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Participating farmers with ABOW are featured here. Come to the market to meet them in person
and purchase the fixings to make your own pizza!
We will be selling pizza shells that may be ordered
ahead of time to make your own pizzas at home. Or purchase them the day of
the market during the last hour.
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Manager Randii McNear proudly displays the national
award for "America's Favorite Farmers Market". Davis Farmers
Market swept the "Largest Market" category in a nationwide contest
sponsored by The American Farmland Trust in 2009, the first year
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PARTICIPATING ABOW SUPPLIERS
Olive Oils
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Taber Ranch has been a family farming operation in the Capay
Valley of western Yolo County since 1867. Over those years we’ve raised sheep,
pigs, and the occasional cow. We’ve used mule-power and horse-power,
track-layers and wheel tractors to grow wheat, barley, and grapes. Our first
almond trees were planted in 1890, some of which are still going strong today,
even as the main orchard was re-planted in 2002. We now have four acres of the
Merlin variety, a sweet almond found as a seedling on the ranch. Since 2004 we
have been producing award-winning artisan extra virgin olive oil from 1400
Arbequina and Koroneiki olive trees. Arbequina is a variety from northern Spain,
Koroneiki is the main variety of Greece, but they both are thriving in their
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Yolo Press Olive Oil (Certified
Organic by YCOA) is produced by Mike and Dianne Madison from our olive
groves growing along Putah Creek, five miles west of Davis. We first
planted olive trees in 1991, and have added trees over the years so that
we now have about 1,500 trees comprising ten varieties of olives. In
2006 we imported equipment form Italy, enabling us to carry out the
extraction, storage, and bottling of oil in our own facility. In 2008
and again in 2009, Yolo Press Olive Oil was Best of Show at the
California Olive Oil Competition.
In addition to olive oil, we produce table olives, figs, quince,
apricots, persimmons, citrus fruit, melons, and cut flowers. |
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Produce
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Good Humus
Produce...our family Farm
Good Humus is owned
and operated by Jeff and Annie Main along with their children Zachary, Alison
and Claire. Jeff and Annie are fourth generation Californians who are
continuing their agriculture heritage by caring for the land with sustainable
practices, and are certified organic through the Demeter Certification Program.
Good
Humus is a 20-acre diversified farm that supports three families and produces
mixed fruit and vegetables, herbs, flowers and value-added agricultural products
year-round. We have been growing and marketing vegetables in the
Sacramento Valley since 1976 and have also planted habitat for wildlife, and are
dedicated to farm preservation for future generations of farmers for local food
production.
For the past 34
years, we at Good Humus have been selling organically grown food to a highly
supportive group of people at the Davis Food
Coop, the Davis Farmers’ Market
and at the Sacramento Natural Foods Coop.
Since 1993 we have been providing food to consumers in Davis, Woodland,
Sacramento and San Francisco through our Community Supported Agriculture weekly
subscription box program. During the last 10 years, we have been increasingly
involved with local school district lunch programs and school-to-farm visits and
offer a 4-day program for inner city high school students several times during
the summer.
Our farm is nestled
next to the hills in a small valley called the Hungry Hollow, 45 miles northwest
of Sacramento and 90 miles northeast of San Francisco.
Read what Meghan Rosen
writes in the Davis Food Coop
Newsletter here!
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Jim having fun on market day sporting an original
"kohlrabi-veggie" design |
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Fiddler's Green Farm
Jim Eldon is
the owner/farmer of Fiddler's Green Farm. The farm is one of the oldest organic farms in Yolo County, first certified in 1982. The 37-acre vegetable farm is blessed with rich Tehama Loam soil and an abundant aquifer on nearly level bottomland halfway up the picturesque Capay Valley. Popular crops include green and purple asparagus and various salad greens during Spring.
Cucumbers, beans and squashes flourish during Summer. Beets, carrots and cooking greens abound in Fall.
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Lloyd Johnson grows
vegetables on five leased acres near Winters California. He has sold
them at the Davis Farmers Market since 1996, and his farm is CCOF
certified organic. Lloyd starts all his own seedlings and does almost
all of the labor himself with some help from family and friends. Some of
the farm’s produce specialties include heirloom eggplants such as Rosa
Bianca as well as Thai and Japanese varieties. He is also renowned for
his heirloom tomatoes picked at peak flavor:-- Marvel Stripe and
Brandywine. Lloyd is well known and respected by his loyal customers for
his high quality of producing fifty different herbs and vegetables on
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Our family migrated from
Laos to
Thailand, and immigrated to
Sacramento
during the Vietnam
War. At first, what was meant to provide sustenance to
the family from a small vegetable garden, grew into a thriving
nine acre farm due to the family's experience in the field of
agriculture. The farm produces flowers, vegetables, and
specializes in Asian vegetables.
Aromatic fragrances of Sweet William and
Sweet Pea flowers abundantly fill the air at the farm.
Approximately an acre away, the tasty fragrance of yummy onions,
leeks, and garlic populate the air. The greenhouse also has
the intoxicating scent of Sweet and
Thai Basil.
Sweet, juicy, sugar snap peas can be found during the spring,
and delicious fava
beans in the spring and
early summer months. During the summer months, tender,
jade
green beans, black eyed-peas, and purple Chinese
eggplants may be purchased. Chinese long beans are delicious and
a must for any body. Robust, flavorful kale may be purchased
during winter months.
The agricultural life is a
labor of love.
From the manual labor of weeding, watering, and planting, to
worrying about the adverse effects of unforeseen meteorological
conditions, the Vue
Family Farm
produces flowers and fresh vegetables your family will love as
much as ours. We hope to see you at one of the
farmers markets
in Davis, Auburn, Roseville, and Winters.
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The Fruit Factory provides "Red Flame"
Grapes at the Farmers Market to compliment our Artisan Seasonal Pizzas. |
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Solano Mushroom Farm is owned and operated by
Sam and Sunhee Shin of Vacaville. We have been growing our Certified Organic mushrooms in
Solano County for approximately 20 years. We sell to both Farmers Markets and retail
throughout the Bay Area. Our mushrooms can be found at the Davis market on Saturdays. We grow year
round a variety of specialty organic mushrooms such as Shiitake, Maitake, Oyster and Royal Trumpet
just to name a few. We also harvest seasonal mushrooms which include Morels, Porcini,
Chanterelles and Matsutake on our property in Mendocino County. Our main focus is to provide
a healthy quality product for the enjoyment of our customers.
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Whole Grains
Joseph's
Best Flour from
Certified Foods
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The Joseph's Best Label on our products is
assurance of grains that are truly natural and whole.
These words have real meaning for us, and we will not abuse their
integrity. The flour
for the pizza is from a hard white wheat, Blanca Fuerte, grown in the
Sacramento Valley. It is stone milled by Certified Foods, Inc., a
specialty whole grain miller in Woodland, CA.
We offer a wide spectrum of grains.
We have developed a line of whole grain dough products for pizza makers. All our
grains are certified organic or commercial quality.
It is our goal to spread the word about the
importance of whole grain products.
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