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Startup of the Month: Advance Ag

Agtech company aims to bring real-time data tools to farmers

Using Internet-of-Things devices and sensors, the Sacramento-based startup analyzes real-time plant data to monitor the health and performance of crops and water soil saturation.

Feb 3, 2023 Russell Nichols

Neighborhood Favorite: Good Things to Eat

A mother-daughter team explore the cuisines of their heritage

With Good Things to Eat, Delcy and Elinor Steffy explore the cuisines of their heritage, including African American, Armenian, German, Hungarian and Jewish roots. 

Jan 31, 2023 Jennifer Fergesen

A New Year for a Changing Community

Iu Mien American leaders and entrepreneurs celebrate Lunar New Year

The Capital Region is home to the country’s densest concentration of Iu Mien people, part of a Southeast Asian nomadic tribe with roots in Southern China. Immigrant and American-born members of the community come together to celebrate the holiday and support each other.

Jan 27, 2023 Sen Saetern

Teetotalist’s Total Commitment

The founders of Sacramento’s first non-alcoholic bar offer a different kind of drinking culture

The two entrepreneurs have tapped an experienced mixologist to work with them on developing their cocktail menu, and have relied on some of the most experienced non-alcoholic distilleries in the nation to help create an experience.

Jan 25, 2023 Scott Thomas Anderson

FiftyFifty Brewing Brings 100 Percent

Truckee brewers pioneer craft beer in the high country

Though quality breweries are cropping up between Donner’s Pass and South Lake Tahoe, the first to drive its stakes in the snow — and the one that’s now shipping beer across the world — is FiftyFifty.

Jan 11, 2023 Scott Thomas Anderson

A Winter Wonderland of Breweries

South Lake Tahoe’s craft beer scene is exploding

These days, Lake Tahoe’s south shore has enough breweries for a full tasting tour, giving explorers more reason to drive into the mountains.

Jan 10, 2023 Scott Thomas Anderson

Seka Hills Olive Oil Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation produces nature’s bounty on 22,000 acres of tribal land in the Capay Valley

The olive oil produced by Seka Hills is used by more than 300 restaurants, from the famed Chez Panisse in Berkeley to Mulvaney’s Building & Loan in Sacramento, and sold in 700 specialty markets.

Dec 22, 2022 Judy Farah

The Race to Harness the Sun

As drought devastates area farms, do agrivoltaics offer a lifeline?

Combining grazing with large-scale solar is one version of the new field of agrivoltaics, which combines panels with farming and ranching. Advocates say it could help farmers adapt to the state’s driest weather in 1,200 years while making space for the thousands more panels needed to hit California’s ambitious zero-carbon targets. 

Dec 21, 2022 Steven Yoder

Ghost Kitchens Spread in Sacramento

Rentable kitchen spaces offer a flexible business model for food entrepreneurs and landlords

A trend that helped many restaurants stay afloat during the pandemic has become a burgeoning new business model.

Dec 7, 2022 Robin Douglas

Startup of the Month: California Cultured

Food tech company makes real chocolate from plant cells

It takes about five years for a cocoa tree to grow and start producing cocoa beans. But Alan Perlstein, who spent the last 20 years in cellular agriculture and pharmaceuticals, had an idea: Why not bypass the tree and just grow the bean?

Dec 6, 2022 Russell Nichols
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