Farm Fresh Food Drive in the News

Hi, my name’s James. James Edmondson. I was born in LA but thankfully moved up north to spend my childhood in Santa Rosa; a tantalizing compromise of progressive thinking and pseudo-city living. There I remained until January 2015 when a blooming interest in regenerative living brought me a few hours north to the fertile lands…
Here are some updates with what has been happening on the farm! Application deadline is coming soon, reach out if you’re interested! Also, if you like these photos, follow us on instagram @school_of_adaptive_agriculture
Tim Ward here, Farm School Co-director since this past December and current manager of the field crop production here at the Grange Farm School site. Planting time for the summer is almost here. The “last frost date” (average) for the Grange Farm School main fields, in a frost-prone valley bottom of the Northern California coast range,…
Surrounded by rustling, rolling grasslands, an irrigated pasture, vegetable, grain, and fruit production dotted throughout this agrarian valley, the Summer Practicum Students found themselves at the end of their first week with a visitor at our Friday dinner potluck. Colin Seis hails from Australia, where he manages Winona, a 2,000 acre property producing merino wool,…
Last Thursday night, the over-wintering team at the Grange Farm School came together for a delicious family dinner. It sometimes can feel like a group therapy session when we are all finally able to sit around the table and talk and laugh after a long week. While it was not exactly a fancy candle lit dinner, we…
*Read part 1 of Michael Foley’s post on Micro-Agriculture here * Making Micro-Agriculture Work I recently made the economic case for micro-agriculture, farming on three acres or less. A handful of farmers in Mendocino County are showing that very small-scale farming can produce a respectable income; and farmers around the country, including some well-known farmer-authors,…