The act of eating can and will affect both local economies, global ecosystems and your own personal health.

Come to our community International Potlucks at

Our Global Family Farm Sundays,1pm

this summer. June 18th, July 16 and August 13

Open Farm Days - July 14th - 16th

TOURING THE SLO COUNTY FARM TRAIL

Savoring summer on the SLO Co Farm Trail is what Open Farm Days are all about. Many of our local family farms will be swinging open their gates to welcome ticket holders to tour, taste and learn about our local agriCULTURE.

Demos, tastings and farm tours will be happening along the Open Farm Days Trail for our ticket holding guests to learn how our food is grown and products made here in SLO CAL.

FRIDAY JULY 14th  |  5-8PM - Kickoff Marketplace
at Downtwon City Park, Paso Robles
FREE TO ATTEND

SLO County Farm Trail farmers, makers and friends will gather at this Friday night marketplace to show off their locally grown and made to kick off the 3rd annual Open Farm Days weekend.

SATURDAY JULY 15th  |  6pm - Shepherd to Chef Dinner
at Rêves de Moutons in San Miguel
Join us for a summer evening of savoring, sipping and grazing with Black Market Cheese Company and chefs Rachel Ponce and Justin Lewis at Rêves de Moutons as we celebrate the completion of their new dairy! 

OPEN FARM DAYS OUT ON THE TRAIL - $55 pays for both days.
Meals and food items also available along the trail.

SATURDAY, JULY 15th

SUNDAY, JULY 16th

The Great AGventure for kids, FARMstead ED and SLO Co Farm Trail will be benefiting from this year’s proceeds. We are a small part of a larger collaborative, working together to support local ag, grow food and feed our community. It all starts with education and getting our hands dirty. Please join us as we raise awareness for our local family farms, agriculture as a whole and those who benefit from it – EVERYONE!

Food, Agriculture & Climate Change

Civic Spark Series at City Farm SLO

June 14th and June 28th

6pm

Join us at City Farm SLO in June for a 2 part speaker series exploring food and climate change! How is climate change impacting food production and access on the Central Coast? How can sustainable agriculture practices be a part of the solution?
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Hear from local experts and learn how to participate in efforts that are building a more sustainable food system throughout the Central Coast.
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This event is being organized by CivicSpark Fellows, Landon Keller and Amanda Christophe. Please contact achristophe@civicspark.CivicWell.org with any questions!

CivicSpark is an AmeriCorps program dedicated to building capacity for local public agencies to address community resilience issues such as climate change, water resource management, housing, and mobility. CivicSpark is a program of CivicWell (formerly the Local Government Commission). 
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Tour of Quail Springs Permaculture

June 10th in Cuyama Valley

The mission of Quail Springs is similar to the mission of Our Global Family Farm....

To empower students of all ages and backgrounds with knowledge, skills and inspiration essential to cultivating ecological and social health.

The best way to visit Quail Springs is by attending one of their Farm Tours. Tours are offered on a donation basis in late spring through fall. Quail Springs is located in the rural Cuyama Valley of California, one of the state’s most critically overdrafted water basins. Quail Springs resides on 450 acres of unceded Chumash land, surrounded by thousands of acres of Los Padres National Forest.

FARM TOUR ITINERARY

• 10am - Gather at Santa Barbara Pistachio Co.

• 10:40am - Site tour begins

• 1pm - Lunch + Teatime

• Free time

• 3pm - Gather + Drive out

Cooperation on the Farm

Our Global Family Farm and City Farm SLO are cooperating on a project using a permaculture technique called "Hugelkultur."

City Farm SLO is making a “Garden for All” which is a series of raised beds for the disabled and will be wheelchair accessible.

The raised beds are HUGE, so they are utilizing the permaculture technique of “Hugelkultur” inside the raised beds. They will put biomass at the bottom of their raised beds.

That means they need large amounts of biomass in the form of branches from trees and bushes to put in the bottom of the raised beds. And, Our Global Family Farm has the biomass! So, we are giving them all the branches they will need to fill the raised beds.

After the atmospheric rives there was so much water at the end of the field that our native plants died. We had to cut out the dead coffee berry, coyote bush and black sage bushes. These will be used to put at the bottom of the raised beds. Win – Win!

Come to the farm on Sundays to check it out! We are there every Sunday, 9am to 1pm.

We need MORE cooperation on the farm. In other words, we need folks like YOU to come out to the farm.

Another Win/Win is that farmers at City Farm SLO are all part of a cooperative farmstand. The farmstand is on Wednesdays 2:30 to 5:30pm.

And, from Our Global Family Farm we have global items in the farmstand:

We have…

African Gourds

Asian Luffa Sponge

European Bay Leaves

Native American Rainbow Corn

International Potpourri

Come out on Wednesdays at City Farm SLO to shop at the farmstand.