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Did you know that one in six kids in California are affected by childhood hunger?
Could you imagine having to put your child to bed hungry?
It’s heartbreaking.
This shouldn’t be.
You can help.

I am organizing Battle of the Barrels: Team Napa vs Team UpValley, and boy, would we appreciate your support. It’s a food drive benefiting the [...]

I got to go on my first mommy field trip today.
I’d never had the chance before due to those big corporate-y jobs and all.

I think I enjoyed it more than kiddo did.
But she had fun too…

I just realized that all the time/date stamping of my posts has been wrong.
Seems I set the time for 5 hours ahead of the default–instead of 5 hours behind.

So, all my posts for the month–the month I am attempting NaBloPoMo–have been dated ahead of what what is true. The Animal Friends Indeed post? Published yesterday, [...]

Perhaps I spend too much time with my camera in hand.
Suddenly every time I’m taking pictures, kiddo MUST also take at least a shot or two.

Here’s the kind of photos we’re getting.

Do your kids do this too?

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As promised, here is the how-to for the perfect Caprese Salad.

Please don’t be deterred by the length of this recipe, it is truly easy to make.

Caprese Salad with Ovoline

A few things to keep in mind:

Seasonality: Like most foods, this salad is only fantastic when the ingredients are at their best–in season and locally sourced.
Quality: [...]

The excitement in our home this evening is the harvest of our first big heirloom tomato.

With it, we’re making my favorite salad–Caprese Salad.
I’ll tell you all about how we do caprese tomorrow.

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While setting the table, I discovered these guys had joined us.

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Here are shots of the same vineyard in Oakville that I’ve been featuring all this season. You can see the update from three weeks ago here.

From what I hear from my winemaker friends, almost everything this season is delayed–yet growth and development is steady.

I was told this is due to the late rains and the [...]

This is one of those nights when I am just going to post a photo.
Because it’s NaBloPoMo.

No commentary.
No editing.
Just pure summertime.

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