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    4.8 (6 reviews)

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    Oven Roasted Padron Peppers & Brussels Sprouts with Black Garlic Aioli
    Kathleen S.

    I had been in San Francisco and visited one of my favorite sites; The Ferry Building. There, you will find a cadre of incredible vendors selling the most delicious and wonderful wares. One of my favorites there is Far West Fungi. It is a merchant who sells a wonderful selection of fresh and dried mushrooms along with other related items. It was there that I purchased my head of black garlic. Black garlic is sweet meets savory, a perfect mix of molasses-like richness and tangy garlic undertones. It has a tender, almost jelly-like texture with a melt-in-your-mouth consistency similar to a soft dried fruit. I have also purchased their wonderful mushrooms and truffle oil. Everything has been excellent! I have made a couple recipes with their mushrooms and the black garlic that I purchased there.

    Entering the farm in Moss Landing.

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    Gizdich Ranch

    Gizdich Ranch

    4.3
    (904 reviews)
    7.7 mi
    $$

    Doing U-pick is fun: rounded up for the fun factor. The fruit is not organic. In case you want to…read moreeat the U-pick fruit on the spot: Bring a basket with holes in the bottom, and bottled water, so that you can rinse the fruit before eating. The lineup: 5/5: U-pick boysenberries: June 4: Blenheim apricots, June: $3.70/pound. About 70% were ripe. 3: Dutch apple pie. Kind of meh. 3: Strawberry shortcake. Bring your own maple syrup and pour some on top; it needs some sweetness. 2: Cherry pie. Kinda meh. For boysenberries, consider wearing latex gloves to keep your hands from getting stained red.

    Every now and then, during strawberry season, we pop into Gizdich Ranch, seeking out a Strawberry…read morePie like one that we got about 8 years ago. While we didn't see it listed on the menu board, when my wife asked the order taker, she knew exactly what we wanted and told her that the wait would be 15 minutes as they made them to order. OMG, it was beautiful! Loaded with fresh strawberries and just enough glaze to bind it, the glaze did not overwhelm the taste of the strawberries. You can't really slice it as created. Instead, you pick off some of the fruit on top until it's down to a manageable height and then we use a large spoon to parse it out. Whipped cream? Ice cream? Both would be excellent accompaniments to be sure, but we used neither.

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    Dutch apple pie a la mode
    Dutch apple pie a la mode
    Strawberry Shortcake
    Strawberry Shortcake
    Dew dropped apples

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    Dew dropped apples
    High Ground Organics

    High Ground Organics

    4.3
    (17 reviews)
    3.4 mi
    $

    Nice place for blueberry u-pick. Bring tick repellent and wear proper clothes. Website doesn't…read moremention it, only an email we didn't read until on the way to site did, so I didn't have right clothes or repellent. Ended up with three ticks and one tick bite. Site doesn't offer any bug spray, but maybe should? As far as Covid safety, only thing is a reservation system which limits attendees. About 8-9 rows so plenty of space to spread out, but it's self regulated. Some parents corral their Children and others don't so you're at mercy of others, or have to speak up. We also got chased down rows by an oblivious sneezing and coughing man who prob had allergies and wore a mask... No one from farm is monitoring people once in. No questions or temp checks for admittance, though email prob asks that you mind it. Also: expensive! Expect to pay about $20-25/gallon baggie, which holds about 3-4 pounds. Blueberries are delish. Ticks are not so be prepared.

    I can't tell you how delicious High Ground's produce is. I labor under the happy delusion that I am…read morea good cook because my vegetables are always so tasty. When Two Small Farms reorganized, I stuck with my usual pickup spot, which went to High Ground Organics. I was a little nervous. I'd been getting Mariquita Mystery Boxes all winter, so I knew that I liked what Mariquita alone produces. But what about High Ground? My worries were for nothing. The produce is as high quality and varied as I could have hoped.

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    Farmers Steve and Jeanne
    Farmers Steve and Jeanne
    Harvest Fair
    Harvest Fair
    Broccoli Romanesco takes the prize for coolest vegetable!

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    Broccoli Romanesco takes the prize for coolest vegetable!
    Real Good Fish

    Real Good Fish

    4.4
    (104 reviews)
    3.8 mi
    $$

    Seafood is excellent. Delivery is not the best, their contracted delivery service left our last…read morepackage at the driveway, ending up in the hot sun instead of bringing to the front door.

