(UPDATE: Above, a photo by NCJ’s Bb Doran from the protest today — more an info-swap sesh.) Neighbors of Cypress Grove Chevre, on 1330 Q Street in Arcata, say they’ll be descending upon the world-famous goat-cheese operation this afternoon at 3, pitchforks loaded. OK, they didn’t say anything about pitchforks. But they’re mad. Or confused. […]
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Illegal Diversions
A California Department of Fish and Game program permitting ranchers to divert water from two major tributaries to the Klamath River has been deemed illegal by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith, reports Klamath Riverkeeper in a news release this afternoon. For years, diversions from the Scott and Shasta rivers were unregulated and, says […]
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Local Company Teams With Lowe’s to Give Away 1 Million Trees
Great. First we start shipping whole logs to China; now we’re exporting entire trees. Actually, we doubt too many people will object to the massive tree giveaway being organized by Lowe’s Home Improvement Centers across the country, featuring live seedlings that even now are being sorted, packaged and shipped from the relatively tiny Jonsteen Company in […]
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Joel Salatin at Redwood Acres
We featured an interview with farming guru Joel Salatin in last week’s Good Food issue as a prelude to his keynote speech at the North Coast Co-op’s Sustainable Agriculture Expo. Now we bring you the speech itself, with a big thank you to the folks at KMUD and in particular reporter Kerry Reynolds, who recorded […]
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olives @ the market this morning
Went yard saleing this morning. The car was low on gas so we stopped at the 76 by the Plaza, where they still actually pump your gas. While the car was filling, I dashed across the street to the mini-farmers’ market at Café Brio. Picked up some Brussels sprouts from Willow Creek Farms (we’ll try […]
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Farm Bureau Fandango
The Humboldt Beacon‘s report this week on the Humboldt County Farm Bureau’s annual gathering at the Scotia Inn provided some (somewhat ancient) figures on the financial prowess of our county’s “top five” agricultural products: “In 2006 agricultural production was $294,787,100 with 690,000 acres in agricultural use and 67,000 of those acres intensively farmed. During this […]