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Fresh From Our Farmers: Middleton Farm

Nancy Skall of Middleton Farm  grows what may be the best asparagus I’ve ever tasted. Stalks range from about the diameter of a chopstick to that of your big thumb and shoppers in the know reach for the fattest ones. The thinnest stalks are not, as many restaurant menus [...]

By | May 2nd, 2013|2 Comments

Fresh From Our Farmers: Sam Kim’s Mushrooms

Sam Kim of Bohemian Well Being Farm is a familiar face to farmers market shoppers throughout Sonoma County. At the peak of the season, when all our markets are in full swing, you’ll find him at several each week with his cultivated and wild mushrooms, some not much bigger [...]

By | May 2nd, 2013|0 Comments

Order Your Easter Lamb Now

If you want to serve lamb on Easter and want it to be the best quality you can find, you should place an order sooner rather than later. Williams Ranches, based in Sebastopol, will be taking orders through Sunday, including at the Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market [...]

By | March 22nd, 2013|0 Comments

Fresh From Our Farmers: Parsons Homegrown Tomatoes

Parsons Homegrown of Fulton fills a very specific niche, fresh local tomatoes from January through July or August. Kelley Parsons established her operation in 1994 and it is thriving today. This year, she is growing three varieties, Favorita, a cherry tomato; Geronimo, a red beefsteak, and Yellow Boy, a yellow [...]

By | March 1st, 2013|0 Comments

Fresh From Our Farmers: Santa Rosa Original Market This SUNDAY

The Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market will take place this Sunday, not Saturday. The change is for this week only. This shift is necessary because of a previously scheduled event at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. Events at the Center are scheduled many months in advance and all [...]

By | January 18th, 2013|2 Comments

Fresh From Our Farmers: Larry Tristano’s Triple T Ranch & Farm

Triple T Ranch and Farm has been a familiar presence at Santa Rosa and Marin farmers markets since the mid 1990s but that is not how it got its start. Larry  Tristano began selling zucchini to local Lucky Markets in 1983, when the fecund summer squash was his primary crop. [...]

By | December 12th, 2012|0 Comments

Fresh From Our Farmers: Chestnuts for Thanksgiving

TAKE NOTE: CHESTNUTS, ALONG WITH CHANTERELLES AND QUINCE, WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE SANTA ROSA ORIGINAL CERTIFIED FARMERS MARKET, THIS WEDNESDAY FROM 8:30 A.M. TO NOON.  “The chestnuts were a little late this year,” Jim McCrumb of Sonoma Coast Organic Produce says, explaining that the burs--those nearly-impossible-to-crack cupules, each of [...]

By | November 18th, 2012|0 Comments

Fresh From Our Farmers: Schedule Change This Week for Santa Rosa Original Farmers Market

When the Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market moved to the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts (50 Mark West Springs Rd.), it was with the understanding that the space, including the area where the market takes place, had been reserved for special events that would require, in some instances, [...]

By | November 2nd, 2012|0 Comments

Fresh From Our Farmers: Ma & Pa’s Garden

Ma and Pa’s Garden of Sebastopol has been a fixture at local farmers markets for more than two decades. Cliff Silva, with his big smile and impish eyes, is the face of the farm, as he’s the one who hauls the harvest to market and sings the praises of his [...]

By | October 26th, 2012|0 Comments

Fresh From Our Farmers: Sonoma’s The Patch

For years, The Patch has been the first local farm with tomatoes. Lazaro Calderon’s booths at local farmers markets appear sometime in April, when he has some of the best-tasting Nantes carrots around, and the race is on. By mid-May, customers are asking when he expects to have the first [...]

By | October 26th, 2012|0 Comments