Full Belly Farm
Full Belly Farm
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Come to the Full Belly Farms Annual Hoes Down Festival!
This all-day celebration of the harvest season offers a unique opportunity to enjoy rural life on an organic family farm, with educational tours, workshops, hayrides and an abundance of food and music. The Hoes Down has been featured in National Geographic magazine. The Children's Area has been described as “the best in the state.” There's something for everyone in the family at the Hoes Down. Kids have their own area with arts and crafts, nature walks, storytelling, games, a petting zoo, hay rides, and terrific contests. Other all ages activities include hands-on workshops, craft booths, farmers' market, farm tours, dancing, and much more. For more details, go to the Hoes Down Festival website at http://www.hoesdown.org. See you at the Hoes Down!Introducing the Full Belly Farm Full Belly Farm is a 200-acre certified organic farm located in the beautiful Capay Valley of Northern California, an hour northwest of Sacramento. Full Belly has been farmed using organic practices since 1985 and is certified by California Certified Organic Farmers. The farm owners are Andrew Brait, Paul Muller, Judith Redmond, and Dru Rivers. With help from about 25 to 30 employees, the farm produces an amazing diversity of vegetables, herbs, nuts, flowers, and fruits year-round. The farm also has a flock of chickens, a herd of sheep, and several cows. Full Belly's system includes: growing and marketing over 80 different crops; providing year-round employment for farm labor; using cover crops that fix nitrogen and provide organic matter for the soil; developing innovative marketing strategies; and planting habitat areas for beneficial insects and wildlife. This set of strategies allows the farm to integrate farm production with longer-term environmental goals. Full Belly products are marketed both wholesale and retail. We sell to restaurants, at farmers markets and through a Community Supported Agriculture project, or CSA. Both the CSA and the farmers markets forge a direct connection between the farm and the people who buy and eat its produce. Through the CSA, individuals can receive a weekly share of produce through the year. By belonging to the CSA, members support organic farming practices that are healthful for people and the environment. They also have the opportunity to eat the freshest, most nutritional produce available. CSA members receive boxes of fresh produce delivered to convenient neighborhood locations in the East Bay, South Bay, and San Rafael, as well as in Sacramento, Davis, Woodland, and Esparto. For a small additional fee, boxes can also be delivered right to a member's door on Tuesday and Wednesday in selected East Bay locations. Full Belly is also home to many outreach activities, including educational tours, school group visits, and the much-acclaimed annual Hoes Down Harvest Festival. The Hoes Down Festival celebrates rural life and educates the public about growing food in a sustainable manner. Through such programs to the general public, Full Belly seeks to create awareness of farm realities and to stress the importance of farms in the fabric of our society. Join Our CSA! The Full Belly CSA Delivers around Midtown Sacramento: Wednesdays: 13th St. off Land Park and Vallejo and 46th St. near Folsom Blvd and "M" St Saturdays: Harkness St. in old Land Park |    |
Full Belly Farm
This place is Utopia on a Stick. Ok, there's no stick. And it might not be Utopia to a rabid meat eater, but it's a pretty great place/service all the way around. My first introduction to Full Belly was their Hoes Down Festival, which left me so satisfied that I had not only a full belly, but brain, spirit and sachel of good stuff as well. You can live/work the farm, attend the annual festivals or get your produce delivered right to your Sacramento door. And in the heart of Capay Valley, it's like warm ghee melting in the crannies of a hot organic potato. All in all, it's a good-for-society kind of place and I like it very much!