Oliveto Community » County Line Harvest http://www.oliveto.com/ourcommunity News from our farmers, ranchers, and kitchen... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 County Line Harvest – Profile http://www.oliveto.com/ourcommunity/farmers/county-line-produce-profile http://www.oliveto.com/ourcommunity/farmers/county-line-produce-profile#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:46:54 +0000 Catherine Meng http://www.oliveto.com/ourcommunity/?p=551

After spending time in the UC Santa Cruz Agroecology program, apprenticing at Fairview Gardens in Santa Barbara, and on a kibbutz in Israel, David Retsky found his own plot to tend in Marin County. The original farm property sat on the line between Marin & Sonoma Counties after which the farm is named...

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Established 2000

Owners

David Retsky & Francesca Rohr

After spending time in the UC Santa Cruz Agroecology program, apprenticing at Fairview Gardens in Santa Barbara, and on a kibbutz in Israel, David Retsky found his own plot to tend in Marin County.  The original  farm property sat on the line between Marin & Sonoma Counties after which the farm is named.  County Line Harvest has been growing vegetables since 2000.

Chef Canales says that County Line produces “some of the most sincere chicories”.

Crops

Lettuces, specialty salad greens, baby spinach, chicory mixes, radishes, turnip mixes, carrots, cippolini onions, baby leeks, fennel, mixed baby summer squash, strawberries, squash blossoms, basils, parsley and sage

Farmers’ Markets

Tuesday – SF Ferry Building
Wednesday – Peteluma
Thursday – Civic Center/San Rafael
Saturday – Grand Lake/Oakland, Berkeley/Downtown, Petaluma
Sunday – Civic Center/San Rafael

Location

6 acres in Sonoma and 26 acres in Marin

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