Gibsey and Josh Beckett talk about growing up in the wine industry, living on the beach rather than the vineyard, and reimagining the wine industry.
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Ariela Gottschalk and Jeff Pienack talk about their new venture, Arroyo Grande’s Halcyon Farm, which they bought from Jerry Rutiz last year.
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Chef and food stylist Katherine Knowlton shares about her new company Happy Chance, which makes low-dose, whole-food cannabis fruit bites.
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Homesteader and cooking instructor Kristen Telling shares her strategies for helping people nourish themselves with “ancestral eating.”
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Peter Cron, executive director of the SLO County Integrated Waste Management Authority, stops in to talk trash.
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Jack Alger of Paso Robles’s Mutiny Burger chats about beer, burgers, burritos, and guerilla marketing.
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Jaime Dietenhofer talks with me about craft beer, coming home to start a business, and surviving the loss of his business partner, father and friend Jim Dietenhofer.
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Cal Poly agribusiness professor Dr. Ricky Volpe swings by to talk supermarkets: how food is sourced, moved, valued, priced, organized, sold, and understood.
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April Cole Worley swings by to talk about CBD, CBG, THC, and the new “calming sweets” made for her company, Mender, in Atascadero.
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The cast of the Great American Melodrama in Oceano, California, swings by to discuss how they eat for energy, funny snack bar stories, and their deathbed meals, of course.
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SLO Provisions co-owners Steve Bland and Dwyne Willis talk about growing up in the South, the challenges and surprises of owning a business, and how they were unwittingly set up perfectly for feeding folks during a pandemic.
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Spencer Marley forages for seaweed and invites visitors to join him on seaweed foraging tours along Highway 1. We talked about how he came to love the ocean, and why he’s passionate about sharing it with others.
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Winemaker-farmer Eric Jensen sits down to talk about organic farming, being a “knucklehead” kid, caring for the community through Must! Charities, and the new Booker Wines tasting room.
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Harvestly delivers farm-fresh local goods to your door in San Luis Obispo County — like a local Instacart service. Here, Harvestly co-owner Lauryn Luescher shares what the platform is all about.
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Chair of the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Eric Spivey chats about his friend, Julia Child, and the work of her foundation, including Taste of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Culinary Experience.
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I dubbed Barbara Bullock the Chicken Whisperer because she knows so much about keeping a backyard flock. We talk about cooking with eggs, common predators, and how she cared for the poultry while growing up on a local ranch.
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Mary Lagier explains her journey from software engineer to food photographer, how and why she travels, and what makes a good food photo.
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One of the farmer-filmmakers behind the documentary “The Biggest Little Farm” chats with me about regenerative farming, difficult decisions, and the serendipity that led to making the film.
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Nathan Long talks about growing up in San Luis Obispo, the unique vibe of Nate’s On Marsh, his background in agriculture, and his affinity for a meatball and a Manhattan.
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Natalie MacLean and I discuss how she got into wine, the inspiration behind her next book Wine Witch On Fire, and mental health.
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