Sponsored
![Pictured [L-R]: David Melton, Ethan Conrad, Lindsay Goulding and Carl Fessenden](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/canon_0008.jpg?1698935244)
Porter Scott
SAME TRUSTED EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE IN A NEW LOCATION
Established in 1976, Porter Scott Attorneys has moved after 40 years on University Avenue. The firm’s focus on civil litigation sets it apart from other firms.
![](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/comstocks_talks_10-21-23.png?1698247351)
New Depths: Sub Sea Systems is Making Our Oceans Accessible for All
PODCAST EPISODE: Father and daughter Jim Mayfield and Hannah de Bie of Sub Sea Systems discuss marine tourism, VR integration, Saudi Arabia’s entertainment megaproject Qiddiya, the importance of ocean exploration and working with family.
![Robyn Rodriguez, a longtime Asian American Studies professor at UC Davis, decided to leave academia to start a farm and “healing space” with her husband Josh Vang and son Zee. (Photos by Robin Douglas)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/1023_reimaginationfarm_robindouglas_lead.png?1697061050)
Rest and Reset at the Reimagination Farm
Former UC Davis professor Robyn Rodriguez starts a sanctuary space dedicated to healing
It’s harvest time at the Reimagination Farm in Lake County,
California. As autumn turns the air crisp and the leaves begin to
change, former UC Davis Asian American Studies professor Robyn
Rodriguez surveys the land in front of her and reflects on the
rhythms of nature. “Even the earth follows cycles of rest,” she
muses. “That’s how we regenerate.”
![Bishop's Pumpkin Farm moves about 1.5 million pounds of pumpkin a year, with an average pumpkin weighing 10 to 15 pounds. Wayne Bishop estimates 60 percent of their pumpkins are picked in the field by visitors, with the other 40 percent picked by farm staff. (Photos by Steve Martarano)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/2-september_09_2023bishops_pumpkin_farm-2_1.png?1696881317)
Family Fun at Bishop’s Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland
Three generations have run the popular attraction for more than 50 years
Wayne Bishop of Bishop’s Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland claims the farm is the largest pick-your-own pumpkin patch in the world. It remains a true family-run business, with Wayne, his wife Ann, his sons Lee and Austin, and his daughter-in-law Courtney leading the farm his parents started more than 50 years ago.
![Denene, Ralph and Andrew Lucchetti grow peaches and other fruit on the 1860s-era ranch that Ralph’s parents bought in 1945. (Photos by Terence Duffy)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/_mg_8965.png?1696439756)
A Piece of the Pie
Family business spotlight: The Fruit Bowl has been providing peaches and more to Stockton for 76 years
Over the course of summer and the first weeks of fall, over 60 varieties of peaches and nectarines pass through The Fruit Bowl, a 76-year-old produce stand on the rural outskirts of Stockton.
![It's all hands on deck at Sub Sea Systems. Jim Mayfield, right, is president and CEO, alongside wife Melissa, daughter Hannah de Bie, and sons Kyle, left, and Keenan Mayfield. (Photos by Terence Duffy)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/_mg_996500001.png?1696439127)
Submersibles That Run Deep
Family business spotlight: World leader in marine tourism is buoyed by family values
The Mayfield siblings grew up in the charmed nautical world of their father’s imagination. At the Sub Sea Systems workshop in Diamond Springs, power tools whir as two generations work side by side to build custom submersibles that resemble something out of a Jules Verne novel.
![Jim Relles, 75-year-old owner of Relles Florist, stands behind buckets of price placards at the rear of the shop. (Photo by Joe Perfecto)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/lead_jimrelles.png?1695351028)
Still At It
Older adults are making up increasing shares of the workforce
Dan Dillon had been retired about two weeks from the Elk Grove
Unified School District when he realized he needed something to
do. “Everybody’s different,” says Dillon, 70. “Like my brother,
he’s retired. And he goes kayaking, fly fishing and windsurfing.
And he’s always going to Hawaii, Tahoe, Baja California. He keeps
so busy. I was never that person.”
![Delcy Steffy, right, and daughter Elinor run Good Things to Eat in Curtis Park, one of many Capital Region businesses branded around the word “good.” (Photo by Joe Perfecto)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/_n0a4358_0.png?1695748310)
Is It All Good?
Why is ‘good’ such a popular word among brands in the Capital Region and beyond?
Feeling good lately? Does the country, the world, seem good? With
a divided electorate, a multiply indicted candidate, the dregs of
a pandemic swirling through our psyches, and the hottest summer
on record, sometimes it’s hard to find the good.
![When driving was put on hold at Burning Man due to muddy conditions, many attendees explored the outdoor art exhibits on foot. (Photos by Ed Fletcher)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/mudwalk_ef_bm2023.png?1694707245)
Mud, Music and the Man
A Sacramento Burner shares thoughts on the community spirit of this year’s rainy Burning Man
While reporters and commentators struggled to understand why
73,000 would choose to isolate — and unintentionally strand —
themselves in the desert, Burners lived out the experiment Black
Rock City was built for.
![One of the purchases by Wendy and Leif Lowery about two years ago was the U.S. Post Office, considered to be the oldest building in Dutch Flat, dating to the early 1850s. (Photos by Steve Martarano)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/lead_june_22_2023dutch_flat-7_f_1.png?1694644999)
Dutch Flat Is a Trip Into California’s Gold Rush
Visitors find historic charm in the mountain community of just 133 residents
The well-preserved, semi-ghost Placer County town of Dutch Flat, an hour drive east of Sacramento in the Sierra Nevada foothills, has earned the description of being “a step back in time,” as local hotelier Leif Lowery described it.