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Matt Cirne (Verjus and Quince), Caroline Henry (author) and two fans at her book signing event at Verjus in San Francisco Caroline Hen...

An esteemed panel of judges awarded medals this weekend in the 2019 Mendocino County Fair Wine Competition held in Boonville. Judges include...

Dashe Cellars, one of the best urban wineries in the Bay Area, packed up and moved from its long time home in Oakland (not far from Jack Lon...

While my main passion in wine circles is organic and biodynamically farmed wines, I also come to the world of wine having spent 25+ years in...

The St. Louis Business Journal reports this week that Bayer is taking baby steps toward settling the 13,400 pending Roundup weedkiller laws...

The legendary Charlie Barra of Redwood Valley and Calpella died this weekend. He was 92. Born to an Italian immigrant family from Cune...

Gaylon and Lisa Lawrence of Heitz Cellars Not many people know it, but Heitz Cellars has (quietly) been one of the top most organic vin...

In what some would say is a surprising display of tastelessness and scientific inaccuracy, UCCE staffer and UC Davis Professor Dr. Carl ...

If you've recently seen the utterly charming feature doc The Biggest Little Farm (and you should see it if you haven't - definitel...

Mark Arax's new book The Dreant Land looks to be the Big Summer Book on my reading list. It hasn't arrived yet, but I saw a video...

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It's the agrarian ideal for many urbanites—writ large. Take your dog to the country, buy a farm and STAY THERE.  That's the heartw...

CALIFORNIA STATISTICS Toxic fungicides, pesticides, insecticides and herbicides are routinely used in large quantities and applied most fr...

I have decided to publish this press release about groundbreaking scientific research from Professor Seralini in its entirety (below) in ord...

Consumers are fairly consistent when it comes to greenwashing in labeling: 43% of those recently surveyed think that natural means no pestic...

I'll let Professor Cassandra Collins speak for herself on this topic. Here's the link: https://www.wineaustralia.com/news/articles...

UPDATE Sept. 21, 2021: Here is the publication of this research in a peer reviewed journal . It is quite a different story than the one Bont...

Good synopsis of the testimony presented in the Monsanto Roundup trials about to conclude in San Francisco today can be found here . It in...

The Deep Roots Coalition is a band of Oregon winemakers who dry farm. They held a tasting yesterday in SF at Barcino for trade with "g...

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Yesterday, I had a chance to visit the current glyphosate trial in federal district court, a year after covering the original Science We...

"GREAT WINES" FROM ORGANIC OR BD VINES Fourteen wines from certified vineyards in the U.S. received the prestigious designat...