Letters From Andy

The dry-farmed Early Girl tomatoes are coming on strong and they taste great. We will be offering them by the 20# crate for $50 or by the pint basket for $3 apiece.

A big “Thanks!” to our friends and neighbors at Corralitos’s own Jet & Rose Boutique for inviting our farm to their event this coming Saturday. Tomatoes, herbs, flowers, and other goodies. Come by the stand and visit us and the other vendors.

Thanks to Sesame Tiny Bakery for inviting us to their event. We’re excited to find another landing spot in the East Bay. We will have San Marzano tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, Early Girls, and maybe some Principe Borghese & Piennolo tomatoes by then.

Hello Tomato Lovers, flower people and friends we haven’t met yet: You’re invited to our first 2025 season pop-up sales events. We’re in Corralitos this weekend at the Jet & Rose Boutique from 11 am until we run out of tomatoes and flowers. Dry-Farmed Early Girls will be $50 for a 20# case, or for $3/pint basket. Cherry tomatoes will be $4/pint basket or 3 baskets for $10. San Marzano Tomatoes will be $60/20 lb case. We will also bring herbs, flowers, and other goodies from the earth.

No, we didn’t grow these blue roses. I saw them for sale on the street in the LA Flower District and figured they’d be great if I was going for a date with Wednesday Addams, but we weren’t able to get together. She’d probably prefer black roses anyway. Or dead ones… We only grow “un-dyed” flowers lol.

Our second pop-up will be at The Sesame Tiny Bakery on August 24th from 11am to 2 pm. The Bakery calls itself “A pocket sized bakery down a secret alley at 2533 Seventh Street in Berkeley.” Who doesn’t love being “in” on a secret? I’m looking forward to their pastries too. We will also be sharing this event with our friend, Chef Carlo of @linger___longer . It’s fun to be back in Berkeley and fun to work with Carlo again. He and I have worked together for many years in Santa Cruz, SF, and the East Bay! Thanks, Carlo, for being such a long time supporter of our farm, and thanks Sesame Tiny Bakery for inviting us to join you and your supporters.

I did visit Gather Flora LA, our partner in downtown LA who represents the naturally grown, un-dyed flowers we do produce. Thanks to the crew at Gather Flora for all your help and encouragement. Starr will be bringing lots of blooms to the pop-ups for local flower people.

I always enjoy visiting the flower market and learning what I can. Inside the market it was cool and “Christmas As Usual,” but….

As the season progresses we plan on scheduling pop-up events in Los Gatos, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and West Berkeley. We look forward to seeing you. As our sacramental marigold crop comes into focus we will announce a series of U-Pick Marigold events. Thanks, Starr & Andy

….out on the streets of downtown LA it was a perfect Rat Fink Christmas: hot and muggy with the threat of ICE hanging in the air. If you think the way that our government is treating agricultural workers- and lots of other folks- in this country is ok, fair, or even “Christian”, then please buy your tomatoes from someone else; I wouldn’t want you to choke as you swallow your own lies and ignorance.

Inside the flower market it was getting close to Christmas, but in our fields it’s still summer. We did find our first Galeaux d’Eysines pumpkin though.

Here is a Chilacayote blooming. We will have some huge Chilacayote gourds in the fall.

This is one of Starr’s favorite Dahlias. She will bring a wide spectrum of flowers.

If you appreciate Marigolds for Diwali or Dia de los Muertos we will be opening the farm up for a series of U-Pick events.

Starr and I do find time to relax from time to time. Earlier in the month we visited a cute little labyrinth at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. We modeled the labyrinth we built on the farm after the Chartres Cathedral Labyrinth, which is the same one that Grace was inspired by.

Here’s a drone’s eye view of our labyrinth on Mariquita Farm. It’s 110 feet across. You’re welcome to visit it during the U-Picks or other farm events. Keep an eye on the newsletter.

