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03/14/2026

🌱 spring

01/20/2026

this is where it’s at.

Leadership matters. Everyday.

11/09/2025

end of summer garden.

09/30/2022

That one time in Antibes...
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06/07/2021

it's all changing... again.

Sacramento — The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board on June 3 readopted Cal/OSHA’s revised COVID-19 prevention emergency temporary standards. Last year, the Board adopted health and safety standards to protect workers from COVID-19. The standards did not consider vaccinations and req...

03/20/2021

Here’s something helpful for employers and employees to know:

As part of the recent federal economic stimulus act, FFCRA has been extended through September as a tax-refundable option for employers.

FFCRA is federally funded paid leave for people who have been impacted by COVID-19 either because they’ve gotten sick, they’ve been put in quarantine or isolation, or they need to care for a close family member or their child, possibly because of school closure and lack of childcare.

There are important differences in this newest round of FFCRA.

First, employers can now offer their employees FFCRA emergency sick pay for vaccine symptoms, which helps encourage employees to get vaccinated.

Second, employees can now receive FFCRA emergency sick pay to take time off without a specific advisement from a doctor, to fulfill their employer’s request that they get tested if the employee has potentially been exposed or has flu symptoms which might (or might not) be COVID-19.

Third and perhaps most importantly, all employees start over again on April 1, 2021 with a zero used balance for FFCRA, meeting that they’re eligible once again for a full 80 hours of emergency sick pay for full time employees (or a prorated amount for part time employees).

And it is also significant that the family medical leave portion of FFCRA has been expanded to 14 weeks paid leave.

Regulations are still being updated online and these changes do not take effect until April 1, 2021. But, this is a federal law and it applies nationwide. And the law will be in effect through September 2021.

Link in comments to the current version of the law, in place through the end of March 2021.

03/11/2021

what did you learn today?

You suspect it needs an apostrophe, and you're right. But where it should it go? Is it year's or years' experience? Find out here.

01/20/2021

Anderson Valley Health Clinic is now offering Agriculture Company + Winery COIVD-19 Vaccinations

Please contact Leah Collins directly to learn more by email [email protected] or by phone 707-895-3477 ext. 261.

01/20/2021

California employers need to know and implement these emergency standards in effect now.

In addition to consideration of an employer’s good faith effort to comply before issuing a citation, for the first two months the rules are in effect (i.e., through February 1, 2021), Cal/OSHA will cite but not assess monetary penalties for violations of the ETS that would not have been conside.....

01/07/2021

Now is a good time to complete this free online training to meet State of California Anti-harassment education standards for employees and supervisors. You can even print out a certificate of completion.

State of California