Summer Pruning in the Butler Cherry Orchard

With the hot season of Mendocino County rearing its dry golden head, we here in the little hilltop village of the Grange School are defying the stagnancy of summer days as we enter week four of our fast-paced, intensive student practicum program. So heat be damned! We’re rolling strong through days of hearty field work,…

The Thanksgiving Holiday has come in for a lot of criticism lately, some of it well-placed. But for all the truth in the complaint that is romanticizes relations between whites and Native Americans and obscures the terrible history of colonialism, that point itself obscures the profound message at the hear of the holiday — namely,…