by Adam Parks | Apr 11, 2014 | Blog
I was sitting on the couch a couple weeks ago on a Saturday night. Laura and I were watching a show and having a couple drinks. A commercial came on for the upcoming James Taylor concert in Concord on June 3rd and I launched the iPad. After about 20 minutes of looking...
by Adam Parks | Mar 26, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
I don’t like crowds. Let me be more specific, I don’t like to be jammed shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of people. It’s a personal space issue for me and probably a character flaw, but I will take the stairs or wait for the next one if an elevator is full. I will...
by Adam Parks | Mar 20, 2014 | Blog
We had our first ever Victorian Farmstead Staff Meeting on Monday. I know that doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it was kind of momentous for me. I have sat in hundreds of staff meetings over the years. I have been staff and led staff. They have been held in...
by Adam Parks | Mar 13, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
I have spent a lot of time contemplating the concept of tenure lately. It is a concept so foreign to me and recently I have had to face it and all it’s ugliness with my son and wife. This ridiculous notion is that after you have survived a position for a set period of...
by Adam Parks | Feb 26, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
My name is Adam Parks and I own Victorian Farmstead Meat Company in Sebastopol. The recently announced Rancho Feeding Corp. beef recall has had, and will continue to have, a profound effect on my business and the business of dozens of local ranchers and meat...
by Adam Parks | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
This plea, coming on the heels of last week’s early April Fools post, needs to be taken very seriously. I’m asking for your help on behalf of a high school class mate. Alex Porrata was a few years behind me in school. I don’t really remember her well...