The Foodie Guide

“Chileno Valley Ranch has been in Sally’s family since 1862, when her great-great grandparents, Carlo and Katerina Martinoiya, bought the ranch from Henery Halleck, President Abraham Lincoln’s Chief of Staff. Since then, the ranch has passed through 5 generations, all the while producing butter, cheese, milk and beef. In 1993, Sally and Mike began restoring […]

“We’re a small family farm in the idyllic Two Rock Valley north of San Francisco, something like you might find in the countryside of France or Italy. Together with our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) members, our farmworkers and friends, we’re a community, a village of sorts. We work together to feed each other, support each […]

“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 […]