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PHOTOS: REDWOOD HILL FARM brand spotlight The Bice Family (from left): Shelley Mills, David Bice, Jennifer Bice, Scott Bice, Sharon Bice Redwood Hill Farm Led by one of the pioneers of American artisanal goat cheese in the U.S., this Sonoma County goat dairy and creamery began with one product and now sells more than 20 items in nearly 2,000 retail stores nationwide. BY DEBORAH MOSS W hen Jennifer Lynn Bice's parents, Cynthia and Kenneth, moved their family from Los Angeles to Northern California in the early 1960s, 10-year-old Bice traded urban childhood pleasures such as sidewalk roller-skating for the joys and rigors of farm living. Bice's parents wanted to get back to the land, so they purchased an abandoned apple orchard in Sonoma County, where they built a house, planted a garden and raised ducks, chickens, rabbits, goats, pigs and cows. JULY/AUGUST 2013 137