Staff of Life is AMAZING…read more It's my favorite grocery and herb store in Santa Cruz -- locally owned, stellar produce, excellent locally sourced products and great service. My kids are obsessed with their "car carts" and we always have a lovely time shopping there together!

I try and stop by at least once a week i love how everything is organic and such fresh products but…read morei came into the store today looking some items, the lines were so ridiculously long! Only 2 cashiers on a busy weekend!? and when i went into The restroom it was disgusting! No toiletry, urine all on the floor, clogged toilet, when i asked to speak to a manager. No manager was even on site!? Where is the store manager? This is ridiculous i immediately left all my products and walked out

Service is great! Sarahi assisted me in getting fresh vegetables from the back for my daughter when…read morethey were out of stock on the floor. The managers are very fast when giving you formula, ensuring they're not expired & making sure you get the most from your groceries trip. Thank you guys!

This is a great little grocery store! If you want to change your WIC vouchers or if you just want…read moreto make a purchase. They accept cash/credit/EBT, just beware that they don't accept bills bigger than $20 unless you're making a big purchase. Service is good but one girl practically ignored me until someone else helped. Might have caught her at a bad moment, but other than that, this is a little jewel of a store and makes WIC so much easier!

The redheaded saleswoman at the stand was extremely rude and unprofessional. She saw me come over…read moreand continued to chat with her friend for a good 2-3 minutes while I stood and patiently waited. When she finally looked over, I asked if I could taste the kimchee. Then she very rudely responded that the market has been closed for twenty minutes (although most stands were still selling) and that she was all done and gave me a dirty look. If she was closing up shop for the day, she could have addresses me politely, and furthermore started taking down the signs that says try our kimchee! But she did neither, and was just hanging out with her friend complaining about something and decided to take her anger out on me. Although they make quite tasty kraut, I will not support a business who hires salespeople to be so unprofessional rude to its customers.

Farmhouse Culture makes sauerkraut of various veggies. a 8 oz jar sells for $6-7…read more locale: JLS farmers market(7/1) varieties: -apple fennel -kimchi -horseradish leek -jalepeno -beet -carraway drink: shot of jalepeno kraut juice (1)-3 ounce -mostly sour with jolt of spiciness. -helps clean out insides?

Unfortunately, I developed an allergy to vanilla and caffeine (including chocolate), and for the…read morepast 10 years I've been on the hunt for truly delicious desserts without these ingredients. I discovered carob as a chocolate alternative, but most carob desserts either contain vanilla or are overly sweet--in a bad way. I recently came across Sunridge Farms Carob Energy Bites through a Google search (I live in Arizona), and I can honestly say this is the best carob dessert I've found anywhere. The texture is fantastic, with a slight crunch from the nuts, and it doesn't have that sickeningly sweet flavor that so many other carob treats do. You have to try these--they're amazing. I just wish their other carob desserts didn't contain vanilla, because I would buy all of them. Please don't ever stop making the Carob Energy Bites. I'll be a customer for life. I read through some of the other reviews and noticed that a lot of people really love the coconut bites. If the Supergreens Energy Chews version comes back in stock, I'll definitely be trying those as well. I also wish the Quinoa Mango Granola came in individual-sized bags instead of bulk so I could try it.

The raspberry crunch granola uses to have big freeze dried raspberries and now it doesn't! so…read moredisappointing!

I buy Fiesta Farm eggs and chicken at the Campbell farmers market- they are both excellent quality…read more The eggs are fresh and taste like an egg should! The chickens are so clean that when I use them to make broth there isn't any junk or scum that comes out in the cooking. I would buy these everyday if I could! Wish I could have access to these on a regular basis!!!

