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Guru Ram Das Orchards – Profile

Didar Singh Khalsa and two partners bought the farm in 1981. During the week Didar worked washing windows and running restaurants in the Sacramento area and would tend the farm on Saturdays. After 9 years of this schedule he finally bought out the other owners…

Lucero Organic Farm – Profile

Ben was raised in Watsonville where he grew up farming. He started his first organic farm in the 1960s and although he found it difficult to make a living he kept at it. When the farmers market movement finally took hold 20 years later he began to turn a profit for the first time…

Riverdog Farm – Profile

Tim and Trini started farming two acres in Rutherford, CA in 1990. Gradually, after much trial and error, the farm has evolved into a very diverse, year-round farm that relies on a combination of wholesale, retail, farmers markets, and a 1,000-member Community Supported Agriculture program. They employ 50 year-round employees…

McEvoy Olive Oil – Profile

After Nan McEvoy fell in love with a former dairy ranch in the rolling hills outside Petaluma, she learned that the property, which was zoned for agriculture, must have an agricultural purpose. Fond of Tuscany and its chief product, olive oil, she investigated the possibility of converting the dairy into an olive farm and oil mill…

Round Pond Olive Oil – Profile

In the early 1980s Bob and Jan MacDonnell moved from an urban part of the Bay Area and bought their first parcel of land that would one day become Round Pond Estate. The second generation of MacDonnell are now working the farm…

Terra Firma Farm – Profile

Paul Holmes started the farm. Paul Underhill started working with him 15 years ago, and eventually became part owner. They began on one parcel of land. By poking around and by word of mouth, they found abandoned or forgotten orchards. The farm eventually expanded to its current size…

Star Route Farms – Profile

Warren Weber moved out from Berkeley in the early seventies, after receiving his PhD. The job market was bad, so he thought he would try farming. They learned by doing it…

From the Field – Brookside Farm 1st Annual Harvest Party

The farm was originally a nut tree orchard. The Toms sold almonds and walnuts to local bakeries (for 25 cents a pound!) Gradually the orchard gave way to…

Willis Farm – Profile

Paul Willis still lives on the farm where he grew up, in Thornton, IA about 100 miles north of Des Moines. Paul’s passions have always included animals and taking care of the land. It is this passion that led him…

Laguna Farm – Profile

Scott’s grandfather bought the farm in the 1960s and raised cattle and Arabian studs here until his death in 1994.  Scott visited the farm often as a boy and a eventually moved to the farm to attend college in 1981.  He began farming in 1984 and helped nurture the fledgling organic movement…