Merso Labs is the only laboratory to offer COVID-19 testing to the public.
This is a man who takes his mussels seriously. It’s not that he loves eating mussels, but that he found a niche in farming them. Even with the challenges that go with any farming venture, he is passionate about...
Interest in Santa Barbara County's COVID-19 quarantine hotel room program for farmworkers is growing, as outreach expands and a second hotel l…
Despite economic challenges posed by the ongoing health crisis, city taxes incurred by Lompoc's open-market cannabis industry — which go into the city's general fund that primarily funds police and fire — added a total of $983,000 in revenue in 2020, $533, 513 more than initial projections.
Jane’s Good Witch Farm is now just over a year old. By definition, a witch is “a woman thought to have magical powers.” Born on Halloween, Jane would tell you that she’s committed to using her powers for good in the world.
The Finleys opened the Honor Stand in 2008, as an outlet to sell produce leftover from sales at the farmers’ markets. They would hose off the produce, give it a fresh cut and put it on the table. People came.
Don and his wife Ann run San Marcos Farms Honey Company, a small family-owned business specializing in artisanal bee products. Whereas some apicurists pour their honey into 55-gallon drums and sell them to packers as is, Don is a producer-packer who currently sells his varietal honeys along with...
A list of northern Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County distribution sites are provided.
The first phase of a survey of California farmworkers about the impacts of COVID-19 found a community afraid to seek medical help, suffering f…
The expo will include access to a greater diversity of topics and speakers from all over the world, including Tasmania, New York and Pennsylvania.
A lack of access to COVID-19 personal protective equipment and an adequate labor force are among the greatest needs of Central Coast farmers a…
“We’re excited to continue to grow our efforts in community food access and supporting local farmers."
Work is expected to begin soon on developing a long-awaited ordinance to allow Santa Barbara County farms and ranches to host overnight guests…
UC Cooperative Extension’s fourth Ag Innovations Conference: Comprehensive Crop Care, postponed from an earlier date, will be held in a virtua…
Santa Barbara County’s tax revenue from cannabis operations took a big jump in the fourth quarter of the 2019-20 fiscal year, totaling more th…
Residents in Santa Barbara County are among those nationwide who have received “mysterious and unsolicited seeds from China,” and the County A…
Santa Maria Strawberry Field Day will be presented by UC Cooperative Extension in a virtual format Tuesday, July 28, said Surendra Dara, entomology and biologicals adviser.
The value of agricultural crops produced in Santa Barbara County in 2019 rose 5.1% over the previous year, exceeding $1.6 billion, according to the annual Agricultural Crop Report released Monday.
A petition has been launched online to ask the Santa Barbara and Ventura counties’ boards of supervisors to take steps to increase COVID-19 pr…
An application from one of Santa Barbara County’s pioneer wineries to use up to 100% of grapes from offsite in its wines earned preliminary ap…
A list of northern Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County distribution sites are provided.
A conditional use permit could be required of all cannabis cultivation operations in Santa Barbara County — even those already being processed for lesser permits — if the Board of Supervisors approves ordinance amendments recommended by the Planning Commission.
In an effort to aid organizations stepping up during the coronavirus pandemic, California-based berry seller Driscoll's has donated $450,000 t…
State and federal officials say food poses no threat for transmitting the coronavirus, but Central Coast growers are taking steps to protect t…
Santa Ynez Valley residents can expect to see an increase in the number and destructive effects of wildfires, rising air temperatures, decreasing rainfall, changing crops and growing practices and new agricultural pests as a result of climate change, according to speakers at a Thursday night forum.