Fresh From Our Farmers: Oakmont
Early Saturday morning, vendors at the Oakmont Certified Farmers Market stand by their beautifully arranged booths, awaiting the customers who trickle in slowly. Musicians–on harmonica, mandolin, banjo...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Santa Rosa #2
One of the biggest changes in our farmers markets, especially the larger ones, is that they are now among the best places to shop for healthy proteins and fats. Everything from locally-produced olive...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Petaluma
The Petaluma Certified Farmers Market is one of just a few afternoon markets. It opened for its 25th season on May 21 and continues through November 19 from 2 to 5:30 p.m. in Walnut Park, located at...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Petaluma in August
On Saturday afternoon, the Petaluma farmers market couldn’t be more appealing. The weather, with temperatures in the low 70s, is gentle, fragrant and evocative of fall, with summer’s harvest in full...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Bodega Bay
The setting of the new Bodega Bay farmers market is rustic and beautiful. A little after 10 a.m. on Sunday morning, the temperature gauge in my car read in the low 60s but the sun was already quite...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Sonoma Valley
The Sonoma Valley Certified Farmers Market, one of Sonoma County’s year-round markets, is in the full glory of fall, with thirty-three vendors last Friday and thirty-five expected this week. Now that...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Sonoma Valley
On Friday morning, the Sonoma Valley farmers market is filled with customers–shopping, chatting and lingering over nibbles such as hummingbird-shaped cookies and lumpia–as a stream of moms,...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Petaluma Saturday Market Opens For Its 26th Season
The Petaluma Farmers Market, located in Walnut Park a few blocks south of downtown, opens for its 26th season this Saturday, May 19. There will be about 50 vendors, most of them returning, a few new....
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Launch of the Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers...
The Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market greeted Saturday morning from its new home in the southeast parking lot of the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. By 8:30 a.m., the market’s official...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Occidental Bohemian Market Opens
When the Occidental Bohemian Farmers market opens for its 2012 season on Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., it will be with several vendors that sell only at this market, along with a few farmers that sell...
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