MEET NORTH FORK GARDEN SOCIETY
Tekla & Denny
North Fork Garden Society grew out of the vision of two people, myself, Tekla Broz and my husband Denny Lopiano. We have lived in the small rural town of Covelo, in Mendocino County, for over 30 years. I taught at the elementary school, and Denny was the chef/owner of the North Fork Café, a much-loved fine dining restaurant that was a social center for our town for 26 years. An unfortunate fire destroyed our restaurant last year, but we are putting our attention on the future, and part of that future is growing quality cannabis. We are long-time legacy farmers, growing small amounts of cannabis medicine for over 40 years. I grew up in San Francisco, and as a teenager in the Sixties, was part of the culture of love and peace that spawned a new awareness of the value of the environment, organic food and products, love and tolerance of all humans, freedom of self- expression and personal creativity. Denny grew up in upstate New York, amidst farms and rural cultivation and moved to California in the Seventies. He has been a talented chef for all these years, and brings his good sense of taste and smell to our creation of organic medicine. We live in the middle of the small rural mountain town of Covelo, in beautiful Round Valley, in Mendocino County, California, beside and amidst Round Valley Native American Reservation residents and a varied vibrant community of isolationists, cowboys, elders and youth. We live on one acre, and our farm is in our backyard. Our garden has been organic for the entire time we have lived here, over 30 years. Our goal is to produce quality over quantity, to touch every plant, to grow beautiful flower that makes people happy.
