What is on Melanie’s Mind

Warm days don’t mean it’s time to plant. At Nature’s Touch, we teach growers to read the soil — not the sky. Because true success starts below the surface.

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...

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...

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

San Luis Obispo County, nestled between rolling vineyards and rolling hills, was once a patchwork of thriving farms and small homesteads. From stra...

Farming and food laws will not change as long as we continue to support the wrongdoers. They will not change while we allow ourselves to be misled ...

The Generational Gap in Agriculture: Who Carries the Land Forward? Across rural America, a quiet crisis is unfolding. Family ranches and farms—onc...