Grow Local Magazine Mar/Apr 2021

Until last year, Sarah Silva prided herself on raising animals who lived a good life, from start to finish. At Green Star Farm just outside of Sebastopol, her pigs, chickens and lambs grazed happily under an open sky on lush grasses until the day they took a quick jaunt to the processing facility in Petaluma. The following Sunday, you’d find Sarah suggesting pork chop recipes to her customers at the farmers’ market in town. The entire process took place within a 20-mile radius.