As a second-generation Napa Valley native, I’ve always heard the name “Andy Beckstoffer.” He’s is a cultural icon in Napa Valley, known broadly for his pione...

This article was written by Esther Mobley, and published in the San Francisco Chronicle on May 11, 2020. Original post here. The past few years have been kin...

Save the Family Farms (STFF) advocates for a level playing field for all Napa Valley wineries (big, small, and micro) to co-exist and have the ability to per...

We are very grateful for the customers and friends that are checking in on us during these scary times. Our Save the Family Farms members have helped and sup...

Rebecca Sciandri Griffin and Elise Nerlove Rutchick sit down with Ray Fister, host of Life Between the Vines to chat wine, multi-generational family farms an...

My love for viticulture and Enology (grape growing and winemaking) started at a young age before my family had our own vineyard. I have fond memories of my d...

The creation of a Napa County policy that will allow limited wine tastings and Direct to Consumer sales on small family vineyards will secure Napa Valley’s c...

This article was written and published by The Calistoga Tribune on December 6, 2019. By Pat Hampton, Tribune Publisher Save the Family Farms Napa Valley is n...

NAPA VALLEY, Calif. - Some small family-owned vineyards are banding together, hoping to add an amendment to Napa County's restrictions

This article was written and published by The San Francisco Chronicle. One group, Save the Family Farms, says the county’s tasting-room laws make it impossib...

Do you remember when you were young and had made something you were sure would make it onto your family fridge? That hope, dream, and determination to see th...

This article first appeared in The Vintner Project on September 10, 2019. Once the lifeblood of Napa County, small family farms are being pushed out of busin...

We are the solution the county and the public have been looking for. We want to maintain the unique quality of Napa true Agriculture while preventing impact...

“The Napa Valley Tourism Improvement District (NVTID) was designed to provide specific benefits directly to payers by increasing room night sales. Valley-wid...

Leadership can be defined as aligning your actions, words and behaviors to your motivation. When you apply motivation alignment to leadership it can deliver ...

Small family farms are the true legacy of Napa because they keep our founding traditions alive. Napa Valley is originally a community of families from all d...

Having farmed in the Napa Valley for the past 36 years, I have seen many changes during that time. Some good, some bad. But what I haven’t seen is an opportu...

I can remember in 1985 driving from Alameda where I then lived to visit Inglenook Winery in Rutherford. Inglenook was in those days a warm, inviting place to...

For more than 20 years, Walt Disney dreamed up his Disneyland Theme Park. On July 17, 1955, his dream became a reality after just one year of construction. D...

In 1989 our Napa political leaders known as the Board of Supervisors (BOS) put into place a document that dictates what we, the vineyard and winery owners,...