A beautiful salad mix. Produce abounds in California during the dead of winter!

Over the past few weeks of our stay in Petaluma we have had the wonderful opportunity to tour several local, organic and sustainable farms in the surrounding area. It has been wonderful to meet so many interesting people and take a walk in their shoes, so to speak. We toured Terra Firma farm last week and enjoyed learning about their operation; we were also invited to Skywalker Ranch and the gardener gave us an inside look at this amazing property closed to the general public. We also visited Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in Occidental, California where Sasha was thrilled to eat fresh Romanesco Cauliflower right out of their garden. (I think she misses our home garden about as much as we do!) We also visited Laguna Farms, which is the largest CSA in the area.

San Rafael Farmer's Market

In between our farm tours, we have been hitting every farmer’s market in the area that we can. We love to go to San Rafael’s Sunday market. There are hundreds of vendors with fresh produce, flowers, plants, bread and hand made items as well. The citrus has been wonderful as well as all the leafy greens. We love all the fresh winter produce (we long for it at home in snowy Missouri) and the wonderful atmosphere at this local market.

Mouth-watering citrus