by Hannah Tangeman Sunny, ripe multi-colored tomatoes fresh off the vine, spicy jalapeño peppers, melons of every shape and flavor, cucumbers yellow and green, intense purple eggplants, crispy cabbages, squash of many flavors, basil, sweeter than sweet corn both yellow and white, tender beans, savory...

by Hannah Tangeman The blustery fall wind could not dim the intense dahlia display at Hall Street Gardens this week. Every imaginable color and sizes too large to believe, are only a vague description of the rows of dahlias blooming with abandon waiting to fill...

by Hannah Tangeman What a difference a summer makes! Tomatoes that have reached the rafters of Trails End Farm hoop house demonstrating the production that has resulted from sunshine and water in their naturally grown protocol. Their wooden baskets of sweet multi-colored tomato gems have...

by Hannah Tangeman Linda Erway’s eye for ceramics changes what you think you know about the craft. She, in a most contemporary way, mixes hand build techniques (flat pieces of clay) with wheel bases or perhaps the reverse. She can’t allow a symmetrical line to...

by Hannah Tangeman It only takes one look at Norma Debaker’s handcraft glass jewelry to know the energy she puts into it as it flashes and glows with bright and shadowy light. Colors that are hard to imagine seem to naturally flow from her kiln...

by Hannah Tangeman Debbie Anderson’s two passions - pottery and gardening – both revolve around the earth’s soil. She shares her pottery with us on random Saturdays when she sells at the Lassen Land and Trust Farmer’s market. Clay comes alive in her hands becoming beautiful...

by Hannah Tangeman Bison have returned to Lassen County, and looking into the passionate eyes of Kathy and Ken one knows that these beasts have walked this same land in another era. Their reverence for these creatures is displayed in every aspect of their lives....

Hulsman Ranch proprietors Hannah and Susan Tangemanby Hannah Tangeman Hulsman Ranch remains one of the longest single-family owned ranches in Lassen County, stewarded into its 151st year by sisters Hannah and Susan Tangeman. The ranch began marketing its own lamb and beef in 2002 with a foray...

by Hannah Tangeman In 2007 for her 64th birthday, Judy Ashbaugh had her ears pierced for the first time. With it was born an earring addiction, when she made more than she could ever wear, she grew to be a farmers market jewelry craft exhibitor....

by Hannah Tangeman The assembly line at GL & L smokehouse stretches across three generations of hands, with son Ches running the slicing machine, Ruth (grandmother) and Blayne (daughter-in-law) wrapping, Nolan and Seth (grandsons) labeling and Wilson (grandfather) collecting and packing the last of the...

by Hannah Tangeman The list of flavors rolls over one’s tongue perusing the pies and moon pies beckoning at the Grandma Schrock’s baked goods booth at the Lassen Land and Trails Trust Market. Blackberry, Blueberry, Cherry, Apple, Peach, Strawberry Rhubarb, and did I mention Pecan? Much of...