Imagine if every day you contributed to restoring an ecosystem while you ate. In the food lab, we grow or purchase food for a future. These are recipes that support reimagined agriculture and the ecosystems we live in, listed by season for central and southern California. Support local native food producers, as well as wild and regenerative foods!
#eatyourperennials #eatseasonal #eatnative #eatorganic #eatregenerative
Farm Café Recipes
Glass Bottles to a Future
An introduction on how we define food “sustainability” here.
And our favorite food festival: The Green Chef
Fall
Grapes (Vitis vinefera) coming soon
Winter
Perennial Greens (coming soon)
Spring
Nettle (Urtica dioica) (coming soon)
Native Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) (coming soon)
Seaweed (coming soon)
Summer
Elderberry (Sambucus)(coming soon)
Fig (Ficus carica) (coming soon)
Farm Café Event Menus
(COMING SOON)
Why Choose Regenerative and Wild-Gathered Food
As stewards of the land, we are not growing food just for profit. We are growing plants and trees for the ecosystem. Food for humans is only one part of that. We choose to wild-gather and farm regeneratively with perennial plants, where some will even outlive us and our children. Forest gardens act as natural habitats for animals, while reducing erosion, capturing carbon, and retaining healthy micro-organisms to feed our hungry plants the nutrients they need (mainly carbon!) without constant input and soil depletion (no more dust bowls allowed). This is food directly from nature to you. Nature provides. #forestgardening #eatyourperennials #eattheweeds
- Delicious
- Healthy
- Sustainable (food for your grandkids)
Wild-Gathering Calendar (coming soon)
Products
What do we make?
Native wild food: acorn and seed flour, seasonal prickly pear jam, elderberry syrup, nettle, nettle pesto, wild greens, mushrooms, pine needle juice, wild teas, seasalt, seaweed
Homesteady recipes: goat cheese, sourdough, kefir, wine, kombucha, kimcha, salsa, jam, fresh veggies, and… homemade chocolate and cookies
Farm Tech: aquaponics, green houses, solar dehydrators, shade structures, metal art, custom tools, and upcycled builds (#nomorenewstuff)
The Ecologist Cowboy 