Local Food Products

CHEESES

• Cowgirl Creamery – www.cowgirlcreamery.com - From the beginning, they wanted to make delicious, artisan cheese, to be environmentally responsible, and they also wanted to support their cheesemaking friends in being sustainable land stewards. Today, Cowgirl Creamery continues to make just a small collection of cheese — four, soft aged and three fresh, totaling about 3,000 pounds per week. However, their circle of cheesemaking friends has grown like wildfire and they now distribute extraordinary artisan cheeses from over 60 of America’s and Europe’s most prized producers. – 80 Fourth Street , Point Reyes Station, CA 94956   – (415) 663-9335

• Cypress grove - www.cypressgrovechevre.com/ – renowned for its innovative range of fresh, aged and ripened cheeses — many invented by owner and cheesemaker Mary — and internationally awarded for excellence, Cypress Grove is a leader in the domestic goat cheese market.. GREEN ENTREPRENEUR AWARD Cheesemaker Recognized for Support of Local Family Dairies and Land Preservation. 1330 Q Street, Arcata, CA 95521 (map), Phone: 707.825.1100, Fax: 707.825.1101 info@cypressgrovechevre.com
  
• Redwood Hill Farm - http://www.redwoodhill.com/ -  Redwood Hill Farm is an award-winning, Humane Certified, Grade A goat dairy farm and creamery located in Sonoma County, California. Family owned and operated for over 40 years, we are committed to making the best tasting and least processed goat milk, artisan goat milk cheese, yogurt and kefir. Highway 116 N., Building 1, Suite 130,  Sebastopol, CA 95472 • (707) 823-8250 • contact@redwoodhill.net
• Sierra Nevada Cheese Co. - Sierra Nevada Cheese Company was founded in 1997 by Ben Gregersen and John Dundon. Ben and John are both hands-on owners and operators of Sierra Nevada Cheese Company.  Their mission is to provide their customers with the highest quality product using only the most wholesome milk, free of added hormones, preservatives, stabilizers, gums, and nothing artificial… just great cheese. Ben and John have 50 years of combined experience and they have never wavered from the industry and their own standards.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    At Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, we support a sustainable economy and environment through local sourcing. Our use of agricultural products preserves the nature of our regional economy and its historic culture.

The continued pressure on food companies to outperform their bottom-line, has led to over-processing and unconventional production methods.  This results in food that is full of stabilizers, fillers, and preservatives in the name of efficiency, and at the expense of quality and flavor.

Sierra Nevada Cheese Company strives to create the best tasting dairy products by keeping true to our own philosophy:  A clean ingredient list, coupled with traditional manufacturing methods. We use only natural, wholesome ingredients and milk and cream from local Northern California producers who guarantee their product is free of synthetic hormones and antibiotics. Additionally, our organic dairy partners practice animal welfare standards outlined by American Humane Association.  Organic cheeses and goat cheeses. 6505 County Road #39
Willows, CA 95988, info@sierranevadacheese.com – (530) 934-8660

BAKED GOODS

• Earths Sweet Pleasures – certified organic fudge. www.earthssweetpleasures.com – Earth’s Sweet Pleasures endeavors to make the highest quality organic gourmet fudge in the world while supporting sustainability of the planet and it’s inhabitants.  Our fudge is made the old-fashioned way, using an original family recipe that is 25% less sweet than conventional fudge, enhancing the intense flavor of the award winning rich, dark chocolate.  Every ingredient in our fudge is all natural certified organic and the delicious dark chocolate is grown by fair trade farmers in Central and South America.  By purchasing our fudge you help sustain the rainforest where cacao trees are grown in the shade of the canopy.  A portion of our proceeds go to environmental and humanitarian organizations that promote economic fairness for cacao farmers and their families. 888-999-3191
• Flour Garden – Gluten free, Local grains, Organic and Vegan options available. Member Think Local First, composts food waste.
• Sweet Sierra Cupcakes – Organic and vegan, 273-6257, Grass Valley CA 95945

Olive Oil

• Apollo Olive Oil -  www.apollooliveoil.com – Apollo Olive Oil is a small, family-run business with a local focus. Our goal is to produce flavorful and healthy olive oils in the finest tradition, with a commitment to craftsmanship extending from grove to bottle. We tend our trees with organic, sustainable methods, harvest by hand at optimum ripeness, and closely monitor every phase of the milling process.

