Ferrer Family Farms… When Maria Ferrer slices into one of her blood oranges to demonstrate its beauty and flavor to her farmers market customers, she knows she’s also building a network around herfruit. “My mom really likes the relationships with the different customers she has,” says her youngest son, Oscar. “They’ve built a whole community around the farmers markets.” Blood …
We Are What We Eat
It’s Time To Make Food Decisions With the Climate Crisis in Mind… If we had been told, a decade ago, that so many climate-fueled disasters would hit the food system so soon, would we have believed it? If someone had described the catastrophic flooding of the Missouri river that submerged a million acres of corn and soybeans in 2019 (followed …
Feast of the Farm
Q&A With Sweet Thistle Farms… Edible: Please tell us about Sweet Thistle Farms. Sarah: Sweet Thistle is a small family farm in Clovis that grows 40 varieties of cut flowers, veggies and fruit and offers a fall pumpkin patch. My husband, Luke, and I are both fifth-generation farmers and enjoy growing and cultivating the land in the fertile soil of …
Dreamy Creamery
Rocky Oaks Goat Creamery… The saying goes, “Great cheese come from happy cows and happy cows come from California.” But cows aren’t the only happy four-legged cheese makers in California. Right in the heart of the Central Valley are some very happy goats, producing really great cheese. Rocky Oaks Goat Creamery offers small-batch artisan farmstead cheese from its dreamy creamery …
Local & In Season
Come check out what’s fresh, and in season, down here in San Joaquin Valley!