Her son, Nathan first worked as a volunteer at Forget Me Not Farm during his senior year of high school. He has since completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California Santa Cruz and worked for San Francisco Animal Care and Control before taking on the Farm manager position in 2005. Nathan is now Director of Operations for the Farm.
Deborah Bertolucci is Superintendent of Geyserville Schools, Head of the Geyserville Career Technical Education (CTE) program, and Principal of the Geyserville New Tech Academy.
Her students get to learn about food and farming and life in a way that prepares them for a career in agriculture and a variety of food-related industries.
Nestled in the Alexander valley, the small Sonoma County town of Geyserville is on its way to a fully-funded program and site for outdoor classrooms, farming, science, and technical programs for students with a farm-to-table kitchen, farmer’s market, and community center.
Bertolucci joins Clark Wolf for a conversation that covers how students learn about growing, planting, harvesting, working, cooking, and nutrition.
Bernier Farms is a small, certified organic, family-run farm in Dry Creek and Alexander Valleys of Sonoma County, established in 1976 by Paul and Yael Bernier and known for its diversified farming, sustainable/regenerative ag, farm labor best practices, a farm training/student hosting program, and building farm and food education in the local community. 
Tanya Holland’s California Soul is the name of the newly published book by the popular chef, author, tv personality and community leader. Holland studied in France, has cooked in top restaurants in New York and Boston and has owned and operated several acclaimed and well-loved restaurants in Oakland and San Francisco, including Brown Sugar Kitchen.
Sally Schmitt was arguably among the very most important voices and practitioners in the development and expansion of our very own, influential foodways. At the Chutney Kitchen and then the original French Laundry, then up in her Mendocino Apple Farm and now in her book Six California Kitchens: A Collection of Recipes, Stories and Cooking Lessons from a Pioneer of California Cuisine – published just weeks after her passing at 90, she was a quiet powerhouse of goodness. 
This week we speak with her daughter, Karen Bates, with whom she worked and taught, and her grandson, chef Perry Hoffman, who cooked in Healdsburg at SHED and now is back with family cooking at the Boonville Hotel. 
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