Fifth-generation farmer Charley Mathews is continuing a family a legacy that began in the 1850s. Their first rice fields were planted in the 1940s and are still going strong in Yuba County.
Charley is a graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He and his wife Hillary have two sons, Parker and Adam.
"I have been thinking about a blog topic for some time now. It stems from an article I saw on my Yahoo homepage about people’s income scale. The article had a great tagline and those always sucker me in so I clicked it. The report asked where people were on the income scale for example. If you make under $20k a year you are classified as poor, or if you make over a million dollars a year you are wealthy..." Read Sean's Blog
This featured recipe comes from Antonio Villagomez, Head Chef and Owner of Cilantros Restaurant in Yuba City.
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"... It’s finally starting to feel like the dog days of summer out here. The temperature is probably going to be around 100 degrees for several days in a row, and the rice is responding well. We finished up our herbicide applications, and we put some more fertilizer on, and the rice is appreciating the extra nitrogen with all this heat..."