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The season’s first Cherry Tomatoes

Tulsi basil from India on the left, Genovese basil on the right

Napolitano basil, also known as “Lettuce Leaf basil”

Hi Friends: San Marzano, or “Saint Marcian” to English speakers, achieved notoriety within the Roman Empire as the first Bishop of Tortona. The historical record is blurry but Marzano was either crucified by Emperor Trajan in 117 AD or by Trajan’s successor, Hadrian, a few years later in 120 AD. Christian martyrdom earned Marzano his saintly status within the Roman Catholic Church but he achieved a wider immortality in the world of food. Tortona is near Genoa in the north of Italy. Genoa, of course, is famous in its own right because of their “Genovese” basil, said by some to be the ONLY appropriate basil for perfect pesto. Basil and tomatoes go together like cookies and milk, but the saintly, rmeaty, red, sausage-shaped sauce tomato doesn’t come from Marzano’s Bishopric but from the town of San Marzano sul Sarno in Campania, near Mt Vesuvius, in Southern Italy.Even if you’ve never tasted a ripe San Marzano tomato, you’ve likely seen an iconic image of the long, cylindrical tomato on the cans of imported tomato sauce stacked high in Italian delicatessens.

Piccolo Fino Verde basil. Piccolo means “tiny,” like the little flute. But this basil packs a huge scent!

Marzano could never have tasted his namesake tomato because Italians had to wait another 1400 years after his death for the Spanish Catholics to invade Mexico in 1519 AD and encounter all the miraculous crops that the native American farmers had developed. Even more time elapsed for these “New World” crops like tomatoes, peppers, cacao, corn, squash and beans to make their way back to Europe. Initially these “new” crops were regarded with suspicion; since none of them were mentioned in the Holy Bible it was feared that they were Satanic. It fell to any number of nameless Italian gardeners and cooks who weren’t overly concerned with the Theology of botany to convert these imported pagan crops into “Italian” food.

Greco a Palla basil, or Greek basil. No, the Greeks did not invent basil, but they made it their own.

Poor Marzano couldn’t have tasted authentic Genovese basil pesto either, because the basil plant was developed by SouthEast Asian farmers. Muslim spice traders would have been responsible for introducing basil into the Mediterranean and European cultures. The best pesto is an emulsion of basil leaves, lemon juice, olive oil, and pine nuts. Arab Muslims are responsible for introducing the lemon to Italy too. At least Italians can take credit for the pine nuts in their pesto which come from the native Italian Stone Pine, Pinus pinea. When we start our tomato pop-ups in August we will have a rainbow of basils on the table along with San Marzano tomatoes.

Purple basil growing next to other herbs on the farm. The pine in the background is a Torrey Pine. It would yield cones with fabulous pine nuts, but the tree squirrels get them all.

We will also have Piennolo tomatoes for sale. Piennolo tomatoes came to fame from the region around Mt. Vesuvius in Southern Italy, near Naples. Where the San Marzano tomato is big, long, and meaty, the Piennolo is small and a bit more acidic, with a more concentrated flavor. Piennolo tomatoes have gained fame because they will last a long time after harvest without spoiling. It became traditional for Neopolitan gardeners to hang the season’s last Piennolo plants from the rafters of their kitchens as winter approached, the wilting plants still laden with clusters of small, firm, green, pointed fruits. As the Piennolo’s foliage slowly dried the green, hard fruits would gradually ripen in the warmth of the kitchens so that the cooks could reach up overhead and pluck a few ripe, red tomatoes from the withered vines to flavor a salad or a sauce.

Opinions differ on what ingredients are appropriate in true basil pesto, but most folks allow lemon juice as the acid to balance the olive oil. We grow a wide range of citrus. These are Lisbon lemons.

We grow a lot of cut flowers along with the fruits and herbs. Need flowers for an event or gift?

This appealing narrative of ripe tomatoes for a hearty meal on a frosty night is fun and factual but it partly obscures the truth that Piennolo tomatoes are great all season long; you don’t have to wait until the late fall to enjoy them. Piennolos are a lovely tomato for eating fresh, for saucing, and for drying. We like to cut them in half, dehydrate them and then pack them tight in little jars that we fill with olive oil. Not only do the tomatoes taste great, the olive oil that has been steeped in the tomatoes is a revelation. Naples, where Piennolos found their fame, is also the home of “Napolitano Basil,” a very large-leaved, sweet basil that is excellent for salads, garnish, and for wrapping up little bites of food a la grape leaves or fig leaves. Also- don’t sue me- Napolitano basil is appreciated by some people as a good pesto basil.

