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It’s mid-August already!  We’re just three weeks away from our Festival Debut.  BUT my garden is in desperate need of my attention and love!  so this morning I woke up early to beat our California foothill summer heat.
In the early light and slight breeze, I hear the sprinklers sputter and trickle, giving my flowers and [...]

We’ve been working on fund raising to help support our Festival.  Imagine trying to host a big party without the “back up” to cover the costs–like the porta-potties!  Well, up stepped my good buddy Greg Popovich at Gold Rush MotoSports, and now we’ve got a Very Cool Raffle!
1st Prize–A 2008 Honda Rincon 4-Trax ATV, perfect [...]

From left: Alexa Janicki, Rebecca Schmidt & Lauren Sutherland are here having a great time chatting and doing inventory!  Come and join the fun!!!

ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS…Join us this Sunday morning (7/20 at 8:30am) at Rancho Torales Olive and Lavender Farm in Richards Ranch for our last pre-festival event.
Farmers Joy and Sandy Severin invite Plein Air artists and photographers to enjoy the morning light at their exquisite farm.  If you’d like to be a part of this group, please [...]

Why is it that we learn to honor the hard work of our fathers later in life?  I can attest to the strength of Marian’s commitment to helping farmers.  Perhaps, in memory of her own father, she and her husband Allan, are donating time and service to Farms of Tuolumne County.  Thanks, Marian & Allan, [...]

108 degrees today in downtown Sonora!  Poor garden is looking droopy, but I’m doing a bit of evening water.  Then I think about Kristy Worman, the farmer at Golden Brodaiea Farms.  She has a hillside of raised beds for her amazing flower garden.  How does she handle farming in this kind of weather?  But that [...]

I bent down to pull a weed. When I sat up a week had flown by!  Sorry to have missed you fine readers.
Sonora Farmers’ Market was a-buzz this Saturday.  Mama Gee passing out Vegan Mousse Torte–Oh, yum! Both Table Mountain Beef women there–Leslie Hurst and Corinne Macho working together.
Dueling vegetable booths as good friends Katie [...]

As I get ready to dash off to a meeting for the Festival, please let me stand up and cheer Farms of Tuolumne County!  This non-profit is our great partner in the Foothill Farmlands ARTS Festival.  Without them we’d be a regular old art festival.  But, we’ve got 35+ family-owned farms in Tuolumne County, and [...]

Community non-profits and their causes–We couldn’t do anything without our donors and sponsors!  The Foothill Farmlands ARTS Festival is a living example of just that.
This project began with three people and one powerful foundation having synchronistic inspiration:  Olivia Armstrong, Central Sierra Arts Council’s executive director (11/2005 to 6/2008), Sasha Farkas, Farms of Tuolumne County’s president, [...]

Smokey air all over California right now!  Hopefully blue skies and starry nights will return soon.  This is when I worry about WATER!  Midwest farmers in a deluge; California farmers praying for crops to hang on.
But despite thick brownish-gray smoke, my team and I visited Rosemary’s Roses today. Hoyt Cory and his sweetie Lynn Driscoll [...]