lovely veggies. I see them at the Saturday market. Would definitely join their CSA.read more

Lunita Farm delivers fresh fruits and vegetables weekly as a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)…read moreand also sells produce at the Sunday farmers' market in Glen Ellen. I started receiving a weekly share from Lunita Farm last summer and I've never tasted better carrots. Throughout the season, I also got really tasty tomatoes, eggplants, padrone peppers, figs, melons, and beets, to name a few. In the winter, we get every kind of leafy green imaginable, as well as a turnips, winter squash, and storage onions. This spring has so far yielded a beautiful crop of fava beans (a new favorite of mine) and some amazing strawberries. Yum! Each share is packed with a wonderful variety of delicious veggies (some familiar, some new) and a news letter with updates from the farm, a recipe, and instructions on how to prepare some of the less common produce. Everything is grown organically here in Sonoma, although the farm is not certified organic. As I've said, this is some of the best produce I've ever tasted, and it's obvious that the vegetables are tended to with care. Plus, it's a wonderful challenge to cook with whatever is in the share each week, and it's fun to see the contents of the share (and my menus) change with the seasons. I can't recommend Lunita Farm highly enough.

What an amazing and magical place to spend a day. Thank you for showing us your incredible farm and…read moresharing your delicious cheese. Loved every second. Highly recommend a visit to all in the area!

We have been happy CSA members of Tara Firma Farms for 3+ years now and highly recommend for anyone…read morelooking for a local, sustainable farm co-op! The eggs are wonderful, delivery prompt, online store very accessible, and they conveniently partner with other local farms to provide veggies + fruit in addition to their sustainable meats (most CSAs will only provide one or the other). We came across Tara Firma initially via online / yelp searches shortly after moving to the Bay Area in 2016. When my husband and I initially started looking into vegetarianism for animal welfare reasons, I suggested we visit a farm that employs best practices of ethically and sustainably raised meat to help inform our decision. Tara Firma offers free educational tours every weekend and so we drove up one day with our 2 dogs (leashed dogs welcome!) and another family with their 3 (non furry) children for a fun Petaluma outing. The tour was informative and our guide was clearly super passionate about their mission. The farm was very beautiful and the lands idyllic -- we loved the fact that the cows were so free range that we could just barely make them out as a tiny dot in the distant hills. We all enjoyed observing the chicken dynamics around their mobile coop with their rooster guard, and they showed us how unperturbed the hens were when removing the eggs from the nest-- evening letting the children carefully take a couple out. Ultimately, we decided to pursue a vegetarian diet (especially after my husband met the pigs there), but we joined the CSA for their eggs and veggie share + cheeses (sourced from partner farms). We also have purchased meat occasionally for visiting carnivore families and friends, as we wanted to ensure if they were going to eat meat -- they were getting it from a farm like Tara Firma that does it in the right way. The best part of the CSA was their pet share as we realized buying offal from this farm would be a great compromise for our dogs (who were rebelling against our plant-based diet experiment) as we just wanted to provide our dogs protein with leftovers / byproduct without creating additional demand on the meat industry. Our pet share included amazing proteins like heart, tongue, cheeks, as well as more indulgent items like liver and kidney. Even the trotters and bones I would use to make broth in order to flavor / disguise our dogs' vegetarian kibble haha :) We also occasionally received some freezer burn meats, which cannot be sold for human consumption but safe (and very drool-worthy) for our dogs! Unfortunately, the pet share program has been discontinued but there are still plenty of diverse offal options in the farm store! Overall, a great local farm to support and highly recommend a visit!

Very long overdue, but need to sing the praises of the team at Full Belly Farm. We had an amazing…read morefarm tour and farm to table dinner here with a group of 15 in April 2022. Staff gave us a comprehensive tour of farm operations and livestock care. It was so nice to see the animals well cared for. They're so knowledgeable and passionate about their work - it was really inspiring. Afterwards, we had a special set menu dinner with ingredients all from their farm. We were amazed by how flavorful everything was from their salad to the lamb chops and black eyed pea side. Highly recommend for a really unique and memorable experience for a group. Some of us also camped on-site that night! Would love to go back again.

