A couple of weeks ago we visited Foothill Farm, where Julie and her family grow vegetables, hay, and meat. With a beautiful location at...you guessed it...the foothills of the Mission Mountains, they have a good deal of garlic and tomatoes growing for the cooperative and plenty of other produce for market. Up until this year, Julie used her work horses to tend the fields. Her passion for using animal power as opposed to petroleum was clear, but as her husband works 45 minutes away and her daughter is still quite young, the constant practice the horses needed proved too much. She has an amazing deal going, though. Her parents have recently retired and joined her to work part-time in the fields and a young sharecropper lends her hands as well.
We also recently brought Mabel up to the PEAS farm to have some free-roaming leashless time (over 9 acres of it!). She did quite well. Turns out she has some secret running skills and is still trying to figure out what to do with cats.
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