When Life Gives You Olives…

My summer farmer’s market schedule has just begun winding down. Wednesday night was the last Petaluma market and I can’t believe it’s over already! Seemed like we had just gotten started, and bingo!, that was it!!! I am happy to inform my loyal and wonderful customers, (new and old), that Haus Fortuna, on 2nd Street, [...]

This is the end of a chapter in Sylverleaf history! Gene will be filling the last several cases of our bottles with the corks this week! We have been forced to switch our beloved cork bottles to a screw top style bottle, because they are no longer making the bottles we’ve used all theses years!!! [...]

Waking up to a very smoky morning, again. The fire up in Dobbins has grown to over 3,200 acres and won’t be fully contained for days. Here’s to all the firefighter’s hard work and to their safety. Being a Fire Chief’s daughter, I have ultimate respect for the job. But being a firefighter in Cape [...]

I keep meaning to mention how fun it is to eat grapes, peaches and apples while doing such mundane chores, such as picking up horse poops, moving sprinklers and especially when mowing the lawn. What a delight it is to be able to pick from a tree or vine in the yard and snack while [...]