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One of the market’s favorite items for customers to pick up this time of year is walnuts! For baking, side dishes, salads, and appetizers, you can’t find better quality California-grown walnuts than at your farmers’ market. Walnuts are the oldest known food trees we know of. The Romans called them...
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Perfectly proportioned for little hands, these charming pumpkins are just the right size for children. They're small pumpkins at 5 to 6" in diameter, 3.5 to 4" tall, with smooth, deep orange skin and solid, dark green stems. Baby Bear pumpkins were developed by R. Johnston, Jr. and one of its...
It’s been one year since the 2017 North Bay fires; I’m standing in front of a rectangular patch of charred black earth, three miles from the nearest paved road in the Atlas region of Napa County. Various household items are scattered across the ground; a kitchen oven stands perfectly intact, albeit...
It’s time for the seasonal family trip to your local pumpkin patch. Drive east to Brentwood and visit Enos Farm or Smith Family Farm; take a day trip to the famous pumpkin patch at Swank Farm in Hollister and hitch a ride on a hay cart; or pile in the car and head west to Half Moon Bay for the...
We love butternut squash, roasted or stuffed, hot from the oven with sweet yellow flesh and heavenly flavor. But a little upstart in the squash world arrived a couple of years ago and has wowed the farmers' market crowd. Looking like a miniature version of the butternut squash that fits in the palm...