You know you have arrived when you are on CropMobster TV interviewed by celebrity gleaner and all-round no-food-waste hero Nicky Bobby!! CropMobster TV’s Nicky Bobby visited the Sebastopol Community Apple Press a few days ago and filed this interview with Sue Deevy. Sue is a Slow Food Leader at the Apple Core, the…
I think I must have heard the question, “White meat or dark meat?” thousands of times. After all, over the years I’ve sat down with family and friends to thousands of Thanksgiving dinners. The question I’ve rarely if ever heard on Thanksgiving Day and that I haven’t really pondered until…
Roy and farm-hand Zeb put up hay by hand this year. This required mowing, raking, and stacking the hay in the fields. Although last year Roy cut all our hay with a hand scythe, this year we advanced to a tractor-powered 1950’s sickle-bar mower. This allows much, much faster cutting…
Hi there Slow Food supporters. I am not sure whether you have been up to the Sebastopol Community Apple Press to help out yet this season, but after my awesome day there yesterday, I want to really encourage you to do it before the end of the season because this is…
We are continuing the process of downsizing our production in order to accomplish some of our goals, such as building an agritourism vacation rental to generate income, and to build ourselves a place to live so we can stop paying rent. As part of this plan, we have leased out…
The booth of the Apple Core of Slow Food Russian River at the Gravenstein Apple Fair on August 8 and 9, 2015 was a great success. On Saturday we pressed 1200 pounds of Gravenstein apples and gave away 3200 servings of apple cider. And on Sunday we pressed 1000 pounds of apples and gave away 2500…
It starts, where nearly all good things start, on the farm with veggies, hops, grains and more. Then comes the next stage, whether it’s farm to table, farm to fridge, or farm to city. Then there’s farm to fermentation that features everything from familiar pickles and ubiquitous sauerkraut to uncommon…