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The Best Summer Corn and Tomato Pizza Recipe

This Summer Corn and Tomato Pizza from the Pizza Party Card Deck is bursting with roasted corn, fresh basil, and sun-ripened cherry tomatoes. It's basically California summer on a...

A Simple Sweet Potato and Kale Salad Recipe

If you have been sleeping on kale salad, this is your wake-up call. Not the sad, chewy, vaguely bitter salad you may have endured at a wedding buffet. This is the best kale salad recipe you are...

Spend Saturday Morning at Soil Born Farms

At Soil Born Farms, your new morning obsession is the CA GROWN specials at Phoebe’s Café - a Saturday morning farm-to-fork eatery.   Sacramento is proud to be America's Farm-to-Fork...

Kimball Ranch: California Avocados, Straight From the Source

If you’re a fan of California avocados - and honestly, who isn’t - it’s time to discover Kimball Ranch. Grown in Ventura County’s rocky hillsides and lavished with California sunshine,...

California Apple Commission: Supporting California’s Apple Industry 

California is the fifth-largest producer of apples in the United States, and the California Apple Commission represents apple growers and handlers statewide. We met with Michelle Borges, Director of...

What is the California Avocado Commission?

California is home to more than 400 specialty crops, many of which are supported by commodity boards. These boards help to educate consumers and to advocate for farmers. We met with Rachael Laenen,...

Creative Cheese Board Ideas with Real California Cheese

Struggling to come up with creative cheese board ideas for your delicious Real California cheese? We’ve got all the info you need - and plenty of stunning inspiration, too!  There’s no...

Paradise Pantry: Ventura’s Ultimate Farm-to-Fork Experience

Ventura’s ultimate farm-to-fork experience is at Paradise Pantry  - a place where guests can explore regional, seasonal flavors before stocking up on local wines and cheeses to enjoy at...

At Rancho San Julian, Elizabeth Poett’s Table Begins With the Land

At Rancho San Julian on California’s Central Coast, there are beehives to monitor, cattle to check, fences to mend, horses to feed, dry-farmed crops to watch, orchards to harvest, meals to prepare...

Prancer’s Farm – Where Farm Fun Meets Farm Work

At Prancer’s Farm in Santa Paula, agriculture is not something visitors observe from a distance. It is something they walk through, pick from, taste, touch, smell and, sometimes, carry home still...

A Season Worth Waiting For at Friends Ranches: Emily Ayala and the Citrus Soul of Ojai

At  Friends Ranches in Ojai, where tangerines thrive, sweetness has a season. It starts sometime in March, when the days begin to warm but the evenings still carry a coastal chill, and...

Preserve Restaurant in Winters is Redefining Seasonal Eating

Preserve Restaurant in Winters, California, has turned the farm-to-table food scene on its head by embracing the age-old art of food preservation. You've probably heard the saying, "Everything old...

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