Princess, a heritage Berkshire sow, and her piglets, born yesterday/Photo: James Wilson

Princess, a heritage Berkshire sow, gave birth to four piglets at 9 am yesterday morning at Tilden Little Farm. Mother and piglets are all doing fine. Ilana Peterson at the Tilden Nature Area reports that Welsh Black Mountain Sheep lambs are expected next month. It’s clearly spring in Tilden.

Lance Knobel (Berkeleyside co-founder) has been a journalist for nearly 40 years. Much of his career was in business journalism. He was editor-in-chief of both Management Today, the leading business magazine...