Edible Silicon Valley: A Story on Silicon Valley's Orchardists

Andy Mariani still tends to his apricot, peach, cherry and plum orchards in Morgan Hill, California. But the transformation from rural to urban has changed the way all local growers do their work. This wonderful photo is by Los Altan Yvonne Cornell for Edible Silicon Valley Magazine.

I first got to know grower Andy Mariani, along with local orchard legends Deborah Olson and her father Charles, when I was working on my book California Apricots: the Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley for the History Press in 2012. Knowing them, and meeting the orchardist at the National Trust home Filoli in Woodside, California, came in handy when Edible Silicon Valley magazine came calling.

My friend Catherine Nunes is the publisher of Edible Silicon Valley and she asked for a story on how orchardists were re-imagining their businesses in the changing environment of our booming region.

Edible Silicon Valley Magazine: A New Article by Robin Chapman on A New Way to Look at Green

A glimpse of the Taylor Street Farm in San Jose, California, where both greens and flowers are grown for sale in the middle of the city.

I've recently been doing some writing for a friend of mine who is the new publisher of Edible Silicon Valley, a magazine for the popular food/lifestyle/locavore culture that is a big part of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. In working on ideas for her magazine, we came across something called Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones, and she asked me to turn it into an article for her magazine.