You Are Invited To Our Corralitos & Berkeley Pop-Ups

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.

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.

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….

….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.