A dried piece of fruit is only as good as the fruit you start with. And with 25 years drying and 45+ years growing experience, we’re pretty proud of ours. The tradition of drying fruit dates all t...
A few weeks back, we planted about 170 plants along an orchard row. These aren’t just any plants. They’ll provide habitat for western Monarch butterflies!
The western Monarch has experienced a pop...
So much of farming is being ready to respond to factors out of our control. From massive weather events to underground gophers chewing on tree roots, a farmer can only live so much in the future wh...
What is the difference between extra virgin olive oil and the other types? It’s not just a fancy name or a marketing ploy. There’s quite a rigorous testing process through the State of California D...
Salty air rolling in from the Pacific adds a certain quality to the grass at Stemple Creek Ranch, which sits just five miles away from the Northern California coast near the town of Tomales. On a r...
Chef Becky loves spending hours flipping through cookbook pages and seeing how she can modify each recipe to work in our Farm Kitchen. “I’m a cookbook junkie!” she says. And goodness knows there’s ...
A perfect side accompaniment for those seasonally inspired home cooks. Colorful, sweet and savory. Allowing the apples & the brussel sprouts to char a little will add to the fantastic flavor.
If you spend any time around the fruit packing shed on the farm, you’ll hear the beeps of the forklift coming around the corners, making sure people know to move out of the way. It’s one of the m...
