Apple Farmers Helping Slow Food Support Apple Farmers

By August 3, 2017 News
Apple Farmers Helping Slow Food Support Apple Farmers

The Russian River Chapter of Slow Food has been supporting the apple farmers of Sonoma County for 15 years. For the past five years, we have hung banners in Sebastopol announcing first the anticipated arrival, and then the actual arrival, of the Gravenstein apple, the apple famous for being the earliest to ripen, and for being delicious whether fresh, baked or sauced.

Apple Farmers Helping Slow Food Support Apple Farmers

Chuy (left) and Javier (right) of Dutton Ranch doing high-altitude work to change the banners on the Boblitt Building on Petaluma Boulevard.

It’s hard work hoisting the 30 foot-long banners onto a building and securing them. This year we requested the support of one of the prominent local apple growers, Dutton Ranch, to provide some agile, youthful workers to supplement our ranks. Their help has made life easier for the volunteer members of Slow Food, assuring that we will be able to hand the banners for years to come.

Apple Farmers Helping Slow Food Support Apple Farmers

Here Russ Franco of Slow Food assists Chuy and Javier make the transition from the “Coming” banner to the “Are Here” banner on the Goodwill store.

We have hung the banners in various locations over the past five years, but for the past two years we have found sites that are highly visible to traffic coming to Sebastopol from the east and the south. The Boblitt Building has made its south-facing wall and Goodwill Industries Redwood Empire has allowed us to hang the banners on their Sebastopol store.

As the sun sets in the west, Javier and Chuy apply the finishing touches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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