This holiday season, make your gifts count. When you buy directly from local and regional farms, you help build resilience in our farming community, providing more economic stability and food security for our future. And you will be giving out unique and delicious gifts that your friends and family will really appreciate!
For example, gift a beautiful kit of locally grown dried flower wreaths to those who love crafts, or a soothing skincare crafted from local goat’s milk as a personal care gift. Pick up a delicious grass-raised smoked ham for holiday gatherings, a gift card for a local farm stand, or a mushroom grow kit. You can also gift a subscription to CSA, providing weekly deliveries of fresh local vegetables or bouquets of flowers to your friends and family.
A recent assessment by the Nevada County Food Policy Council shows that for every dollar you spend buying from your local farmer or rancher, an additional $ 0.48 circulates through the local economy, helping to create jobs and make our community a more resistant to external economic forces. . Shop with a cause this season and show you care with a gift from local farming! Take a look at these local farms online or visit Sierra Harvest’s Christmas Farm Guide for some fun and delicious ideas for everyone on your list: https://sierraharvest.org/2021-gifts/
AM Ranch
Choose from a variety of delicious pasture-raised beef and pork, with traditional options like tri-tip, chuck roast and smoked ham, as well as specialty items like apple fennel sausage, garlic ginger beef sausage, and roast beef. Shop the online store and pick up your picks at the ranch in Penn Valley.
Bell Farm Dinner
Give the gift of kindness this holiday season. Dinner Bell Farm brings weekly bouquets to Hospice of the Foothills from June through September. Support this program in honor of a loved one or as a unique gift that brings joy to the lives of the most vulnerable members of our community. https://dinnerbellfarm.com/
Foothill Roots Farm
A great gift option for those living in South County, Foothill Roots offers weekly CSA servings of freshly baked vegetables, fruits and bread year-round. https://foothillrootsfarm.com/
Organic Farm Fresh Starts
Gift Certificates for Certified Organic Vegetables, Herbs, Flowers and Perennials, in any amount over $ 12. Available by mail, email or for pickup at the farm. Certificates can be redeemed only at the farm, until October 1, 2022. Call 530-478-0800.
Mountain Bounty Farm
Located along the Yuba River near Nevada City, Mountain Bounty grows a wide variety of exceptional organic produce for our local community. Mountain Bounty Farm partners with other organic farms to offer CSA stocks of vegetables, fruits, flowers and mushrooms, some seasonally and some year-round. Pickup locations include Grass Valley, Nevada City, Penn Valley, North San Juan Ridge, Truckee, Tahoe, and Reno. https://mountainbountyfarm.com/
MushBarn
Looking for an interactive gift? Submit a Farm on Table to grow your own MushBarn Mushroom Kit. From mushroom jerky to medicinal tinctures, this local mushroom farm has a host of unique gift options. Find them at the Nevada City Farmers Market or shop online at https://www.mushbarn.com/shop
Nightingale Farm
Nightingale Farms is dedicated to producing the best products using sustainable agricultural practices, low population density, and quality care for our animals. We take milk directly from our goats and use it to create the freshest goat’s milk soaps and lotions you will ever use. We also carry many other fresh and natural skin care products. Buy farm-to-body produce for the whole family at and have them delivered or picked up locally at the farm at https://www.nightingalefarms.net/
Seed and harvest
Seed & Gather is a small farm located on the outskirts of Nevada City that focuses on growing flowers and vegetables and then turning them into “handcrafted” products such as dried flower crown kits and body butter made with oils infused with flowers. Nationwide shipping is available, as is local pickup in downtown Grass Valley. Visit https://www.seedandgather.com/
Sierra Harvest’s Food Love Farm
Give away Food Love Farm this holiday season! Gift certificates can also be used for Food Love Camp, workshops, or weekly organic farm booths June through October, located about five minutes from Nevada City. Visit https://sierraharvest.org/
Soil Sisters Farm
Soil Sisters offers everlasting bouquets as well as CSA subscriptions for fresh flowers in Nevada City. Also, check out their 2022 Luscious Farm Calendar, with beautiful photos showing Nevada County farmers and their products. Flowers and calendars can be mailed, picked up at the Nevada City Farmers Market, or delivered. Gift cards also available! Visit https://soilsisters.org/
Starbright Acres Family Farm
A Starbright Acres CSA membership for the 2022 season is a wonderful holiday gift that you will give your loved ones fresh seasonal produce to show that you care about their health and the well-being of our community. For every CSA purchased, Starbright donates $ 50 to the local charity of their choice. You can also give away farm credit in any amount, valid for produce at your farm stand and at the farmers market stand. Visit https://www.starbrightacresfarm.com/
Sunset Ridge Fine Fruits
Organic tangerines shipped nationwide, send family and friends a healthy gift this holiday season. We can include a personal note from you to your friends. U-pick on the farm also available. Visit https://www.gotmandarins.com/
Rachel Berry is Associate Director of Sierra Harvest
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