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On the West Coast, summer tends to linger. Back-to-school sales may cede shelf space to Halloween candy, but even as the days grow shorter, golden afternoons beckon, encouraging weekend picnics and last-chance outdoor dinners. Now is the time to make the most of the autumn fig crop, currently in succulent full swing. Fig trees flourish in California’s dry, temperate Mediterranean
By Seth Wright, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop This 2013 has been an unusually hot and dry spring here in the Capay Valley. The rain, which usually occurs from January until the end March, never really materialized. There have been many beautiful sunny, warm and cloudless days this spring. We valley dwellers have even endured a few
The tear-dropped shape contains “A taste of honey. Tasting much sweeter than wine. I dream of your first kiss and then…” This fruit of desire goes way-way back to the Old Testament and the very beginnings of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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 bought land from
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