Today lettuce in the ‘big box’ supermarket may have been shipped all the way from Turkey, while the apples may have come from China. Shipping these distances greatly reduces freshness and consumes a lot more fuel. We conduct our business differently. We buy our ingredients directly from organic family farms that are often less than 50 miles from our kitchen. These farmers produce healthier food and love the land as much as we love what they grow.
Meet Mariquita Farm
Mariquita Farm is a small family farm located near Watsonville, California. They grow organic specialty vegetables, greens, strawberries and herbs for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members in Santa Cruz County, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco and for the San Francisco Farmers Market customers at the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market.
www.mariquitafarms.com
Acre Gourmet is always venturing out into our local food community to find the best products we can. We learn about new farms and artisan producers all the time, and we take great joy in creating new relationships with great producers. Some of our trusted purveyors are…
Meats:
Pork:
Niman Ranch
Marin Sun Farms, Point Reyes Stations, CA
Hudson Vineyards, Napa, CA
Beef:
Marin Sun Farms, Point Reyes Station, CA
Chicken: Fulton Valley, several CA ranches
Turkey:
Willie Bird, Santa Rosa, CA
Diestel, Sonora, CA
Seafood:
We buy from Royal Hawaiian Seafood. Seafood is very seasonal, so location of catch will depend on local fisheries and quality. Some times we may get local, wild caught and other times it may be US sustainably farmed.
Milk:
Clover Stornetta, Petaluma, CA
Eggs:
Judy’s Organic Eggs, Petaluma, CA
Produce:
Marin Agricultural Institute: they deliver produce we’ve ordered in advance from the Marin Farmers Market every Monday, Marin Co., CA – See list of farms below.
Cooks Produce Co.: sustainably-minded produce company – they sell produce from many of the same farms at the farmers market!, San Francisco, CA
Mariquita Farm: This is a family run farm that is primarily a CSA, but it sells to SF restaurants every Wednesday, Watsonville, CA
Brown Rice:
Massa Organic Rice, Chico, CA
White Rice:
Lundberg Farms, RIchvale, CA
Koda Farms, San Joaquin Valley, CA
Pasta:
Gardentime Organic Pasta or Natural Value Organic Pasta
Bread:
Panorama Baking Co., San Francisco, CA
Tortilla Chips:
Sonoma Valley Tortilla Co. – local company that makes fresh tortillas daily, Santa Rosa, CA
Canned Tomato Products:
Muir Glen Organics or Christina’s Organics
Pastries:
City Baking Co., San Francisco, CA
Bagels:
House of Bagels, San Francisco, CA
Spices:
Frontier Organic Spices
Jam:
Kozlowski Farms, Forestville, CA
Peanut Butter:
Sunridge Farms Organic
Dressing:
Homemade or Annie’s Dressing
The Farms
Balakian Farm, Capay Organic, Chinchiolo Farms, County Line Harvest, DeSantis Farms, Devoto Gardens, Diekman Farms, Dulai Farms, EGB Farms, Fiddler’s Green, Full Belly Farm, Gabriel Farms, Hale’s Apple Farm, Her Farm, K&J Orchards, Lucero Organic Farm, MacDonalds Farm, Mariquita Farm, Marshall’s Honey, Massa Organics, Nana Mae Organics, Ortiz Brothers, Ortiz Farms, Palomino Family Farm, Quetzal Farm, Rodriguez Farm, Schletewitz Family Farm, Sebastopol Berry Farm, Smit Ranch, Solano Mushroom Farm, Swanton Berry Farm, The Peach Farm, Triple T Ranch, Xiong Farm, and Zuckermann Farm