Not so happy. Not a lot of inspiring produce. Mostly very hearty & long lasting. Lots & lots of…read moreonions, carrots, potatoes, kale, etc. When fruit was finally in the box, the tomatoes were already soft, the apriums bruised, & the melons a bit mushy. This was the day we got them! We've waited almost a week for a response after emailing to ask if this was a one off. They were very responsive when I was ordering things. :( They say they pick produce at its ripest but I don't think this means as it is about to turn. The delivery set up is different each week. Sometimes a swap box, sometimes not, sometimes it's awkward to get your stuff, sometimes it's so easy! I won't continue when my subscription is up.

Farmer Paul's boxes are amazing!! We've been getting them every week for almost 5 years and every…read morebox is full of fantastic seasonal organic produce. There's not usually any plastic packaging in the boxes too which I love. Farmer Paul has really changed the way we eat and we love it!

Greenhearts Family Farm is a gem, with a beautiful spot out in Half Moon Bay. I look forward to…read moretheir u-pick events with lots of delicious tomatoes as well as some berries and flowers. As for the CSA boxes, produce is organic, fresh, and local, and delivered to your door. They do a lot of nice events for CSA members. Farmer Paul and the team are lovely and care a lot about the community and what we eat. I hope they stick around for a long time.

Absolutely wonderful!!! I tried another CSA - no comparison. You can pick which drop-off location…read moreworks best for you, it's organic produce and it's quality produce. I like they give you a sheet that lists what you have received, how to maintain and prepare some of it too. This is my first year trying it, after my friend recommended it. So glad I did this. The only drawback is you can't select the box contents, but I look as it as a challenge to eat something new.

2013 and it's still great. I look forward to Friday. It's like Christmas every week, if my…read moregrandparents were organic farmers and only gave boxes of in season produce as gifts. Great couple that runs the show and does the hard work to enable me the pleasure of enjoying the good stuff week after week. Thanks M & L

We are still a happy Terra Firma box family…read more This season their little gems lettuce is - no exaggeration - the most delicious substance on earth.

We have really been enjoying getting our weekly veggie box. although we are a small family We still…read morefigure out how to make the large box work. It's basically enough for our entire week and we only buy a few small things at the store now. everything seems so fresh and it's also just fun to go and pick them up in our neighborhood with our kids and then go through the boxes together and wash everything and show them what it all is.

We were really looking forward to our first box but were extremely disappointed in the quality of…read morethe produce - both the fruits and vegetables. We cancelled our subscription after week one - but have 3 more boxes to pick up since you must pre-order a month at a time. I'm rating it a 2 instead of a 1 because I very much like the CSA model, in theory. We have subscribed to other CSAs in the past and found the quality to be higher. We tried this one because the pick up location was within walking distance of our home. I am reading the five star reviews and wondering how our first impression can be so completely different.

Disappointed on the quality, not even my Instacart shopper did this terrible picking fruits and…read moreveggies. I received green potatoes I had to throw out and tomatoes past their prime. We just received our last box today , 4 weeks was too long. The peaches and nectarines in the picture were in our box today, disappointing. I went with it because my wife liked the idea but there are better local areas in the Suisun Valley that are easy on the wallet, on the eye and on my tastebuds.

I haven't written a single Yelp review since the Great Pandemic began. I would like to return to…read moreYelp, starting now, writing thankful and positive reviews for establishments that have come through for all of us in a time of crisis. Let's start with Riverdog! I was pretty confident that I'd written about Riverdog in the past and was somewhat shocked to see that I praised only their eggs in my short initial review. Yes, the eggs are great, and everyone knows it. But I can make a long, long list of Riverdog products that consider to be top notch: green garlic, raw chickens, pork chops, carrots, daikons, asparagus tips, onions, black radishes, little gems when they're available, .... At the moment, their early girl and heirloom tomatoes are truly excellent. In recent weeks, I've gotten their squash and green beans -- excellent again, of course. Riverdog prices are not outrageous, in view of the high quality. Their wares merit a detour. The farmers (Trini and Tim) and their employees (shout out here for Becky) are all super-nice. Check them out!

