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 a Farm Tour!
Several times a year PCFMA, in partnership with Fresh Approach, 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 - July 19, 2009
This tour visited three beautiful local farms around Watsonville. Starting with Rodriguez Ranch's strawberry fields, the tour continued to Nuņez's organic vegetable farm. Our farmers' market chefs were waiting there for us with a spectacular lunch using just-picked local produce. After filling our bellies, we continued on to a peach and nectarine orchard for a sweet dessert before heading back to San Jose.
Pescadero and Half Moon Bay Farm Tour - August 16, 2009
We traveled together to farms in Pescadero and Half Moon Bay. Stopping first at Iacopi Farms to see what's in season, we continued to Fifth Crow farms to check out the mobile chicken house and fields of organic strawberries and vegetables. Our farmers' market chefs were on hand there to prepare a delicious seasonal lunch with produce from Fifth Crow and other local farms before we moved on to an inside look at Challenge Orchids' award-winning flowers.
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.
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.
