Tag Archive for 'profile' at Oliveto Community

Tag Archive for 'profile'

Terra Sonoma Distribution – Profile

February 24th, 2009 by Catherine Meng

Established 1994
Owners
Susan Stover & Tony Sadoti (see also Animalitos Farm)
Terra Sonoma is a distributor selling Sonoma County grown produce to restaurants and markets in the Bay Area. The business began in the early 1980s. Stover and Sadoti have run it since 1994.
Seasons
March through January.
Challenges
Getting all the produce gathered and shipped to many different locations in [...]

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Animalitos Farm – Profile

February 24th, 2009 by Catherine Meng

Established 1990
Owners
Susan Stover & Tony Sadoti (see also Terra Sonoma Distribution)
The farm started 20 years ago growing intensely planted specialty vegetable crops on three acres. They switched to fruit trees (350) in 2002 to try a different agricultural path. Susan says, “it’s nice to work with the Oliveto staff because they are appreciative of what [...]

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County Line Harvest – Profile

February 20th, 2009 by Catherine Meng

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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Dickson Napa Ranch – Profile

February 19th, 2009 by Catherine Meng

Lillian Dickson inherited the ranch from her mother. The land had once belonged to Lillian’s grandfather, Manuel Candido Almado. He had purchased the property in the 1940s after his own dairy ranch had to be sold for the building of the Napa County Airport….

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Blossom Bluff Orchards – Profile

February 10th, 2009 by Catherine Meng

reat-grandparents Daniel and Babette Lichti originally purchased thirty acres of the farm in 1931 where they lived and raised their eight children. Their son Herb took over the farm in the 1940s. Herb bought an adjacent piece of property and with wife Elise they raised their three children and tended the farm. In 1980, Fran and Ted moved into their grandparents old farmhouse with their two children…

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Acme Bread – Profile

February 8th, 2009 by Bob Klein

Sullivan became interested in baking bread 25 years ago as a busboy at Berkeley’s Chez Panisse restaurant where he worked while attending the University of California at Berkeley. He started baking bread as a serious hobby after being inspired by Elizabeth David’s cookbook “English Bread and Yeast Cookery”…

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Bellwether Farms – Profile

February 8th, 2009 by Bob Klein

In her mid-fifties, Cindy Callahan left a career in nursing to begin tending sheep and raising lambs initially used for brush and grass control. Following the suggestion of a friend to milk the sheep turned her on to the potential of running a sheep dairy farm…

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Fresca Italia – Profile

February 8th, 2009 by Bob Klein

Michele moved to the U.S. in 1998. He saw an opportunity in the Bay Area market for the cheeses he had grown up with in Italy. Fresca Italia is currently a four person company who all have a passion for great cheese…

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Acquerello Rice – Profile

February 8th, 2009 by Bob Klein

Originally purchased in 1934, the Tenuta Columbara farm has been in the Rondolino family for three generations. Many of the structures still in use were built in the 16th century…

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Giusto’s Vita-Grain – Profile

February 8th, 2009 by Bob Klein

Golden Crescent Health Foods was founded in 1940 by Matthew and Amelia Giusto. It was the very first health food store in California. What began as a small bakery and retail health food business eventually grew to a successful multi-faceted operation with milling, baking, packaging and warehouse facilities…

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