    I meant to update this review, but forgot. In my previous review, I mentioned that I was keeping my…read moresubscription despite the decline in variety and service because I had purchased bulk king salmon which supposedly they were keeping in storage for me, and I was requesting deliveries of several fillets every couple of months. In March 2024, I received an email saying that they needed to clear out their bulk storage, and I had the option of receiving all of my salmon at once, or with each regular delivery until it's all gone. I was to reply within a week or the remainder of my supply would be donated. I replied saying sure, send some of it with each regular delivery, to which they replied: "Unfortunately, the season has been closed since last year but, we can definitely send Sockeye or Coho salmon instead." Turns out even though I paid for king salmon AND they claimed that they still had it and needed to clear out storage, they actually didn't have the amount all of their members had pre-purchased in storage, due to "quality concerns" beyond a certain period. Which they NEVER gave me any heads up about until this point. So when their email went out, the first handful of people to reply got the rest of the king salmon, and they wanted me to accept a different variety instead. A couple of months and over a dozen emails later, I finally received a refund for the rest of the salmon I thought I had bought. I'm very disappointed in how this situation was handled. While I see that they now explain the terms more clearly for their bulk sales, with the prioritization of ad-hoc sales over regular subscriptions for product variety and quality, I don't see the value of this service anymore compared to buying fish from my local farmer's market.

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    Picking up some fish after a surf session
    Picking up some fish after a surf session
    Jicama Salsa and Pesto over Local King Salmon
    Jicama Salsa and Pesto over Local King Salmon
    Ridgeback shrimp from Real Good Fish.

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    Ridgeback shrimp from Real Good Fish.
    Nunez Farm

    Nunez Farm

    3.8
    (5 reviews)
    4.7 mi
    $$

    We saw signs and had to make a pit stop for local fresh strawberries! They also have a selection of…read morefresh produce as well!

    Peter Piper picked a peck of purple peppers…read more Wait? What did Peter Piper pick? Purple peppers? I kid you not! Okay, maybe it wasn't Peter Piper who picked them, but he could have had he visited the Nunez Farm. It's a fact that purple bell peppers have been around since the mid-80's, but this was the first time I've ever walked upon rows upon rows of them in a field. The purple bell peppers are just one of the crops being harvested at Guillebaldo Nunez' vegetable farm in Watsonville. Artichokes Basil Bell Peppers (Green) Broccoli Butter Lettuce Cabbage (Green) Carrots Celery Collard Greens Fennel Heirloom Tomatoes Kale (Green) Leeks Pink Swiss Chard Potatoes Purple Kale Puple Thai Basil Rainbow Swiss Chard Red Beets Red Cabbage Red Lettuce Swiss Chard White Corn Yellow Swiss Chard Zucchini That's just a fraction of the crops being grown on the Nunez Farm, and it's all organic! That's right! Pesticide and chemical free! When our bus driver missed his turn Guillebaldo jumped into his truck and drove out to the main road to escort our bus into his farm. We were there for the last stop on on our education-filled farm tour. The Nunez Farm is incredible in size, and all of the crops are sold in farmers markets throughout Northern California and at Whole Foods stores under the brand "ALBA Organics". Guillebaldo walked us out to his fields to show us the rainbow of Swiss chards that he has planted. Green, orange, yellow, red, pink - just a variety of colors. I had never seen the yellow ones before and I was fascinated by them. On the same field were green and purple kale. I'd never had kale before and sampled some right there as a leaf was pulled off a plant and passed around to sample. We learned about the nutritious aspect of the kale as well as planting techniques and even ways to cook them. On the opposite side of the field were rows upon row of gigantic heirloom tomatoes hanging on thin sturdy vines. We were told that the fruits had just been picked that morning, but Guillebaldo told us that if we found any other ripe ones in there we were welcomed to pick it. Some of our group got really lucky when Guillebaldo found a whole plant unpicked. I missed out as I had stopped to take photos of big green tomatoes. To the opposite side of the tomato crops was a huge eye opener as we saw a gigantic color-filled farm that seemed to stretch forever. Guillebaldo gave us a quick rundown of all of his crops back there and offered to pick whatever our group requested. His generous offer turned up big red beets, ripe artichoke and handfuls upon handfuls of traditional green and Thai purple basil. The hit of the farm was the beautiful purple bell peppers. Guillebaldo said these were a first-time crop for him and he welcomed us onto the field to pick our own. He cracked one open, broke it into several pieces and passed it around for us to sample. The meat is slightly thinner than that of a green bell pepper, but these were so much sweeter. I might have missed out on the tomatoes but no way did I miss out on these. Time wasn't on our side; otherwise, we might have walked off with a lot more fresh produce than we did. A big thanks goes to Guillebaldo Nunez for opening up his farm to us. I'll be looking for that ALBA brand next time I'm shopping for organics. Where are the photos? Right here... http://www.flickr.com/photos/26-2milesandmore/sets/72157621625559039/