I am thrilled to be able to buy pastured chicken, pastured pork, pastured turkey, and pastured eggs…read morefrom Aurelio and Sarah, the husband and wife team that make up this small, local operation. I have purchased from them at the Sunnyvale Farmer's Market on Saturdays, from the Campbell Farmer's Market on Sundays, direct in the form of a couple bulk buys to stock my freezer, and over the years from a couple different season-long CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) pickup sites they've set up in San Jose and in Los Gatos. Buying directly from the farmer has been an educational experience for me and my family in terms of really understanding how food gets from the farm to the table. Before this, I bought the same cuts of on-sale factory farmed meat from the grocery store, failing to internalize that what those animals were fed and the living conditions in which they were raised could not possibly result in food that I would want to consume. I did not understand that "organic" or "free-range" did not mean what I would have assumed it to mean. After watching the movie "Food Inc.", I totally understand now why you ought to want to meet your farmers and have a direct relationship with them. The more I have read, the more foolish I feel to trust big corporations and the deceptive marketing they use to swindle you into believing their products are wholesome. If I could reasonably pull it off, I'd raise my own animals and grow more of my own food, but since that's not practical right now, this is the next best thing. Over time, I am learning how to use the variety of cuts that we get from the pork and how to render the fat to use in browning roasts, cooking vegetables, making pastry (for pies and samosas), and occasional frying. I use the chicken bones and carcass and now also the heads and feet to regularly make stock. (I am worried about what is in the bones of industrially-farmed animals so I regret using them for stocks before I learned about this.) And overall, we now eat less meat than we used to, being careful not to waste anything. We used to buy a $5 whole chicken, already roasted, from Costco, and now I am flabbergasted at speculating what they must do to be able to pull that off. Prior to reading about pastured animals, I was afraid of consuming animal fat. Now I am only afraid of the animal fat from industrially-farmed animals (as I'm worried about the toxins and antibiotics being concentrated in them). I'm also afraid of many vegetable oils as I've read that the processing of them likely has damaged them to the point of making them dangerous for us to consume. So I am thankful I can now render my own lard from Fiesta Farm's pork (and tallow from Morris Grassfed's beef). I respect and appreciate Sarah and Aurelio's transparency and values and am happy to support their business. I am thankful for their hard work and their commitment to doing things right. And wow, I am so grateful to live in the bay area where we have relatively easy access to nutritious real food produced with integrity.

Una cosa que molesta que no habrán a tiempo estuve esperando por 30 minutos después de su horario…read morede habría su horario es de 10:00 am a 8:00 pm pero son las 10:30 y todavía estaba cerrado

Needed a body cleaning for a drug test found what I was looking for great people very friendly will…read moreanswer any questions you got .

This is for the driver of truck #41 going into Salinas through San Miguel Canyon about 2 hours ago…read more Your continuous tailgating and actually honking at us as we were on the on-ramp to Highway 101 at the safe speed of 20-25 MPH per posted signs was unneeded. It did however give me an opportunity to show my son, who is learning how to drive, what not to do and how not to drive.

Great local farmer with world class organic farm operation. high quality produce that uses…read morecombination of organic process and state of the art cooling and packing facility that makes you eat your hand with your veggies!

Great barn/farm/orchard setting! The sandwiches were excellent but of course the real star was the…read moreapple pie! Huge slices too, as the apple pie is about twice the height of the other ones. There was simultaneously always a lineup (at 2:30min the afternoon), and yet people were never waiting long. The hot apple cider, and fresh apple cider, are amazing as well.

I really wanted to get my sister an apricot pie, but they didn't have a whole one, only a couple of…read moreslices, so I ended up with a "Very Berry". All the pies looked good, but I won't know how it tastes since it's not for me. My friends ordered slices and they seemed a bit small; the cost per slice is more than for a quarter of a whole pie, but the size seemed much smaller. I guess it pays to buy the whole pie! Very popular shop. There was a line when we arrived and a line when we left. The pie shop is next door to the store where they sold apples and fresh apple juice. There were cups of apple juice in the fridge that you could help yourself to as samples; very refreshing and delicious. The store also sold lots of kitchen knickknacks and some toys and fun things. Made for a great stop.