Each week and each market depends on a team of individuals, some of them paid employees and some of them volunteers, working together to make the farmers market happen.
The Bay Areaâs intensive care unit capacity this week shrank to 17.8% on Thursday â a testament to the pandemicâs severity and, for the North Bayâs wine country, one more tick of the clock closer to a comprehensive shutdown.
The threat of such a shutdown has loomed large over much of the Bay Area since Gov. Gavin Newsom on Dec. 3 announced regions of the state with less than 15% capacity left in intensive care units would have to regress even further in their reopenings. Three regions, including the Greater Sacramento Area, have already entered the shutdowns, and six Bay Area counties â San Francisco, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Marin Alameda and Sonoma, which joined the cohort late Thursday â have voluntarily implemented the more stringent regulations, which revert restaurants to take-out service only, limit retail store capacity and close wines, bars and breweries altogether.