Our oils are among the few in California that are certified both organic and extra virgin. They are raw, unadulterated, and 100% cold-pressed on the only mill in America designed to preserve the highest levels of flavor, nutrients, and anti-oxidants.

In 2006, Apollo Olive Oil was the first California oil to be chosen as one of the Top Ten Olive Oil Producers In The World, by the prestigious Italian judging panel, I Mastri Oleari. – 530-692-2314

• Caleolea Olive Oil -Calolea’s organic olive oil has been certified “extra virgin” by the COOC and has an acidity level of 0.13%. The olives on the Keller’s 100 year old Mission and Manzanillo trees are hand picked, stone crushed and cold pressed within 24 hours to create the highest quality oil possible. 11343 Choctaw Trail  Loma Rica, CA 95901 -info@caleolea.com -  530.749.1240

FRUIT

• Bierwagons - Peaces, Apples and Ciders – All our peaches are organically grown, and C.C.O.F. (California Certified Organic Farmers) Certified. We are currently working on becoming certified organic for our vegetables as well. We’re located on a sleepy country road off State Highway 174 only 4 miles from Interstate 80 / Colfax and 10 miles from Grass Valley. Look for the signs that say “Donner Trail Fruit” and “Happy Apple Kitchen.”  (530) 477-5992 -  info@bierwagens.com

• Johansen Ranch – Satsuma & Clementine Mandarin, Blood & Navel Oranges, Meyer Lemons & Olive Oil
  Tree-Ripened and Organically Grown – 415 First Street, Orland, CA 95963 • Fax (530) 865-2500
• Sunsmile Farms – WE GROW CCOF CERTIFIED ORGANIC FRUITS & VEGETABLES!FARMSTAND ~ U-PICK ~ CSA ~ FARMERS MARKET ~ WHOLESALE. Nestled among the rolling foothills of Nevada County, California, just on the outskirts of Grass Valley, sits our 70-acre family farm. Here we have produced mountain grown fruits and vegetables since 1939 and take pride in our exceptionally sweet and delicious cherries, peaches, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. Our gardens are known for a large variety of tasty melons and Heirloom tomatoes.

GRAINS

• Grass Valley Grains - Reed Hamilton, This is a one-man farming and milling operation with occasional help from friends, volunteers, and some paid help. I grow grain crops using organic methods and materials and mill some into flour or meal in my own stone mill. Currently everything is grown on a fifth-generation farm in Wheatland, California where there is abundant flat land. The flour mill is in Grass Valley. 13310 Nannas Way, Grass Valley, CA 95949 . 530-273-8818 . reedhamilton38@yahoo.com
• Lundberg Rice -Since 1937, the Lundberg family has been growing healthy, great tasting rice while respecting and sustaining the earth. Today, the third generation carries on the family heritage by using eco-positive farming methods that produce wholesome, healthful rice, rice cakes, rice chips and risottos while improving and protecting the environment for generations to come. At Lundberg Family Farms®, we don’t grow commercial rice. All our Organic and Eco-Farmed rice is grown with a concern for the environment. We treat the soil, air and water as a sustainable unit, respecting the delicate balances of nature. We use sustainable growing practices on all our conventional fields and call it Eco-Farmed! Lundberg Family Farms, 5370 Church Street, P.O. Box 369, Richvale, CA 95974, customer service:  530. 882.4551, info@lundberg.com
  

MEATS

• Nevada City Free Range Beef – http://www.nevadacountyfreerangebeef.com/ -  Sustainably raised beef -  If you want to eat healthy and buy local, plus enjoy the wonderful taste of pasture-raised beef, you’ve come to the right place. Our cattle are grass fed and grass finished. They range freely over hundreds of acres of lush green pasture, enjoying fresh air, warm sunshine, and clear water. We don’t give them hormones or antibiotics, and their pasture grass is pesticide free. And of course, our cows are never, ever confined to a feedlot. The result is animals that live happy lives, and beef with extraordinary texture and taste. In fact, the beef from our cattle is loaded with heart-healthy omega-3 and conjugated linoleic acids, anti-oxidants, and vitamins. 530-273-1025

SEAFOOD

• Nevada City Seafood – http://www.nevadacityseafood.com/ – Sustainably farmed and wild caught fresh fish from local sources. 1020 Whispering Pines Lane, Grass Valley, CA 95945 and 115 South Pine Street Nevada City, 95959 – (530) 274-2919