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    Our happy tour group and our pickings for this stop (Photo credit to Sarah N)
    Our happy tour group and our pickings for this stop (Photo credit to Sarah N)
    Purple bell peppers from the Nunez Farm
    Purple bell peppers from the Nunez Farm
    Huge organic heirloom tomatoes

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    Huge organic heirloom tomatoes
    Watsonville Farmers' Market

    Watsonville Farmers' Market

    4.3
    (14 reviews)
    4.2 mi
    $$

    This is not really a farmer's market in the sensitive beard-toting, subaru-sporting,…read moretepui-tent-habitating eco-friendly organic produce folk sense. No, this is mainly for the street foodie enthusiast, for those into the quickest possible route to $4 slabs of masa packed with an earthy rich mole, chicken, and oaxacan cheese, steaming styrofoam cups of champurado, fresh crispy churros that my fiancee intuitively, aggressively chomps like a pittbull eating strips of bacon, that sort of thing. You come here to binge out on huaraches, sopes, and down horchata like you have no other task in life. You get stuffed here and post up in the old school Ville, only leaving after feeling immensely satisfied, and less impoverished than if you went to a sit-down place pretty much anywhere. I can't help but feeling a couple of these little ladies slanging tamales and empanadas have to be some of the best cooks in Santa Cruz county. More than 4 gringoes max last week sighted in the crowd last time we were there. Bound to blow up. Damn it, another of my favorites out in the interest of the yelper nation.

    We haven't been to the farmers market since the pandemic started but it was great to be back! Wish…read morethey had more venders but I'm hoping that comes back when the weather is better. The new restrooms are great and we really enjoyed ourselves Lots of yummy treats and great customer service the plaza is always a great reminder of growing up in Watsonville and gives a beautiful small home town feeling

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    Watsonville Farmers' Market
    Watsonville Farmers' Market
    Watsonville Farmers' Market

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    Boat Beticia - Wild Fish

    Boat Beticia - Wild Fish

    4.8
    (6 reviews)
    4.1 mi

    Call ahead to find out the catches of the day. If Vickie misses your call, she'll call you back…read moreeven when you don't leave a message. We were able to connect to purchase our primary goal of oysters, which were yummy. Vickie was engaging, answered our questions only about the seafood available to sale but also enjoyed sharing her journey of becoming a seafood monger. We also took advantage of buying freshly caught halibut that she was readily to custom cut for the weight we wanted and added some additional unfamiliar smaller fish great for Filipino broth soup and baking. If we ever head down to Moss Beach for another outing, we'll stop by. Easy and ample parking. Make sure mindful to park in the general public area rather than reserved for only vendors.

    We found out about Vicki and the Beticia from the Harbor Master at Moss Landing. We saw her sign…read moreout at the harbor lot entrance. The Harbor Master told us if the gate was open, she was in business. We walked out to her boat and I told her we'd like some swordfish. She cut us a couple of nice steaks and charged us a very reasonable price. We took them back to the RV parked next door and grilled them for dinner. They were excellent. My wife said it was the best swordfish she had ever had. We go to ML often and the Beticia will be a regular stop for fresh fish.

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    If you see the Wild Fish Boat Benicia sign, outside Moss Landing Harbor. Follow and get your fresh fish!
    If you see the Wild Fish Boat Benicia sign, outside Moss Landing Harbor. Follow and get your fresh fish!
    The Harbor at Moss Landing. The Beticia is just visible to the right.

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    The Harbor at Moss Landing. The Beticia is just visible to the right.

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