The Power of Plums
Family business spotlight: The Taylor sisters turned their family’s heritage farm into a prestigious skincare line
Jacqueline, Allison and Elaine Taylor traveled with their father to Asia as he expanded Taylor Brothers Farms’ organic prune business. All this family immersion laid the groundwork for when they decided to branch out and form their own plum-related company Le Prunier.
From Small Prune Farm to Global Enterprise
Family business spotlight: Taylor Brothers Farms in Yuba City is the world’s largest organic dried prune producer
When Earl Gorman Taylor planted his first plum tree on the 70 acres he bought in Sutter County in 1916, he could never imagine that his grandson Richard would one day turn it into a global empire. That’s exactly what Taylor Brothers Farms is now — the world’s largest producer and global distributor of organic prunes and prune products.
Wine and Family, Aging Gracefully Together
Family business spotlight: The sixth generation of an ag family keeps growing at Heringer Estates
In a delicious coincidence, the year that Heringer Estates in Clarksburg introduced its pinot noir was the same year the film comedy about wine lovers, “Sideways,” with its references to the same varietal, hit theaters. “Our sales just soared in 2004,” says Mike Heringer, CEO and winemaker at his eponymous, six-generation family business.
What Terra Madre Americas Revealed About the Future of Wine
Winemakers from Mexico, Chile and beyond joined California vintners to celebrate slow wine in a changing world
Here are a few highlights from the Slow Wine Coalition’s panels, and takeaways that may inform the Capital Region’s small winemakers.
With Slow Food Festival, Sacramento Hopes to Enter New Era as a Food Destination City
Terra Madre Americas may help put Sacramento on the culinary tourism map
A big international food festival inspired by the slow food movement debuts in downtown Sacramento this month. The event may help make the city a culinary destination — as it did for a relatively sleepy city in Italy three decades ago.
Craft Beer’s New Playbook: Adapt or Go Flat
With Gen Z drinking less and costs rising, craft brewers are turning to comedy, cuisine and community events to stay afloat
In the face of closures and whispers of an oversaturated market,
Sacramento area breweries are rethinking their purpose and
connection to local neighborhoods.
According to Michelin, California’s Top Sommelier Is in Sacramento
Chef Chris Barnum-Dann of Localis on his battle with darkness and rise to the top
“I wanted to be the best at everything I’ve ever done in my life,” says Chef Chris Barnum-Dann of Localis, who received the Sommelier Award from the 2025 California Michelin Guide.
Visit Sacramento Unveils Menu for Tower Bridge Dinner
The annual dinner pays homage to the first Farm-to-Fork Festival at Terra Madre Americas
Ahead of Farm to Fork at Terra Madre, Visit Sacramento recently unveiled the menu for the Tower Bridge dinner, always an epicurean event. Get a preview here.
When There’s a Still, There’s a Way
Amador County winery Iron Hub branches out with its own brandy, starting with a homemade still
Some wineries across America, from the California coast to Maine, have expanded from traditional wine making into the distilling process, using their grapes to make high octane spirits. Here’s how Amador County winemaker Tom Jones keeps his spirits up as the wine industry trends down.
Behind the Doors of Sacramento’s Small Food Factories
Three beloved local businesses prove that old-school flavors never go out of style
Deep inside the belly of Corti Brothers in East Sacramento, past the double doors marked “employees only,” past the walk-ins and shelves of goods and hustling employees, a piercing klaxon is sounding in the kitchen. Is it a fire alarm? Has a miscreant entered through a back door to burgle a jar of vintage marmalade? Much more dire: The cheese ravioli filling in the ravioli machine hopper is getting low.