Hollyhill Hummingbird Farm In Cupertino Offers Break From Silicon Valley Life

CUPERTINO -- Up in the hills above Silicon Valley, past the point where sewer lines give way to septic systems and city lights no longer wash out a starry sky, Dave West is living the simple life. There, next to the in-law unit where the former aerospace consultant lives on his parents' 10-acre homestead, a trail has been carved out of a steep hillside. It winds past planter boxes sprouting with winter crops, a chicken coop and a hopyard, fruit trees and mulch piles until it reaches a plateau, w...