We only recommend products and services we use ourselves and think would enrich the lives of the people we care about. Everyone on this page clears that bar. Some of them have nothing to do with farming, and that is the point.

We spend our working lives on targeted plant nutrition, pull a sample, find out what the ground is honestly short of, and feed it exactly that instead of a blanket rate across the whole ranch. It would be a strange thing to put that much care into dirt and none of it into ourselves. What you put in your body and how you look after it matters more than how you look after the ground you farm and the crop you grow. If we don’t take care of ourselves, we can’t adequately take care of and provide for the people who count on us.

And people learn from what you do, not from what you say. Good nutrition, moving your body, eating clean, that is the same job we do for the dirt, done for the people we go home to.

Where we stand

Nobody lands on this page because they asked to. They are here because we use them, and because we would want them for the people we love.

Where we have a personal connection to somebody listed, it is written on their page, in plain words.

Michelle Mello Shaklee, nutrition and supplements A Shaklee ambassador who lives what she recommends. She starts with a conversation, and if she does not think you need something, she will tell you. Read more

Mello Acres, farm, flock, flowers: a peach dahlia, a Sebastopol goose, a Shorthorn calf, a cream dahlia, a duck and a fluffy chick

Mello Acres Dahlias, geese and hatching eggs, Hanford Michelle's farm in Hanford: dahlias cut in the cool of the morning, Sebastopol, Embden and Toulouse geese, and hatching eggs, sold by conversation. Read more

The lit Fugazzis sign over the patio in downtown Hanford at night

Fugazzis Bistro & steakhouse, Hanford A steakhouse on 7th Street with weekly specials at $12, a family pasta deal that feeds four for $30, and a wine dinner worth clearing a night for. Read more

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