Ellis and Andrew with six bins of sunflowers that they helped to pick —
Viewed close in on a summer’s day, it would be fair to say that Full Belly Farm grows a lot of tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and eggplants — all members of the same large botanical family of plants called Solanacea, also known as Nightshades. On many summer afte [...]
News From the Farm | August 10, 2020
Ellis and Andrew with six bins of sunflowers that they helped to pick —
Viewed close in on a summer’s day, it would be fair to say that Full Belly Farm grows a lot of tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and eggplants — all members of the same large botanical family of plants called Solanacea, also known as Nightshades. On many summer afte [...]
Winery Tasting Rooms Open – Mad...
Date: August 9, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: info@maderavintners.com Sponsor: Madera Vintners Association Location: Winery Tasting Rooms in Madera County
Cedar View Wine Tasting Open – ...
Date: August 8, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: 559 – 787 – 9412 Sponsor: Cedar View Winery Location: 1384 S. Frankwood Avenue, Sanger, CA 93657
News From the Farm | August 3, 2020
August 1st CSA box, photo by member Maria Grazia —
People call Wednesday hump day because they are halfway to the weekend. I am thinking that the next couple of weeks are kind of the hinge or the hump of the Full Belly summer season. We’ve picked our way through the first fields of tomatoes and melons. People in stores are look [...]
Winery Tasting Rooms Open – Mad...
Date: August 2, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: info@maderavintners.com Sponsor: Madera Vintners Association Location: Winery Tasting Rooms in Madera County
Cedar View Wine Tasting Open – ...
Date: August 1, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: 559 – 787 – 9412 Sponsor: Cedar View Winery Location: 1384 S. Frankwood Avenue, Sanger, CA 93657
Good Humus Peach Party – Yolo C...
Date: August 1, 2020
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Contact: (530) 787-3187 – humus@cal.net Sponsor: Good Humus Produce Location: 12255 County Road 84A, Capay, CA 95607
Yolo County Nut Buying Period Starts ...
Press Release
Yolo County Nut Buying Period Starts August 1
(Woodland, CA) – Yolo County Agricultural Commissioner John Young announced today that the nut buying period will be held August 1, 2020 through April 1, 2021, in accordance with the…
Former goat herder’s crop research pr...
This is one of a series of stories featuring a sampling of UC ANR academics whose work exemplifies the public value UC ANR brings to California.
Oli Bachie, “person of the globe,” researches new desert crops to spur economic growth
While herding goats along dusty roads as a boy growing up in Oromia, Ethiopia, Oli Bachie be [...]
Healthy vending grows in popularity o...
Raw hunger or thirst usually draws people to buy snacks from vending machines. Healthy options, calorie counts and reminders help consumers make good-sense decisions when they slip in coins or a credit card, according to research by a working group organized under UC's Global Food Initiative and led by the UC Nutrition Policy Institute.
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News From the Farm | July 27, 2020
Our Fabulous Farmers Market Team in Berkeley —
Tradeoffs —
Last week, was hot and dry, but that is hardly news in the Capay Valley in July. The fact that our field crews come to work every day in that sometimes too-hot weather, picking tomatoes and melons is also hardly newsworthy, but we do actively appreciate it. A lot [...]
News From the Farm | July 27, 2020
Our Fabulous Farmers Market Team in Berkeley —
Tradeoffs —
Last week, was hot and dry, but that is hardly news in the Capay Valley in July. The fact that our field crews come to work every day in that sometimes too-hot weather, picking tomatoes and melons is also hardly newsworthy, but we do actively appreciate it. A lot [...]
Winery Tasting Rooms Open – Mad...
Date: July 26, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: info@maderavintners.com Sponsor: Madera Vintners Association Location: Winery Tasting Rooms in Madera County
Lobster Fest – Brentwood- Contr...
Date: July 25, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Contact: info@harvestforyou.com Sponsor: Harvest Time Brentwood Location: Hannah Nicole Vineyards & Winery, 6700 Balfour Rd Brentwood, CA 94513 US
Cedar View Wine Tasting Open – ...
Date: July 25, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: 559 – 787 – 9412 Sponsor: Cedar View Winery Location: 1384 S. Frankwood Avenue, Sanger, CA 93657
Cedar View Wine Tasting Open – ...
Date: July 25, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: 559 – 787 – 9412 Sponsor: Cedar View Winery Location: 1384 S. Frankwood Avenue, Sanger, CA 93657
Cedar View Wine Tasting Open – ...
Date: July 25, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: 559 – 787 – 9412 Sponsor: Cedar View Winery Location: 1384 S. Frankwood Avenue, Sanger, CA 93657
Torres Martinez Tribal Council helped...
During the month of June, families at the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Tribe and nearby trailer parks in eastern Coachella Valley received free produce boxes weekly from the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program.
This program was created by USDA to give families in need access to fresh food during the coronavirus pandemic. From [...]
News From the Farm | July 20, 2020
Bonifacio with melons & basil —
Full Belly has sold our produce to dozens of restaurants over the years, sometimes over a span of decades, and we’ve learned a lot about cuisine and community through those relationships. It was at one of those restaurants that I lunched with my father and mother many weeks in a row, after I had f [...]
Winery Tasting Rooms Open – Mad...
Date: July 19, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: info@maderavintners.com Sponsor: Madera Vintners Association Location: Winery Tasting Rooms in Madera County
Winery Tasting Rooms Open – Mad...
Date: July 19, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: info@maderavintners.com Sponsor: Madera Vintners Association Location: Winery Tasting Rooms in Madera County
Cedar View Wine Tasting Open – ...
Date: July 18, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: 559 – 787 – 9412 Sponsor: Cedar View Winery Location: 1384 S. Frankwood Avenue, Sanger, CA 93657
Cedar View Wine Tasting Open – ...
Date: July 18, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: 559 – 787 – 9412 Sponsor: Cedar View Winery Location: 1384 S. Frankwood Avenue, Sanger, CA 93657
Cedar View Wine Tasting Open – ...
Date: July 18, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Contact: 559 – 787 – 9412 Sponsor: Cedar View Winery Location: 1384 S. Frankwood Avenue, Sanger, CA 93657
News From the Farm | July 13, 2020
Francisco Zavala Medina, Full Belly mechanic —
All of us, including bona fide analysts and researcher types are trying to figure out what our lives and the world will look like on the other side of the pandemic. An interesting report from CoBank predicts that “economic recovery may now favor rural communities for the first time in ma [...]