After trying other CSAs in the area I came across Riverdog Farm from a newsletter sent out by my…read morefavorite pork butcher, Fatted Calf. $20 a week for organic produce, why not give it a shot. So I paid for a month in advance (you pay by check either by the month or the quarter) and waited for my first pick up. Fortunately there are a few options for picking up your box in Napa (check their website to see if there's one nearby you) including one only a mile away from our home. Yeah! The pickup location, at least in my area, is in someone's carport which is fairly typical of CSAs, thank goodness for volunteers. Just verify your pick up by signing the clipboard by your name, grab your box or unload it into your own bags (if you take the box return it in your next visit) then prepare to be wowed by the amazing produce. Each week is a little but different and changes along with the season. What's always in the box is the most beautiful organic produce I've ever seen. This weeks box had a bunch of gorgeous rainbow chard which was sautéed along with Fatted Calf sweet sausage served on top of Model bread with poached eggs. Best chard ever! I've posted a few pics of the last few boxes, judge for yourself, Riverdog Farm is amazing. It doesn't get any better than this. PS... They also raise organic fed hogs and chickens. Picked up my first pork share (delivered along with my regular box pick up) and the cuts look so tasty. Can not wait to braise the fresh hocks. Check their website for a complete list of pork share offerings.

I had a friend coming to visit Sonoma County from the East Bay and she had done some research to…read morefind a PYO flower place. She found First Light Farm and recommended that we try it out. We pulled in through the gates and saw a small field of flowers to the left, along with a shed-like structure and a house in the back. The right side was pretty empty; I'm guessing whatever was growing there had already been harvested. We stood around for a few mins pretty confused about how it all worked. We found a sign saying that CSA members get to cut for free and a pricing chart for non-members. There were clippers and a knife sitting next to a stack of boxes, so we grabbed one of each and headed for the garden. The selection wasn't quite what we expected, but we still got a great bunch of flowers and sunflowers. Some were a little difficult to access from the walkways, so we just tried to be as careful as possible. When we were done, we tried to pay, but there wasn't really a designated place to leave money, so we just stuck it under a box inside the shed area (I hope they got it!). Very cute place! A little confusing for first-timers, but overall a nice experience.

If you know wagyu beef, don't order this inferior product. It tastes more like gristle than wagyu…read more NOTHING at all redeeming about this brand of inferior meat.

This is the best deal on a CSA box I've ever seen! For a "medium" box it's only $20 ($15 for your…read morefirst order) and you can order whenever you like, no obligation or paying a month or more in advance. Plus they will deliver it right to your home! And that price includes delivery! I said "medium" box because when they brought it to us yesterday it was HUGE! So for $15 we got a watermelon, a galia melon, a bunch of basil, 4 bell peppers, several zucchini, 2 huge cucumbers, 2 Japanese eggplants, 4 PINTS of tomatoes in 3 different varieties, 2 sandwich bags full of 2 different varieties of hot peppers, a butternut squash, a huge spaghetti squash, and a pattypan squash. They haven't used any chemicals for four years (so basically organic without the certification) and they use drinking quality well water on all the produce. I'm so happy I stumbled upon this place while searching online for a CSA deal. I highly recommend giving them a try.

Since COVID I've been trying to find a good CSA box but almost all of the farms I found had a huge…read morewaitlist. I wish this farm had more advertisement so I could have found it earlier! I got my first box last week and it was huge, definitely the best value I've seen. Plus they don't use any pesticides or fertilizer, which is higher standard than organic. Organic certification allows the use of some pesticides and other non-sustainable practices. The owner Michael is super friendly and answered all my questions. I'll definitely visit them often at Sunday's farmer's market or get a CSA box from them. Highly recommended!