Whole Farms

Life is peachy keen! From picking peaches with Paul Buxman at Sweet Home Ranch whose painting is the artwork for he Jubilee, to peeling the skins for our Muscovy ducks and slicing into peaches for pie, life is perfectly delicious. The intense heat + cool spring = delicious fruit and food this Saturday evening from 5-8:30 pm at MOA Oasis Gardens. I left North Fresno at 6:40 pm where it was 109, it was 96 at our farm. Orchards make a difference to how cool it is!

Building Community

We love these farmers! We volunteer together for the Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee and celebrated our twenty first anniversary by visiting their farm. Check them out!

My mother died Saturday March 11, 2017. My brother texted that mom was in the hospital for dialysis in India where my parents vacation in the winters to escape the cold of Toronto, Canada. I applied for an e-visa that night, Friday, I recalled my trip to India thirteen years ago wherein my mother was hospitalized for two weeks and my father slept on the thin, hard, wood bench, never leaving her side. No meals or even sheets were provided. I took care of them then and I wanted...Continue reading

You know what brings me back fo Fresno every year? the Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee on June 25th, 5-8:30 pm. I have traveled the world and been to many festivals and events but none captures the love this event does. I'm teaching a pie making demo. Farmers are in the orchard not pushing for sales of their goods but giving out free samples of their best fruit. Art with flower arranging, tea ceremonies and a kids craft corner. Free farm tours and stone fruit food, treats and drinks for purchase. An evening in a non competitive environment connected to the soil that nurtures us. Like the page www.facebook.com/organicstonefruitjubilee for all the updates. Hope to see all you dear friends out there. We'll be selling our stone fruit lemonade and iced tea

Many of you have been wondering what I'm up to and why I have been so quiet on the western front. I'm sorry. With my grandson passing away, I needed to sort out my priorities. I'm happy to announce I have a volunteer radio show on Party934.com called Mindful Living. It reminds me of the conversations I'd have during my cooking classes at the restaurant. I felt so strongly about health, I wanted to infuse everyone with that passion. I want all of my dear friends, family and c...ustomers to live long and be happy. I hope listening to my show helps you do that. I was insecure about my new venture but I received my first evaluation by a veteran of 20 years that gave my show 10/10 for every aspect. If it's good enough for him, I'm sure it's good enough for those I love. Past shows are archived if you want to catch up with me. I am working on a book, it's fiction. It's helping me process. Hope you'll be reading it soon :) http://party934.com/MindfulLiving/ See more

Butterflies tell us summer is here! Sarai and I will be at the Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee at 5790 Indianola Avenue, Clovis, CA from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm. The first day of summer can't taste sweeter than if you're sampling 50 varieties of peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots etc. Of course the pie might be sweeter, or our stone fruit lemonade, iced tea, angel juice, or the ice cream, pizza, tamales or sandwiches.... you get the drift. Kids under 12 are free. Adults are $5. Ser...iously, the farmers are getting older and tired. They spend six months volunteering their time so they can associate with consumers enjoying the fruit of their labor. Show your local farmers some love by tasting and buying their fruit. $5 and $10 bags are sold and you choose what you fill them with. Kids craft corner, pony rides, Japanese tea ceremony in an authentic miniature japanese tea house shipped from Japan, flower arranging. Craig Scharton from Peeve's and Dan O'Connell will be talking about the local food scene. Joyce will be doing a jam making demo. Do I need to keep going? Love you all and look forward to seeing you there!

Come one, come all to kick off Summer next Saturday June 20th from 5:00-8:30 p.m. Recorded the morning show for Great Day KMPH FOX 26 for Thursday June 18th, tune in to get a preview of what to expect at the Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee this year. Shade cover throughout! Stone fruit pies, lemonades, Japanese tea ceremony, free farm tours, kids craft corner etc. Kids ask me every year when it's time and the time is now! Don't know if we will do the jubilee in this format again so visit this historic event dedicated to the memory of Rosemary Nightingale. Bryce Loewen did a bang up job on his farm interview so taste the sweetness that Blossom Bluffs boasts. with Anahi Luconi and Bruno Luconi.

The Disney story "up" had a real life counterpart in a woman who had been a spy but refused to sell the home her mother had died in for a million dollars to developers. She went from being a pain for the developers to being cared for by the crew dwarfing her home with the mega building. I know I've been scarce on Facebook as I collect myself and take stock., I've spent the last 25 years putting everyone's needs before my own after Kyal's birth when I was just 20 years old. My...Continue reading

My life has been irrevocably changed. I had a dream of a healthy restaurant bustling with locals and tourists in Fresno. I worked hard daily to realize it because I am stubborn and saw the dream with more clarity than the reality. Some days reality fed my dream with full dinner shows and happy throngs of customers. Most days the restaurant was like a large mansion with visitors that were few but ecstatic about being treated to a royal feast of nature's bounty. The last coupl...Continue reading

The question I get asked most is "why would you set up your business on that side of town?" UC Davis said our target should be agritourism and a freeway location with easy on and easy off access was best but it is more than that and I couldn't put my finger on it until yesterday. I've been discriminated against for most of my life because of the color of my skin, sometimes because of my gender and sometimes because of my religious beliefs. In India, there was a caste system ...Continue reading

Fresno sucks! Wait, what, that's not true! But negativity sells. I apologize for the market research I did yesterday to test the theory that I could get thousands of people to see my posts on Facebook without paying to boost it. We have 3,500 fans on Facebook and only 200-800 see our posts unless I boost them for $40. I paid to boost my posts about our restaurant needing more support without much success. I wrote a brief paragraph last Monday that we were closing permanently ...Continue reading

We close in 8 days so come one, come all!! Cooking class today is roasted veggie and quinoa burgers and an awesome dessert! Sizzler is our final murder mystery show on the 25th. Celebrate food day on Friday the 24th with an authentic gourmet indian meal and Bhangra party. $20 for class all you care to eat. $25 for dinner show. $100 for our fundraiser. Two or more people are $75 each. People keep asking us what's next? Where you go is largely affected by where you are leaving ...Continue reading