The day before the second graduating class at the Grange Farm School received their certificates, gifts, and parting words of wisdom from staff, friends, family, and community members, the Grange Farm School took a field trip to the Mendocino Coast. There we learned from and herded approximately 400 of Leland Falk’s intensively grazed flock of…
For the past twelve weeks at the Grange Farm School, the students have been involved in raising 120 Red Ranger chickens for meat. They are currently between 3.5 to 5 pounds and look like healthy, happy birds. With daily chores of feeding, cleaning, moving their pens, detangling them from fencing, and herding them through giant stalks…
The count down begins at the Grange Farm School including two more monday meetings, six pigs and sixty chickens to slaughter, and a tasty thanksgiving farewell party. We begin this week recovering from halloween by tucking our wigs and face paint away and digging out our carhartt’s and boots. Hot Buttered Rum played a benefit…
We arise to the call of the trumpet, a sound which promises coffee, breakfast, and a new week at the Grange Farm School. Gathered around our outdoor dinning gazebo we discuss our week past and week to come. With an oversized calendar laid out on the table we fill each square with daily doings. Here…
Fallon is a rare breed. What incredible luck and serendipity that in her travels across the country, her explorations across the landscape of career paths and opportunities, she found us and set down her roots. Hailing from upstate New York, Fallon has been slowly inching her way West working a myriad of odd jobs. Once…
On frequent mornings fair, whilst whistle the waking winged denizens of sun-ready oaks and peeping boppish bays, midst a modal mist whose soaking tones warrant no woe, there jets aloft a golden burst pure and untamed (nor yet famed), an amendment upon the rooster’s ancient decree of Day Come Once More which summons the Grange…
This quintessential hometown dish has so many iterations, modern updates, and twists, it called out to us as the perfect challenge to serve at the 10th Annual Harvest Dinner this year. Today chicken pot pies are too often a can of Campbell’s chicken noodle poured into a frozen pie crust. We are setting out to…
Click HERE to read about the Farm Fresh Food Drive campaign in the Willits News, and consider donating through our Go Fund Me site. Thank you to our sponsors and to our whole community for supporting this effort to bring healthy, fresh, delicious food to our wonderful service organizations dedicated to feeding those less fortunate than ourselves.
Suck, squeeze, bang, and blow: the four steps required to power a 4-stroke engine. Mike Ott of the Mendocino Alcohol Fuel Group uses this moniker to make the mysteries of internal combustion engines easier to visualize. Intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust is the way Takashi Yogi, our resident Industrial Arts master, would teach it. Having…
Join us at the Grange Farm School on August 16th to catch a glimpse of life in the Practicum Student Program while celebrating our Farm Fresh Food Drive! We will begin the day at 9 am with pancakes at the Farm Schoolhouse (in the tradition of the Grange) and we will continue with tours of…
