Home & Garden Archives - Living Sonoma County

Oct
27

Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

Loving San Francisco

Posted in Home & Garden, Travel/Explore

As a native San Franciscan, I’ve spent over 5 decades hearing people from all over the world discuss loving San Francisco. Her appeal is like the pull of gravity –...
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Jan
11

Garden Keeper Jerome Cunnie

Posted in Food, Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond

Like many of the farmers I encounter, Jerome Cunnie of the Garden Keeper has been growing food since a young age and can't imagine doing anything else. In high school,...
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Dec
4

Sonoma Broadway Farms

Posted in Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond, Travel/Explore

I recently enjoyed a couple of hours exploring Sonoma Broadway Farms with farmer, Jerome Cunnie. Jerome is part of the Sonoma Broadway Farms food partnership and one of his many...
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Aug
3

Under the California Sun: Farm To Table With My Caro Cugino (Dear Cousin)

Posted in "Perennially Speaking", Food, Home & Garden, Living & Learning

Yesterday was a great day. It was Sunday, and I found myself in the Santa Cruz area for the weekend. Santa Cruz happens to be one of my favorite places...
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Apr
13

Sonoma County She Shed

Posted in Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged a room of one's own, backyard shed, Country living, Day bed, daybed, painted porcelain, she shed, sheshed, Sonoma, sonoma she shed, sonomacounty, toile, typing table, vintage, vintage porcelain, women's shed

When we bought our cottage in 1997, I certainly never envisioned a Sonoma County She Shed in my future. In fact, I had never even heard the term as "she...
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Feb
7

Epicurean Connection’s Sonoma Cheese Making Class

Posted in Food, Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged Ben Sessions, Buena Vista Winery, cheese, cheese making, cheesemaking class, Delice de la Vallee, Epicurean Connection, General Vallejo, General's Daughter, Marian Guadalupe Vallejo, Ricotta, Ricotta cheese, Rumiano, Rumiano cheese, Sheana Davis, Sonoma, Sonoma Cheesemaking class, Three Sticks, Three Sticks Wine, Three Sticks Wines, Valley Ford Cheese, Valley Ford Cheese & Creamery, Valley Ford Highway 1 cheese

Normally, a Sonoma cheese making class would not even cause a blip on my radar because I would simply assume that it would be way beyond my limited culinary abilities....
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Jan
21

Sonoma’s Vintage 5 & Dime Tiddle E. Winks

Posted in Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged 5 & Dime, five-and ten, five-and-dime, Flood Building, Flood Building in San Francisco, Powell and Market Streets, San Francisco, shop local, Sonoma, Sonoma Valley, Tiddle E. Winks, vintage five-and ten, Woolworth's

Even though it doesn't have the size or the inventory of the ultimate five-and-ten of my childhood (Woolworth's!), Sonoma's vintage 5 & dime, Tiddle E. Winks, carries on the tradition...
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Nov
19

Baked loaf of Apple Cider Streusel Bread from Flour and Co

Apple Cider Streusel Bread Recipe

Posted in Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged apple, apple cider, apple cider crumb bread, apple cider streusel bread, Apple farm, apple juice, apple orchard, apple-a-day, apples, Emily Day, Farm Trails, Flour & Co, fuji apples, quick bread, Ratzlaff Ranch, Ratzlaff ranch apple-a-day, sebastopol, Sonoma County, sonoma county apple ranch, sonoma county apples

I recently connected with fellow blogger Emily Day of Flour & Co and she graciously agreed to let me share some of her recipes for her incredibly delicious baked goods....
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Nov
12

Sonoma County Bucket List – Cornerstone Sonoma

Posted in Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond, Travel/Explore Tagged Andy Cao, Bai Yun, Cao Perrot Studio, Chelsea Flower Show, Cornerstone, Cornerstone Gardens, Cornerstone Sonoma, Frey Gardens, Frey Sustainable Gardens, Kate Frey, Kate Frey Gardens, Sonoma, Sonoma County, Sunset Gardens, Xavier Perrot

One of the goals of the blog was to inspire me to ramp up my exploration of the North Bay and to be able to put check marks next to...
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Aug
25

Sonoma County Fruit Crisp

Posted in Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged Abi Bordigioni, Abi Zimmerman, Abigail Zimmerman, Annadel Estate Winery, Fruit Crisp, Plumcots, Santa Rosa Plums, Serres Ranch Blueberries, Sonoma County, Sonoma County Fruit, Sonoma County Fruit Crisp, The Creative Palate

One of the first people who followed me back on Instagram was Abigail Zimmerman Bordigioni of Annadel Estate Winery in Sonoma County. Abi was blogging at that time as Abi's...
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