by Jessica | Oct 28, 2026 | Orchard Care
Pear trees across Sonoma County have been beset by pear blight. Also known as fire blight, this fruit tree pathogen is a familiar one to the North Bay. However, this year it’s been particularly bad for commercial growers and backyard orchardists. According to the...
by Jessica | Sep 28, 2026 | Orchard Care
If you live in Sonoma County and are wondering what is eating your figs from the inside, the culprits are black fig flies (Silba adipata). These fruit tree pests make a tiny hole in the eye of the fruit (the ostiole) and inject their eggs, which hatch into small...
by Jessica | Aug 31, 2026 | Orchard Care
The flip side of Sonoma’s mild, sunny Mediterranean climate coin is our winters. While we get no snow and only an occasional frost, November through March is atmospheric river season. Dense, heavy sheets of rain pour down from the sky, wind howls through our hills and...
by Jessica | Jul 14, 2026 | Orchard Ecology
This summer’s conditions are clear to anyone living in Sonoma. The landscape is more gold than green, and the area’s first red-flag warning came in early June, followed by another over the 4th of July weekend. Winter usually brings us much-needed moisture, and it did,...
by Jessica | Jun 10, 2026 | Orchard Care
To live in Sonoma County is to enjoy near-perfect weather and beauty in abundance. It also means knowing the stomach-churning scent of wildfire and waking to discover a flickering orange gnawing the night’s edges. The Tubbs Fire in October 2017 burned across...
