May 21, 2019 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Napa, CA (May 21, 2019) – The Napa Farmers Market has hired two new staff members. Mimi Adams was named assistant market manager effective May 18 and Hylah Egeland joined the team as education director in April. “Mimi Adams started volunteering...
May 14, 2019 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by Janet Fletcher Napa Register Anybody else remember Vanessi’s, the long-gone Italian restaurant in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood? I lived nearby for a few years, in my 20s, and I loved going to Vanessi’s and eating at the counter so I could watch the...
May 2, 2019 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Napa, CA (May 2, 2019) — The community is invited to celebrate the kickoff of Fiesta First Saturdays (Fiesta del Primer Sábado) at the Napa Farmers Market beginning Saturday, May 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the South Napa Century Center, 195...
Apr 30, 2019 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by David Layland Napa Valley Register Because of the effect weather can have on growing almost every crop, you can’t be too certain when a particular crop will arrive at the Napa Farmers Market. The market asks all farmers to provide the dates they will be at the...
Apr 17, 2019 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by Marilyn O’Connell Napa Valley Register I am a self-proclaimed egg-o-maniac. I love eggs. I adore the petite speckled quail egg and I savor the hearty duck egg. There is no better start to my day than cracking open a beautiful farm-fresh egg and seeing that...
Apr 17, 2019 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
By Carine Hines Napa Valley Register It’s the time of year when farmers look around and see cotyledons everywhere. Cotyledons are a plant’s first “leaves.” These baby leaves are the plant’s first source of energy and look markedly different from the true leaves a...
Mar 27, 2019 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Napa, CA (March 27, 2019) —Tuesday, April 2, is opening day for the weekday morning Napa Farmers Market, which will continue each Tuesday through the end of October in the parking lot of the South Napa Century Center from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm. To...
Feb 19, 2019 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by Janet Fletcher Napa Valley Register My favorite television show, the PBS NewsHour, had an interview recently with Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist who has just published a new book about the heart. Called “Heart: A History,” the book is written for the lay person who...
Feb 13, 2019 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by Carine Hines Napa Valley Register On the tail of a wet storm that drenched our state’s still-thirsty soils, I want to share a farmer’s relationship to rain. My husband and I have farmed through one of California’s greatest droughts and through one of its wettest...
