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Read MoreThe Annual Scion Exchange:
California Rare Fruit Growers AssociationWritten by Rachel Duchak | Jun 11, 2013Where can you trade fruit tree scion wood like baseball cards and learn how to graft from the pros? At the annual scion exchange during the February California Rare Fruit Growers Association (CRFG) meeting (Central Coast chapter), generally held at the Crops Unit at Cal Poly—San Luis Obispo. The CRFG helps individuals learn more about...
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Read MoreFrom Midwest Bland to California Fruit Flavor
Written by Rachel Duchak | May 30, 2013When I first moved to the Central Coast from Ohio, I was thrilled to see the bounty of strawberries on offer at the San Luis Obispo farmers market. Back east, the strawberry season lasts a quick three weeks, if you’re lucky. After buying loads of berries, I brought them home and prepped them for freezer storage so I could enjoy...
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Read MoreA Simple Solution for Nutrition Confusion
Written by Rachel Duchak | May 20, 2013To gluten or not to gluten? That is the question on the minds of many Americans as well as whether fish oil is right for them, if they should stop taking calcium supplements just a few years after their doctor told them to start, and what the heck is lycopene anyway? We suffer from a serious case of nutrition confusion that keeps many...
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Read MoreBaking Bread, Cracking Jokes & Missing Mom
Written by Rachel Duchak | May 6, 2013My Mom isn’t remembered for what I’ll call her “hands-off goulash,” a boring, overcooked stew with ground chuck bubbling away in the crockpot when we came home from school. Her breakfast skills were limited to preparing electric-skillet fried onions and potatoes and scrambled eggs or getting us to make our own instant oatmeal and...
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Read MoreMy Coffee Odyssey
Written by Margaret C. Lange | May 2, 2013Coffee has always been with me except for a few times when I thought it best to quit it, but I soon came back to my senses. When I was eye level to the stove, I watched bubbles bouncing in the clear glass knob on top of the percolator. My folks drank the brew in the mornings and with friends at the kitchen table when they came to visit....
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Read MoreSummer Salads Get Dressed Up
Written by Cari Clark | May 1, 2013Summer is here and so are salads. We eat them year ’round but this is a special time for salads. We grow gourmet greens and edible flowers for the Friday night Avila farmers market. There is nothing as satisfying as growing your own greens. The life force you get when you enjoy just-cut greens is indescribable. I...
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Read MoreExtra Fancy Sauce at Pebble Beach Food & Wine
Written by Rachel Duchak | Apr 5, 2013I can honestly say that I’ve never been to an event quite like Pebble Beach Food & Wine: Over. The. Top. As I pulled up to the Grand Tasting in my Honda CRV, I giggled at the sign which read, “Free valet parking when you drive your Lexus,” and knew that I was in for something completely different at this tasting event. As I...
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Read MoreEnjoy Fresh Fish from Local Central Coast Waters
Written by Margie Hurd | Apr 2, 2013When Swordfish, Halibut, and Salmon are available, it’s easy for us at the SLO Fresh Catch booth to sell fresh fish at the San Luis Obispo County farmers’ markets because shoppers generally know how to prepare steaks and filets of these familiar fish. But it’s early spring and our commercial fishermen are catching less familiar...
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More Recent Articles
The Annual Scion Exchange:
California Rare Fruit Growers Association
Where can you trade fruit tree scion wood like baseball cards and learn how to graft from the pros? At the annual scion exchange during the February California Rare Fruit Growers Association (CRFG) meeting...
Read More
From Midwest Bland to California Fruit Flavor
When I first moved to the Central Coast from Ohio, I was thrilled to see the bounty of strawberries on offer at the San Luis Obispo farmers market. Back east, the strawberry season lasts a quick three weeks, if...
Read More
A Simple Solution for Nutrition Confusion
To gluten or not to gluten? That is the question on the minds of many Americans as well as whether fish oil is right for them, if they should stop taking calcium supplements just a few years after their doctor told...
Read More
Baking Bread, Cracking Jokes & Missing Mom
My Mom isn’t remembered for what I’ll call her “hands-off goulash,” a boring, overcooked stew with ground chuck bubbling away in the crockpot when we came home from school. Her breakfast skills were limited...
Read More
My Coffee Odyssey
Coffee has always been with me except for a few times when I thought it best to quit it, but I soon came back to my senses. When I was eye level to the stove, I watched bubbles bouncing in the clear glass knob on...
Read More
Summer Salads Get Dressed Up
Summer is here and so are salads. We eat them year ’round but this is a special time for salads. We grow gourmet greens and edible flowers for the Friday night Avila farmers market. There is...
Read More
Extra Fancy Sauce at Pebble Beach Food & Wine
I can honestly say that I’ve never been to an event quite like Pebble Beach Food & Wine: Over. The. Top. As I pulled up to the Grand Tasting in my Honda CRV, I giggled at the sign which read, “Free valet...
Read More
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