Category: Community
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The People’s Garden: Farmworker families grow food for themselves & those in need
Pants freshly stained with grape juice after a long night harvesting a nearby vineyard, a worker arrives to a farm just outside Healdsburg. After an exhausting shift, he should be heading straight for a shaded hammock for some much-deserved rest. Instead, he walks between towering banana plants and a greenhouse…
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The Best of Both Worlds: An Immigrant Legacy of Entrepreneurship
Surrounded by succulents, snake plants, and philodendrons in her downtown Santa Rosa shop, Ana Prado describes herself as “Con el nopal en la frente,” which translates to “with a cactus on the forehead.” For the founder of a new plant boutique on Courthouse Square, this might seem an apt if…
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Finding Unity Through Food: A Global Table at Sonoma Family Meal
“I come from a country where hunger dominated our population,” explains Jules Sinai, who arrived in Sonoma County last year from Haiti, “so, I know the importance of feeding people and am passionate about food and the happiness it can make in people’s lives.” Despite recent false claims from fear-mongering…
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Pandora Thomas and the Promise of Earthseed
Riding on a wicker throne, Frances Louise Thomas, 81 years of age, is carried out from beneath an unseasonably hot sun by four young men to the shade of a mother willow tree. A dog and cat kick up dirt at their feet while a hawk circles above. Only a…
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