May / June 2026 Archives

Jennifer Daly, co-owner and CEO of Rainy Day Chocolate in Forestville, Sunday, March 29, 2026, leads a tour of the facility. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat)

Rainy Day Chocolate in Forestville Offers Tastings, Classes for Everyday Sweetness

May 2026

Forestville’s newly opened Rainy Day Chocolate hosts classes and tastings at its shop tucked into a small strip mall.

TreeNests are prepared with beeswax and a resinous substance called propolis to attract honeybees before being installed. (Eileen Roche)

Apis Arborea’s Unconventional Approach To Boost the Honeybee Population

May 2026

Honeybees are essential to our food system and their dwindling numbers have caused alarm. The head of a Sebastopol nonprofit encourages them to live outside of the box hive.

The freshest corn tortillas sold by the pound Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, at the Tortilleria La Loteria fresh tortilla factory food truck on Stony Point Road in Santa Rosa. (John Burgess / The Press Democrat)

Sonoma County’s Mobile Tortillerías Offer a Taste of Home

May 2026

A new kind of food truck has been popping up in Sonoma County: mobile tortilla factories, or tortillerías, that offer community connection alongside fresh, warm corn tortillas.