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By Lorrie Baumann Catalina bleats insistently from her pen in the Toluma Farms nursery barn as farmer Tamara Hicks approaches. Slender and long-haired, Hicks has the sun-kissed complexion of a woman who spends much of her time outdoors, and she doesn...

A well-planned garden can provide your family with the freshest, most nutritious produce, plus a more secure, self-reliant lifestyle. Photo By Matthew T. Stallbaumer Planning a garden in advance can help you enjoy local, homegrown food year-round! Estimate...

Join us this season as we explore California’s celebrated wine country: the rustic ingredients, world-class destinations and passionate artisans, chef and producers who bring it to life. Sarah Bennett and Erika Scharfen met while at graduate school...

I have been getting a lot of comments and emails from folks asking why the little ones are away from their mother and bottle feeding. While Yeshiva was here with me, checking on Francis and helping me getting her used to being milked I asked her how...

“Eh… So where does your money come from?” Hands down, this is the question I get the most often…  And if people aren’t asking it, I can tell they are thinking it. First off, let’s clarify a few things: Like I mentioned in my homestead myth-busting...