Principe Borghese tomatoes are easy to confuse with Piennolo tomatoes because they are similar in size and shape to their Neopolitan cousins but we grow them anyway. I’m confused too because, while the Principe Borghese tomato became widely produced in Southern Italy in the early 1900s for the sun-dried tomato industry, the name refers to the famous Borghese clan from the Siena region north of Rome. The Borghese family is famous for creating politicians and popes, not tomato growers. We find that sun-drying any kind of tomato is almost impossible because our regular night time marine fog rehydrates the fruit that our midday sun just dehydrated. But with an electric dehydrator in our kitchen we can make lots of “sun-dried” tomatoes. If I had to make a distinction between the Principe Borghese and Piennolo tomatoes I’d say that the Borgheses are typically a bit juicier than the Piennolo, a bit more pointed at the tip, and that their harvest starts a bit earlier.And, speaking of “early,” we will again be harvesting our dry-farmed Early Girl tomatoes. I saw the first color in our 2025 Early Girl crop today, which is what prompts today’s note to you. The plants look healthy and loaded with fruit. Dry-farm practices assure a rich flavor. It works like this:

1.Transplant sturdy little tomato plants into moist soil in early spring. For us, that means a transplant date of around April 15th, when we no longer fear frost.

2. As the fields dry out from winter rains and the moisture levels retreat into the earth the tomato plant’s roots will follow the water down into the mineral zone below the topsoil.

3. The top soil may be the richest zone for the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, or the “NPK,” which are responsible for helping plants become big, green, and fluffy, the trace elements and micronutrients  found in the mineral subsoil are most helpful in giving flowers their color or fruits their flavor. True, dry-farmed plants grow more slowly and the fruit is typically smaller, but they make up for it by having a richer, more complex flavor. We also dry-farm our San Marzano, Piennolo, and Principe Borghese tomatoes. We have found that dry-farming also acts to reduce disease pressure and to reduce the power bills that come from running the irrigation pumps.

Dry farmed Early Girls on the left, Green Zebra tomatoes in the middle, and Black Prince tomatoes on the right.

We do occasionally irrigate some of our Heirloom tomato varieties, as they might have been developed in places that receive summer rains. Our 2025 crop of Heirlooms looks good at this point- a little late, perhaps, but still on track. As usual, the Purple Cherokee tomatoes will come first, followed by the red, yellow, and pink Brandywines, the Marvel Stripes, the orange Valencias, and the green Aunt Ruby’s German tomatoes.

Last, and smallest, but not least, we have a rainbow of cherry tomatoes coming your way, from the popular Sungold and Sweet 100s all the way through black, purple, and yellow varieties to the tiny, pea-sized wild cherry toms. It’s going to be a good year. Keep your eye on the newsletter for details of upcoming pop-ups and farm events. 

The farm is available as an event space for small weddings, elopements, team-building events, etc. These amaryllis are an event in and of themselves!

Keep an eye out for our 2025 season Marigold U-Pick events. Here the sky seems to be soaking up color from the flowers.

Also coming up at the pop-ups we will have Basilico Piccolo Fino, Purple Basil, Cinnamon Basil, Greco a Palla Basil, Thai Basil, Tulsi Basil, Oregano, Savory, Sweet Marjoram and Zaatar, or Syrian Marjoram.

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Our 2025 season’s first lavender harvest; Ellagance Purple Lavender. Other varieties of lavender will come into bloom as the season progresses.

Hi Friends: We at Mariquita Farm didn’t go anywhere, but we’re back, and we’ve been busy in our “off-season.” The potato crop is in the ground and the first vines are breaking the soil surface to find the sun. Our Otto File polenta corn stalks are already 6 inches tall, the tomatoes and peppers are being transplanted into their beds as I write, and more herbal, floral and vegetable crops are being sown in the greenhouse and fields. The roses are blooming, lavender is budding, bees are buzzing, and the citrus trees are heavy with fruit. We are growing the crops and creating the gardens for you. Here is a brief sketch of the events that we are planning for the year:

World Labyrinth Day:

Join us for a guided walk in our eleven circuit Labyrinthine path through hedges of English, Spanish and French lavender. We’re celebrating World Labyrinth Day, where people around the globe will be participating in a walking meditation for World Peace that rolls through the time zones- “Walk as One at 1”. Sunny or cloudy, the day will be beautiful and the flower power of the thousands of lavender plants will be strong!

