🍇 Now Available: 2025 Dutton Ranch Grapes – Russian River Valley As vineyards enter fruit set and canopy management season, forward-thinking producers are already planning for harvest. That’s why we’re spotlighting three premium lots from one of Sonoma County’s most respected growers: •...

Dutton Ranch: Generations of Farming in Sonoma County. Join Amy G as she sits down with Steve and Joe Dutton of Dutton Ranch to talk about growing up in their family’s Sonoma County farming business, honoring the values their parents instilled, and the thoughtful steps they’re taking today to...

Verdi Block Controller – Wireless Irrigation with Verified Flow Verdi’s Block Controller brings smart irrigation to your fingertips—fully wireless, battery-powered, and installable in minutes with no trenching or rewiring required. Just connect your solenoid, scan the QR code, and start automating...

Each Family Has Continuously Farmed Land for More than 100 Years The image of vibrant farms and rugged ranches set among Sonoma County’s beautiful landscapes has long been sought after by tourists, painters and photographers. The sheer beauty has always stood out, but, given that the area’s first...

More Than 220,000 Acres in California are Enrolled in FFF Program NAPA, Calif. (November 25, 2024) – Thirty-two winegrape growers and wineries from Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties have been recognized with the Founders’ Award from the Fish Friendly Farming Certification program for achieving...

Growers Enjoy Near Perfect Growing Season SANTA ROSA, Calif. (October 31, 2024) – The 2024 winegrape harvest has just completed in Sonoma County and both growers and vineyard employees are raving about what may be one the best vintages in the past 50 years. According to Karissa Kruse, president and...

The 3rd annual Healdsburg Wine and Food Experience was a weekend-long celebration that featured the best of Sonoma County and world-renowned food and wines. This year's festival showcased the region's makers – farmers, growers, winemakers and chefs – alongside globally recognized wines,...

A Later and Prolonged Harvest Led to Exceptional Quality and Quantity SANTA ROSA, Calif. (November 20, 2023) – August 24th marked the beginning of another record-breaking harvest in Sonoma County and winegrowers and their vineyard employees finally gathered recently in a local vineyard to discuss...

Jose Aceves, a 54-year veteran of Dutton Ranch, claimed the Sonoma County vineyard workforce’s highest honor over the weekend Jose Aceves was just 19 when he began working at Dutton Ranch, a sixth-generation family farm, apple orchard and vineyard in Santa Rosa. That was 1969. Fifty-four years...