BLOGS

Miscellaneous blogs about Ocean Mist Farms, farming and agriculture

An Essay: The Smell Of Ag

I can smell it. As I’m driving down highway 1, heading south through Moss Landing and into Castroville, there is it. That smell. The same smell that wafts through the fertile Salinas Valley with ag fields …

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The Art of Growing Artichokes

A huge portion of Ocean Mist Farms’ Northern California growing region resides in the fertile fields of Castroville – The Artichoke Center of the World – and nestled in the rich Salinas Valley. Here we grow …

Montery Bay Funnel

Geology, the Monterey Bay and Farming

The gorgeous Monterey Bay in Northern California is one of the most beautiful and cool places in the Golden State. And by cool, we’re talking both literally and figuratively. Us farmers know the huge “funnel” (depicted …