Our Day includes a walk with farm owners Starr Linden & Andy Griffin through the flower gardens that embrace the Lavender Labyrinth where we will stop to smell the roses. They’ve planted 200 Rose Bushes over the last three years, and some of them will be in full bloom. Learn about the different kinds of roses that exist, from the ancient China roses to the highly scented European heirlooms like the Gallica, Bourbon, and Damascus roses. We have modern Hybrid Tea roses planted out, and hardy Rugosa roses, Wild roses, climbers, miniatures, and even the sprawling heirlooms that are climbing tall pines.

I just finished getting our crop of Otto File polenta corn into the ground when I took this picture. Otto File is an heirloom Italian corn variety appreciated for the high quality cornmeal it can produce. We also grow Oaxacan Green corn and a lovely red dent corn.

Summer Solstice Self Care  Day:

Join us at Mariquita Farm where you can relax and enjoy the countryside.  You can explore the gardens filled with flowers, while looking out at hillsides  covered in citrus and roses. Indulge yourself in  a variety of self-care offerings while celebrating the Summer solstice with us! We will be joined by several event guides and practitioners that will provide you with a taste of their art and profession.

Offerings include:

• Facial Massage Session
• Acupuncture Points for Stress
• 15 Minute Channeling Session
• Labyrinth Walk
• Sound Bowl Meditation

Can you find the cat in this photo? It was a warm day and she found respite from the sun by snoozing in the shade of the fava beans.

We grow over 200 roses for fun, for the petals which we sell fresh or dried, and for the bees. This is “Mr. Lincoln,” about to bloom.

Lavender U-Picks/ Herb U-Picks TBA: Follow the website and this newsletter for updates. We’ve got many varieties of basil and other herbs in the ground and we will be offering U-Pick opportunities for cooks & crafters.

Pop – Up Sales with our tomatoes, flowers, fruits, herbs, and other vegetables. TBA as the harvests allow.

Besides our public events we do open the farm and host events for groups and individuals; painting clubs, blessing ways, staff parties, and fund-raising dinners and picnics have all been on the calendar. Let us know if you have an event in mind that would benefit from a beautiful, peaceful rural surroundings with an out-door kitchen, a handy labyrinth and a lot of flowers! Starr does flowers for events and weddings too. Let us know.

Starr coming down the drive with a cart full of flowers for our friends at GatherFloraLA the LA Flower Market. We ship to LA weekly and serve local folks too.

A recent drone shot of the labyrinth.

I took a walk in the forest with the cat, Samson.

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Our 2025 season’s first lavender harvest; Ellagance Purple Lavender. Other varieties of lavender will come into bloom as the season progresses.

Hi Friends: We at Mariquita Farm didn’t go anywhere, but we’re back, and we’ve been busy in our “off-season.” The potato crop is in the ground and the first vines are breaking the soil surface to find the sun. Our Otto File polenta corn stalks are already 6 inches tall, the tomatoes and peppers are being transplanted into their beds as I write, and more herbal, floral and vegetable crops are being sown in the greenhouse and fields. The roses are blooming, lavender is budding, bees are buzzing, and the citrus trees are heavy with fruit. We are growing the crops and creating the gardens for you. Here is a brief sketch of the events that we are planning for the year:

World Labyrinth Day:

Join us for a guided walk in our eleven circuit Labyrinthine path through hedges of English, Spanish and French lavender. We’re celebrating World Labyrinth Day, where people around the globe will be participating in a walking meditation for World Peace that rolls through the time zones- “Walk as One at 1”. Sunny or cloudy, the day will be beautiful and the flower power of the thousands of lavender plants will be strong!

Our Day includes a walk with farm owners Starr Linden & Andy Griffin through the flower gardens that embrace the Lavender Labyrinth where we will stop to smell the roses. They’ve planted 200 Rose Bushes over the last three years, and some of them will be in full bloom. Learn about the different kinds of roses that exist, from the ancient China roses to the highly scented European heirlooms like the Gallica, Bourbon, and Damascus roses. We have modern Hybrid Tea roses planted out, and hardy Rugosa roses, Wild roses, climbers, miniatures, and even the sprawling heirlooms that are climbing tall pines.

