From Farm to Fork

Farm to Fork Tour: Sunday, September 26th in Pescadero
Get your tickets now!

Join us for a delicious meal at Gather Restaurant in Berkeley and then travel to the beautiful coastal area near Pescadero to learn how local sustainable farmers care for the land, while bringing food to your table. We'll enjoy a delicious boxed lunch from Gather Restaurant and enjoy the bounty of the autumn harvest. We'll be sure to stop by the beach along the way.

Step aboard! Peruse virtual tour & discover what a Farm to Fork tour day might look like. (Photos by Erin Robinson)

Breakfast
Gather Restaurant is designed to inspire the food world to new levels of sustainability. Gather serves seasonal food, carefully sourced and thoughtfully prepared to appeal equally to vegetarians and omnivores, as well as creative organic cocktails and biodynamic wines. The restaurant was created from beautiful reclaimed wood and natural materials.

Panel presentation during breakfast

• Executive Chef, Sean Baker: Sean expresses the true poetry of the local Northern California landscape through the food he creates. With experience that spans a sous chef position at Millennium under famed vegan chef Eric Tucker to turning Santa Cruz’s Gabriella Café into a Zagat’s Top Italian Restaurant in the Nation, Sean considers farmers and ranchers the unsung heroes of our local economy.

• Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF): CAFF advocates for California family farmers and sustainable agriculture. Their mission is to build a movement of rural and urban people to foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies and promotes social justice.
  

• Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE): SAGE is a pioneer in connecting rural and urban interests for their mutual benefit. SAGE develops projects and participates in collaborations to support sustainable regional food and agriculture.

• Berkeley Student Food Collective: The mission of the Berkeley Student Food Collective is to provide fresh, local, healthy, environmentally sustainable, and ethically produced food at affordable prices to the Berkeley campus and greater community.

Devil's Gulch Vineyard

The Farms and Farmers:

• Devil’s Gulch Ranch- Mark Pasternak, Owner
  A diversified family farm located in Nicasio, Marin County, owned by Mark Pasternak and Myriam Kaplan-Pasternak, DVM, since 1971. They grow premium wine grapes and asparagus, raised rabbits, pigs, sheep, and quail for retail customers and direct sales to high-quality restaurants. Sustainable, humane agricultural practices and organic farming are utilized whenever possible.
  They also breed performance quarter horses, are involved in international agricultural development projects, and offer educational programs at Devil's Gulch Ranch, which teach a variety of agricultural and traditional skills.

• Corda Ranch- Gary Corda, Owner
  Fifth generation local farmer Gary will jump on the bus with us and share stories from his family history, the farm’s history and how he envisions the possibilities for his ranch in the future. We’ll stop by the ranch as well. The Corda Ranch is used for grazing beef cattle and dairy heifers, and 160 acres are used to grow hay. Over the past three years, 50 acres of vineyard have been planted with six varieties of wine grapes.

• County Line Harvest- David Retsky, Farmer
  

  Established in 2000 on a ranch that was right on the Sonoma-Marin county line (hence the name), this 35-acre certified organic farm in year-round production specializes in greens - from several varieties of lettuce and other specialty greens, to hearty braising greens, to hard-to-find varieties of Italian chicories. They also grow tomatoes, strawberries, basil, onions, beets, fennel, various herbs and edible flowers, among many others!

  Since then, the farm has moved only a few miles west to Red Hill Ranch whose recent purchase by Marin Agricultural Land Trust will forever preserve the 600-acre ranch for agricultural use.
  County Line Harvest has been certified organic by Marin Organic Certified Agriculture since 2002 and continues its dedication to providing the community with fresh, organically grown produce.