Peace and Plenty in the News
![Peace and Plenty ad for the West Business Development Center](http://peaceplentyfarm.com/cdn/shop/articles/Screen_Shot_2019-05-08_at_12.58.57_PM_{width}x.png?v=1557345800)
We were honored to be chosen by the West Business Development Center to highlight for National Small Business Week!
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![FARMING SUNLIGHT AT THE FOOT OF MT. KONOCTI: PEACE AND PLENTY SAFFRON FARM](http://peaceplentyfarm.com/cdn/shop/articles/Screen_Shot_2019-04-25_at_8.58.03_PM_{width}x.png?v=1556251158)
“We do,” Melinda replies. “Then we sit at the table surrounded by the flowers, picking out the stigmas, which end up being the saffron.” She pauses. “Bees come and swarm around me, burrowing through the blossoms for the pollen. It’s beautiful to watch.”
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![Peace and Plenty Farm brings saffron growing to Lake County](http://peaceplentyfarm.com/cdn/shop/articles/Screen_Shot_2019-04-08_at_12.01.48_PM_{width}x.png?v=1554750184)
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Lake County has long been known for pears, winegrapes and walnuts, but it may soon be known for another unique and ancient commodity – saffron.
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![Camille Becerra's Blissful Routine includes Peace and Plenty Farm's Saffron: Domino Magazine](http://peaceplentyfarm.com/cdn/shop/articles/Screen_Shot_2019-03-25_at_1.36.09_PM_01c4f508-bf40-4152-8d55-feec11322079_{width}x.png?v=1553546261)
When she’s in need of a brain boost, Becerra drinks a small glass of what she calls “savory water”—saffron threads soaked overnight in water. . . Becerra likes the kind grown in Israel or California, especially from the farm Peace and Plenty.
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![Peace and Plenty Farm in SF Chronicle](http://peaceplentyfarm.com/cdn/shop/articles/Screen_Shot_2019-02-25_at_6.03.17_PM_{width}x.png?v=1551146622)
In January, Price and her husband Simon Avery began selling their first big harvest of the organic saffron they first planted in 2017 at their Peace and Plenty Farm in Kelseyville (Lake County). A Mediterranean specialty, saffron is one of the world’s most expensive spices because each brick-red thread must be picked from a single purple flower. The couple harvested 58,000 flowers by hand, carefully removed the threads and then dried and cured them.
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