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Apple Recipes Mariquita Farm A family farm featuring a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program for Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz County.

p.s. we're putting the wonderful, fresh celery in Meriquita Farm's Mystery Box to good use ;-)

Fall tomato canning (tomatoes from Meriquita Farms)! Our supply of pizza and pasta sauce for the winter being done right now.

http://theheirloomexpo.com/happenings/exhibits/

Exhibits- The National Heirloom Exposition LLC – The Heirloom Vegetable and Seed Fair The World's Pure Food Fair

Organic Dairy Farmer Albert Straus Speaks Out Against USDA’s Decision on GMO Alfalfa
www.fooddemocracynow.org

Food Democracy Now If you haven't seen the definitive cult classic documentary film on GMOs, The Future of Food, check it out! Are we "in" the future of now? Let us know what you think: [email protected].

http://www.mariquita.com/csa/CSA.newsletter.sign.up.html

Our favorite farm has a new weekly recipe newsletter!

Our weekend breakfasts have gotten much more local since we got the Tartine Bread cookbook for xmas. Today we had homemade country wheat bread toast with homemade cranberry quick jam and some homemade maple, almonds and cranberry granola drizzled with some straight from the farm honey.

The berries would also be perfect for making strawberry wine. Scott has a great recipe in the Strong Waters book.
http://www.amazon.com/Strong-Waters-Simple-Spirited-Beverages/dp/1615190104

Strong Waters: A Simple Guide to Making Beer, Wine, Cider and Other Spirited Beverages at Home Discover the Many Rewards of Homemade Spirits—Unique, Flavorful, Economical and Surprisingly Easy to Make! Today’s renewed interest in making wine and beer at home amounts to nothing less than a renaissance. No matter why you want to join the new generation of homebrewers—to compleme...

If you're up for making jam this weekend, Mariquita Farms's Ladybug Buying Club flats of fresh picked, organic ripe strawberries! Order now- pick up is tomorrow!
http://www.mariquita.com/events/BuyingClub.html

Ladybug Buying Club I'll have 3 things: all listed below. to make an order, EMAIL ME: pre orders only. I will send back a confirmation with the exact address, my cell phone number, and other details.

Enjoying Rebecca's amazing handmade sheeps milk yogurt. Delicious!
http://ardigasna.blogspot.com/

Ardi Gasna Ardi Gasna is the Basque phrase for sheep cheese. This blog is the culmination of my vacation/adventure/fact-finding misssion in the Basque country of France and Spain with my friend Yvonne, and a chronicle of my journey in starting a sheep dairy farm on the Central Coast of Califronia.

Mariquita Farms's Ladybug Buying Club has boxes of navel oranges! Check their website for ording and pick up information. (the citus party boxes are sold out, but it looks like they still have the navels) http://www.mariquita.com/events/BuyingClub.html

Ladybug Buying Club ~ Citrus Party Boxes: $30/15 #. SOLD OUT... will likely include navel oranges, ruby red grapefruit, blood oranges, tangelos, and a few meyer lemons. Eat/juice them all, share with a friend, or go to the farmers market: no smaller increments please. ...

Our good friend Scott Mansfield (author of the just released Strong Waters) is teaching a DIY Mixology class at Workshop this weekend. Learn how make Limoncello, Atholl Brose, and Absinthe Infusions. And the best part is you get to go home with samples! http://www.workshopsf.org/?page_id=140&id=136&date=2010-03-06

Detail Classes « workshop how do you really expect to get anyone over to your place for pre-game when all you have to offer is a sixer of Keystone and half a pint of Sauza that was in the pantry when you moved in? infusions! that’s ...