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Walker Family Stuck Through Boom and Bust By Pia Hinckle Lee Walker has been farming with his family in their Graton, CA, apple orchard his whole life, except for a tour in the army and a few years playing pro baseball. Lee has kept growing Gravenstein apples through both the thick and the thin-skinned times [...]
Adapted from The New Cook’s Tour of Sonoma (Sasquatch Books), courtesy of Michele Anna Jordan, pantry.blogs.pressdemocrat.com INGREDIENTS 5 large Gravenstein apples, peeled, cored, and diced 2 medium potatoes, peeled and diced 1 shallot, minced 3 to 4 bacon slices, regular or veggie (optional) Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 3/4 teaspoon chipotle pepper 4 [...]
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By Chris Mittelstaedt Change has come slowly but steadily to the foods we’ve eaten over the last 70 years. While there has been no acute onset to clearly demonstrate the difference between the food of today and yesterday, if you take a look at local agriculture, you can see the fingerprint of change in all partsof the [...]
Pastry brush Gravenstein SlowFood Box Gravenstein Apple Tart Adapted from A Cook’s Tour of Sonoma Courtesy Michele Anna Jordan INGREDIENTS 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon + 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut in pieces and chilled 4 tablespoons ice water Juice of 1 lemon 3 to 4 apples, preferably [...]
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Just as plants employ the cycle of photosynthesis and respiration to convert light, air, and water into energy and back again into CO2, so go the cycles of farming seasons. Seed to sprout to fruit to compost to soil to seeds again. Every culture’s agricultural calendar takes into account times of abundance and times for [...]
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