Our Green Issue hits stands this week so we’re looking a some eco-centric stories in the paper, including the hope for reviving the bull kelp population in our waters. We’ve got a story about how local distiller Alchemy is turning local grain into liquor and pig feed for the Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program farm. Wondering […]
Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program
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Pigs and Whiskey
It is, perhaps, a failure of our collective education that when we think of whiskey, we don’t immediately think of rippling fields of wheat, rye, corn or barley. Those basic grains are the building blocks of most whiskeys. Alchemy Distillery, a young whiskey company based in Arcata, uses local wheat grown at the Hindley Ranch […]
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The Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program to Resume in July
The Humboldt County Sherrif’s Work Alternative (SWAP) program will resume on July 6. The program that gives low-level offenders an alternative to incarceration by letting them work off their sentence closed due to COVID-19 concerns but will resume with health and safety precautions. SWAP participants can work at the Sheriff’s Wood Lot or Farm, the […]