I just finished getting our crop of Otto File polenta corn into the ground when I took this picture. Otto File is an heirloom Italian corn variety appreciated for the high quality cornmeal it can produce. We also grow Oaxacan Green corn and a lovely red dent corn.

Summer Solstice Self Care  Day:

Join us at Mariquita Farm where you can relax and enjoy the countryside.  You can explore the gardens filled with flowers, while looking out at hillsides  covered in citrus and roses. Indulge yourself in  a variety of self-care offerings while celebrating the Summer solstice with us! We will be joined by several event guides and practitioners that will provide you with a taste of their art and profession.

Offerings include:

• Facial Massage Session
• Acupuncture Points for Stress
• 15 Minute Channeling Session
• Labyrinth Walk
• Sound Bowl Meditation

Can you find the cat in this photo? It was a warm day and she found respite from the sun by snoozing in the shade of the fava beans.

We grow over 200 roses for fun, for the petals which we sell fresh or dried, and for the bees. This is “Mr. Lincoln,” about to bloom.

Lavender U-Picks/ Herb U-Picks TBA: Follow the website and this newsletter for updates. We’ve got many varieties of basil and other herbs in the ground and we will be offering U-Pick opportunities for cooks & crafters.

Pop – Up Sales with our tomatoes, flowers, fruits, herbs, and other vegetables. TBA as the harvests allow.

Besides our public events we do open the farm and host events for groups and individuals; painting clubs, blessing ways, staff parties, and fund-raising dinners and picnics have all been on the calendar. Let us know if you have an event in mind that would benefit from a beautiful, peaceful rural surroundings with an out-door kitchen, a handy labyrinth and a lot of flowers! Starr does flowers for events and weddings too. Let us know.

Starr coming down the drive with a cart full of flowers for our friends at GatherFloraLA the LA Flower Market. We ship to LA weekly and serve local folks too.

A recent drone shot of the labyrinth.

I took a walk in the forest with the cat, Samson.

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Calendula officinalis, the “official” marigold, here pictured growing in our gardens in the spring. This is the preferred herbal variety. We have another, smaller, weedier form that is just as pretty but has smaller blooms. These are “Mary’s Quarters,” so to speak; the weedy forms are more like “Mary’s Pennies.”

Hi All: There’s gold, there’s “fool’s gold,” and then there is “Mary’s Gold.” As I sit down to write you a brief note, I see that gold is trading today at $2742.8 per ounce. We have a lot of “gold,” on the farm, but not this metallic, shiny, valuable kind, so I don’t usually pay much attention to price fluctuations in the precious metals markets.

“Fools gold,” or Pyrite, is a metallic, flakey, mineral that glitters and flashes in the pan. If you find yourself prospecting up along the American River in the Gold Country you might strike “Fool’s Gold.  Pyrite isn’t real gold, but”Fools’ Gold” may not just be for fools any longer. Pyrites can contain lithium, which is a material that is increasingly useful (and valuable) to the renewable energy markets for the production of lithium batteries. I don’t have any fool’s gold either. But I’m rich in “Mary’s Gold.” I’ve got lots of marigolds!

Before Mary was born, met Joseph, or talked to Angels, “marigolds” were known to Romans as “Calendulas,” which means “little calendars” in Latin. With its brilliant orange and yellow flowers, the Calendula was much esteemed in the Old World for its putative medicinal properties and its use as an ornamental and culinary plant. A Calendula’s golden petals can be plucked from the flower head and used to color food as a “Poor Man’s Saffron. ” The plant was historically treated as a “pot-herb,” and it found its way into soup pots AND into witches cauldrons. Some people alleged that drinking calendula tea would enable the seeker to see fairies.  And across South Asia, the Calendula’s bright orange wintertime blossoms were appreciated since ancient times and used to decorate shrines and honor the gods.

Even when the old, Pagan ways of doing things were upended across Europe by the moral demands of the new, upstart Christian religion, the calendula managed to hold on to its honored place in spiritual botany. Mary, the virgin Mother of Jesus, took on relevance as a cosmic Earth Mother in the new world order. The iconic, celestial blue cloak that Mary wears in so many statues and images represents the heavens that envelopes us all in its starry veil. And, just to bring things back down to earth, the story I heard is that as Mary walks the earth, bringing relief to the suffering, weary people who have faith in her love, marigold plants are sown in the soil by her footsteps. When calendulas sprout and bloom with the winter time rains  Mary’s tracks are carpeted with orange, daisy-like, calendula blossoms- her heavenly “coins,” so to speak, that spring from the earth, year after year.

