Joan & Jeff Message: Welcome Spring
"You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda ~ Trees are in bud and bloom, fat robins hopping and days lengthening: [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Breathe Easy
Celebrate the Air! Mendocino's air is magnificent, cleansed by sun and sea spray over 5,000 miles of Pacific Ocean. And, when we first arrived, the Coast air was a [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Travel Light
Happy February Let's face it - there is an environmental cost to any and all travel, but we believe it is imperative we all look for ways to minimize that [...]
The Prius Effect
By Sid Garza-Hillman For the record, I’m not anti-Prius and not just because Joan Stanford drives one…but… “The Prius Effect” is a phrase I coined after many years of [...]
Raising Healthy and Happy Vegan Children – Myths and Challenges!
By Sid Garza-Hillman Sid's Kids My three children (13-year-old twins – boy/girl, 18-year-old daughter) have been 100% plant-based since birth (with the exception of breast milk, a [...]
September, a month for beginnings, change, and our 42nd anniversary
September, a month for beginnings, change, and our anniversary: today we celebrate our 42nd on the Mendocino Coast! On September 15, 1980, we moved into what was then Unit [...]
Sid Garza-Hillman: Blue Zones & Making the 100% Choice
THE BIG IFS by Sid Garza-Hillman A preamble: I’ve been 100% plant-based since 2002, and over the last fourteen years, primarily whole plants (as opposed to the junk vegan [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Finding Hope In Nature
Our hearts go out to the men, women, and children in the Ukraine caught in an unimaginable conflict. In this time of war as well as the darkness of [...]
Earth Care: Four small changes you can make that DO make a difference…
ONE American's toilet paper requires “harvesting” 7,000,000 trees per year, mostly Canadian White Spruce which are found in the world's boreal forests. These forests are the planet's largest terrestrial [...]
Earth Care: Celebrating (a Different) Earth Day
WISHING YOU JOY ON EARTH DAY 2021: Celebrating the Earth is celebrating life, our selves - while celebrating the gifts Nature gives. Nature is to us as Santa Claus [...]