blackberry farm“In 1972, Aggie and Walter Murch bought four acres known as the “old Peters Dairy” on Gospel Flat in Bolinas. There the Murchs raised children, horses and vegetables until the children grew up and the horses died. Now Aggie concentrates on her orchard of English and American heritage apples, twenty-four different varieties in all, one of which has survived from Mrs. Peter’s original garden. Roaming the orchard is a flock of flamboyantly feathered chickens. Each fall Aggie, with John Perry of Stinson Beach, who built the cherry wood apple press at Blackberry Farm, hosts a community apple pressing. Farmers and families from all over West Marin bring their apples and spend the day making cider together.In addition to the eating and cooking apples, Blackberry Farm produces magnificent Bonne de Jersey pears, Meyer lemons, Greengage plums, Rhubarb, Jerusalem artichokes, Lavender, honey and eggs. Most of the produce is sold within a twenty-five mile radius if not directly from the farm.”

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