Located on three properties totaling 60 acres near Watsonville in Central California, Suncrest Nursery is a wholesale operation that supplies independent garden stores throughout the state. Specializing in California natives and other drought-tolerant and Mediterranean plants, they grow over 3,000 varieties and over two million plants a year. The General Manager at Suncrest Nursery is […]
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FULL BELLY FARM
Full Belly Farm is a certified organic farm that produces vegetables, herbs, nuts, flowers, and fruits in California’s beautiful Capay Valley. Since 1985, partners Andrew Brait, Judith Redmond, Paul Muller, and Dru Rivers have been producing wholesale and retail products for restaurants, farmers markets and their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members. In addition to growing […]
TABLE TOP FARM
In 2010 Arron Wilder founded Table Top Farm, a series of small, organically certified vegetable plots located on the Point Reyes Mesa and the historic Black Mountain Ranch in West Marin County. Arron leases a total of 11.5 acres on four separate parcels: three-quarters of an acre on Cypress Road, another three-quarters of an acre […]
MCGRATH FAMILY FARMS
In the 1860s, Phil McGrath’s great-grandfather emigrated from Ireland to California, where he met his wife, also an Irish émigré. They farmed first in the hills of Berkeley before moving to the Oxnard area, completing a ranch house in 1879 and eventually amassing 1,250 acres. The next generation accumulated 5,000 acres, but split the acreage […]
JSM ORGANIC FARMS
Javier Sanchez Medina (JSM) Organic Farms in Monterey County is owned and operated by proprietor Javier Zamora who named the farm after his mother. Javier’s father was a farmer, and Javier started farming in Mexico at eleven years old. Javier came to the United States in his twenties, eventually travelling to the Central Coast and […]
FORTUNATE FARM
Agriculture and land management has always been an important part of Gowan Batist’s life. She is a Master Gardener, and studied Sustainable Agriculture through Oregon State University’s Extension Service. After graduating, she moved to Mendocino County to manage the farm-to-school program and the Noyo Food Forest. In 2013, Gowan Batist and her family founded Fortunate […]