What is on Melanie’s Mind

At Nature’s Touch, we believe the best pest control isn’t chemical—it’s natural. With beneficial insects from Rincon-Vitova Insectaries and simple tools like cinnamon, you can protect your plants while building a living, balanced ecosystem.

  It used to be simple. You woke up, cracked an egg into a pan, and never once asked how it got there. At first, the changes came dressed as progre...

For many years, Nature’s Touch Nursery & Harvest looked like what most people expect when they walk into a nursery or farm store a larger build...

International Women’s Day  A Reflection Today I celebrate the journey of being a woman who has chosen to live with her hands in the soil, her voic...

To every politician, every policymaker, every attorney drafting another regulation from behind a polished desk in Washington This is not a policy b...

There was a time when food was judged by smell, by taste, by the way it felt in your hands. A crooked carrot meant it grew around a stone. A blemis...

Americans are not short on opinions but we are increasingly afraid of accountability. Somewhere along the way, calling out bad behavior became “me...

There was a time not long ago when a quiet movement was growing. Across towns, coastlines, and back roads, people were beginning to ask questions a...

The town of Red Hollow was never rich, but it was once capable. There had been a time when people there knew how to make a living with their hands,...

In the 1950s, the world was tired of hunger. The war had ended, factories stood ready, and science promised something no generation before had dar...

In California, dawn once came with headlights rolling down dirt roads, boots crunching gravel, hands wrapping around thermoses before wrapping arou...