Farm Tours

Want to know where your food comes from? Curious about what it takes to get your favorite fruits and vegetables to market? Interested in seeing some of our state's most beautiful and verdant agricultural areas? Then join one of the PCFMA Farm Tours!.

Several times a year PCFMA organizes tours of local farms for farmers' market shoppers. Each tour includes visits to two to four farms as well as lunch, prepared by PCFMA's Cookin' the Market chefs using fresh produce from the farms visited that day. Check out the links to upcoming tours and the pictures from past tours to learn more!

Watsonville Farm Tour

Come along for a trip to three beautiful local farms around Watsonville. We will visit Rodriguez Ranch’s strawberry fields, then tour Nuñez’s organic vegetable farm. Our farmers’ market chefs will be waiting for us with a spectacular lunch using just-picked local produce. After filling our bellies, we will continue on to a peach and nectarine orchard for a sweet dessert before heading back to San Jose, returning by 4:00.

The tour leaves from Downtown San Jose at 9:00am on Sunday, July 19th.

Tickets are $15 for children and $30 for adults. You can purchase tickets at Brown Paper Tickets.

Pescadero and Half Moon Bay Farm Tour

We will travel together to farms in Pescadero and Half Moon Bay. Stopping by Iacopi Farms to see what’s in season, we will continue to Fifth Crow farms to check out the mobile chicken house and fields of organic strawberries and vegetables. Our farmers’ market chefs will be on hand to prepare a delicious seasonal lunch with produce from Fifth Crow and other local farms before we move on to an inside look at Challenge Orchids’ award-winning flowers.

The tour will leave from the South San Francisco BART Station at 9:00am on Sunday, August 16th. We’ll be back in South San Francisco by 4:00pm with plenty of stories and photos to share!

Tickets are $15 for children and $30 for adults. You can purchase tickets at Brown Paper Tickets.

Brentwood by Bike Farm Tour - June 21, 2009

The Brentwood by Bike Farm Tour visited three Brentwood farms including Simoni and Massoni's corn farm, Frog Hollow Farms and Shelly's Garden. In addition, Olivos do Oro joined the group during the lunch for a special presentation of their olive oils. A great group of over 25 riders rode the 15-miles round trip through some of Brentwood's most abundant agricultural lands.

Click here for pictures and more information from the tour.

Pleasanton Farm Tour - May 17, 2009

Leaving from Downtown Pleasanton,the tour visited Olivina, a local olive oil producer, and Terra Bella, a family farm growing vegetables on the grounds of an old Hearst family hunting lodge. Our farmers' market chefs prepares lunch for the 30 participants at Terra Bella, using produce from the farm.