Where is jason mrazs avocado farm

I learned I needed to diversify. What is no one else growing that no one else can provide? We put our feelers out there, and Scott came to us with this idea of coffee after hearing a lecture by Jay Ruskey of Good Land Organics. He said, if you can grow avocados, you can grow coffee. Rebecca O'Keeffe. Live your best life. One of the most important songs of my youth was "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz. View this post on Instagram. Taoiseach addresses possibility of Christmas lockdown.

But nature has its own version of progress and it takes a lot of time. So I've learned a lot through farming about how to manage myself and my other creative projects that I do indoors. I also learned that there there's seasons for everything.

In the winter, it's really a season of rest, let things heal, maybe even let the planet rest or let the farmer dream a little bit. In the spring, throw out your feed, throw out your ideas, do your trials and that's kind of, for me, the writing and creativity part. Like, let's, come up with ideas. By summertime, you can see which ones are really flourishing, so let's work on those, let's bring those to fruition. Let's even harvest them at the end of summer and then take them to market in the fall.

Then follow that up with a period of rest. Do not work full time, all the time, but kind of see the seasons of creativity, nourishing those ideas and then harvesting those ideas and then take them to market.

And then rest and repeat. You consider farming among your creative projects, as opposed to other than a creative project? Farming is also a bit of landscaping and the way we farm, too, we're perennial trees. We're planting trees to outlive us and in that you're essentially designing a landscape or even a botanical garden. As much biodiversity as we have here, it feels more like a botanical garden than it does a traditional farm or fruit orchard.

And that is such a beautiful, creative joy, to imagine the different colored flowers and where you want certain fruits to grow or sometimes just letting the rays of the sun dictate where certain things are going to be planted. It's definitely a creative process because you have to work in harmony with nature. We're coming up on a year now that you have not been touring, performing for groups.

What will you do differently now that you've spent a year essentially just on the farm? I really don't know yet. I do know in the last year I've finally gotten comfortable with the idea of broadcasting from home, reducing my need to move all of my gear from city to city. Craft beer breweries. Micro distilleries. Mead breweries. Kombucha huts. Farm stands, cheese stands, creameries, apiaries bee farms.

Maybe one day Mraz will bring musician friends for a Farmchella. The hope is that as Oceanside beaches and restaurants thrive, the farm country that delivers fresh food to their kitchens will do the same.

Who knows. A jovial toe dip into the unknown future of local farmers. The eventual hope is that as Oceanside beaches and restaurants thrive the scene is booming , the farm country that delivers fresh food to their kitchens will do the same.

That Oceanside, and San Diego, will see as much value in crops as they do condos. On the drive up to Mraz Family Farms , there are so many avocado trees, waxy green herds of them. Looks like someone hit pause on a Morgan Freeman documentary film about their migration.

The heat is venting an ancient, mean grudge. There's no Big! The event is lined by tents, and more avocado trees, where local food people worship shade and share what they made. Trailblazing bistro and pork whisperers The Flying Pig is there with trucker hats and, well, pork.

Jan DeLyser shows me how to properly cut an avocado, and gives me a temporary avocado tattoo. Golden Coast is serving tasters of their craft mead, the oldest alcohol in the world. He and I spoke about why food, why farming, why Oceanside, why coffee. A lot of whys. And a couple whats. I guess it was probably somewhere between and I saw the importance of healthy eating so that I could sustain myself on tour, not come home depleted and sick.

I discovered the good food movement, and started to meet people into vegan, organic, slow food, different types of food narrative.

And one of those narratives was farm-to-table and "eat your own zip code. I realized I live in an ag area.