Surrounded by farmers

I finally took a picture of the farm closest to me, Oluf's Ranch, being less than one mile away. Their field of ever-growing pumpkins and maize-corn grow taller each day. I can come by for a hayride (see the roadside sign) in the first week of October, whee! When I googled, I noticed that they participate in something called Farm Trails, that I assume everyone in Sonoma County already knew about, except for me. It seems like I'm interested in what's referred to as Agritourism, knowing where the heck the food comes from, how it was made and grown - seeing it first hand.

Farm Trails publishes a Farm Trails Map & Guide of Sonoma County, whereby you can visit hundreds of farms, ranchers and so on. I'm told that they pioneered the idea of agritourism in California. When I looked at the Farm Trails map, it also mentions for example Golden Nectar Farm, two miles away from me... Look at that, I had no idea, I'm surrounded by farmers. Local Harvest describes them as having a hundred varieties of organically grown fruit, vegetables, flowers and herbs.

I was actually not so fond of pumpkins, however a year ago a friend of mine's girlfriend decided to make a pumpkin pie from scratch that knocked my socks off - it really was that good. I think the "secret" ingredient was a little Rum...