New Farmers Market and a special week

Doing two farmers markets a week wasn’t enough for us so we have added a third one and it’s the Saturday Davis Farmers Market which we have been hoping to get into.

We are super excited to add the Saturday Davis market to the Wednesday Davis one we do and the Thursday Benicia market. We will have lots of tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, basil, green and romano beans and so much more. The okra plants are starting to produce so we will have a little at the Wednesday and Saturday market this week and we are starting to see a few peppers begin to color up so they are almost ready.

Our heirloom tomatoes are slowly but surely starting to pick up but we will have lots of cherry tomatoes and early girls at market as there are really starting to produce lots of delicious fruit.

Monday was our 25th birthday and we had a nice celebration Sunday night during the weekly dinner we have with our mom and grandma. We had a wonderful birthday spent weeding lots of tomatoes, eggplants, onions and much more.

This upcoming Friday, July 1st, marks five years since our dad died. He was so instrumental in our love of farming without pushing us too much. We loved going to the Ferry Building Farmers Market on Saturdays as often as we could with him from a very young age. He started Eatwell Farm with our mom in 1993 on the same property that we are currently farming which has made us starting our farm even more special.

They only spent one year on this land living in a teepee before leasing 20 acres nearby and then a few years later buying 65 acres in-between Dixon and Winters. We spent so many hours with him walking around the farm watching everything grow and talking about the crops.

The love he had for organic farming could be seen by anyone who had a conversation with him. He not only wanted to grow amazing vegetables but connect people to where their food came from, especially kids, and take care of the land. He started farming in England before coming out to California so that he could farm year round. After touring the area, he worked at Terra Firma Farm for a little bit and through that he met our mom, who was an intern at Full Belly Farm, at the Marin Farmers Market and some time later they decided to start their own farm.