a different kind—a valley where he could grow crops year-round. Del [...]

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