It seems incomprehensible, but these Cempasuchil marigolds, Tagetes erecta, an inheritance from ancient Mexico, are often called “African Marigolds.” No! The Africans invented mathematics, coffee, AND the Blues, but the Mexicans have this marigold to their credit.

I flatter myself to think that Mariquita farm has been visited many times by the Cosmic Earth Mother, because our fields are practically plagued with wild marigolds every spring. It’s pretty to see the green grasses dotted with Mary’s gold but there can be so many wild calendulas popping up that they have to be hoed out for our crops to thrive.  When the Spaniards invaded the Americas they brought their arts, their guns, their religion, their livestock, their diseases, and their weeds with them. Some botanists would suggest that the hooked, burr-like seed of the calendula came into California as “stickers” in the tails of Spanish Cattle, but that’s “BS;” lol. I’m going with the Calendula’s presence in our fields as a seasonal manifestation  and reminder of a visitation from Mary,  Jesus’s mom and the Queen of Heaven and Mexico. forThe wild calendulas on our farm are very happy growing throughout Central California’s mild, coastal climate; it’s just like the Mediterranean conditions that they originally evolved in. 

Small farms that produce vegetables for local markets are called “truck farms.” Here’s our truck. I recently gave her a new paint job so that she wouldn’t feel out of place among all the colorful fruits, vegetables, and flowers that we grow.

The Spanish didn’t only take America’s gold bullion back to Europe. Besides gold, the Americas were rich in native crops previously unknown to Europeans.  Besides corn, squash, beans, chilies, tomatoes, potatoes, and sunflowers, America’s first peoples developed both chocolate AND vanilla! And the so-called  ‘African marigold.'” From Central Mexico down through Central America indigenous religious shrines were decorated with dazzling gold, aromatic, Cempesuchil flowers. It didn’t take long for Spain’s spiritual caste to accept the cempasuchil as a New World “marigold,’ and to employ its orange blooms  in festivals like “El Dia de Los Muertos.”  And for their part, Spain’s merchants were quick to export these “new” marigolds to Asia, along with the cargoes of stolen gold that they were using to buy the spices of the Indies. The cempasuchil promptly found favor in India as a bold, richly-scented alternative to the old-school calendula marigold. India’s warm, humid, climate proved to be a hospitable environment for the cempasuchil and soon its gold flowers were cultivated on an industrial scale to serve and ornament religious holidays like Diwali. 

We will be getting our wood-fired oven stoked up for our Day of The Dead celebration with the Jack O’Neil restaurant.

Just as Central California’s moist, mild winter is amenable to calendula marigolds, so our summers are perfect for growing cempasuchil marigolds. On Mariquita Farm we grow a variety of cempasuchil called “Chedi Orange,” which is a tall, sturdy variety with a flower exactly the same color of orange as a Vietnamese Buddhist Monk’s robes are. We aim to harvest flowers in time for both Dia De Los Muertos and Diwali. These two Holy Days usually fall around the same time of year, so for us, if I can get tiny marigold transplants into the ground by July 25th, I’ll have a nice crop by Halloween that’ll last through Diwali. When the field is in full bloom the effect is spectacular. We pick the flowers to sell either by the bunch or loose, by the 100 count of bagged blossoms, for garlands. It’s been fun to learn my way around this crop, and it’s a joy to be out in the middle of the flowers. We may not have any gold to spare, or even any fool’s gold, but we are the Mother Lode of Marigold! Come see for yourself! We are offering what I believe to be California’s ONLY marigold U-Pick! See the details on the events page of our website, mariquita.com.

The pumpkins are getting ready for their big day!

If you feel more about experiencing the marigolds without having to work you are invited to the Day of The Dead Celebration that we are hosting with our friends from the Jack O’ Neil Restaurant at the Dream Inn in Santa Cruz. Chef Gus has been supporting the farm for a number of years now. He and his team will be preparing a meal that reflects both his kitchen’s seasonal, our farm to your table philosophy as well as the traditional Mexican flavors of this colorful and evocative festival. Come help us compose a floral ofrenda that pays respect to those loved ones who have passed on.

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