Another amazing summer has almost come to an end. We’ve been too busy picking tomatoes and flowers to grace your dinner tables to even turn the pages on our calendars. But, the farmers of Full Belly Farm generally do not count time day to day. Instead, we see the changing seasons by the events that […] The post News from the Farm | September 1, 2025 first appeared on Full Belly Farm.| Full Belly Farm
As mentioned last week, this is the time of year to plant our fall crops. So far, we’ve direct seeded beets, carrots, and spinach (more about that process here), and have transplanted broccoli and leeks, with many more to come. These cool weather crops don’t like the heat, but we have to start them now. […] The post News from the Farm | August 25, 2025 first appeared on Full Belly Farm.| Full Belly Farm
While keeping incredibly busy harvesting summer produce, we’ve also got fall on our minds and lots of fall prep on our To Do lists! We’re starting to cut and cure winter squash. The first samples showed up in the office last week. It happens every year around this time, but still feels like a surprise.| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
Full Belly Farm is a certified organic farm since 1985, located in Capay Valley, northern California. We commit to fostering sustainability, from fertility in our soil and care for the environment, to stable employment for our farm workers.| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
It’s estimated that there are 50,000 pepper varieties grown worldwide. We grow only a small portion of that diverse world. What we grow changes every year – I’ve conducted a pepper census and here’s the 2025 list: Sweet Hot For those who like a game – how many can you ID in the photos below? […] The post News from the Farm | August 11, 2025 first appeared on Full Belly Farm.| Full Belly Farm
Hello from the tomato field! It’s more of a sea of tomatoes, or perhaps a jungle. If we didn’t use a hedge trimmer to keep things tidy, the vines would grow so wild that the rows would be impassable. The air smells like tomatoes, and many happy and industrious spiders have strung webs between the| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
Last week’s cooler weather had many of us remarking that it felt more like fall than what we’d expect for peak summer days. While it’s still only July, we know that October will be here before we know it, with crisp mornings and the first winter squash and leafy greens. Besides the change in seasons […] The post News from the Farm | July 28, 2025 first appeared on Full Belly Farm.| Full Belly Farm
Today’s News from the Farm is an interview with a real farm VIP, our Human Resources Manager, Stephanie Ortiz-Villanueva! She's essential to keeping things running smoothly! When did you come to Full Belly Farm?September 2021, almost four years ago! But who’s counting? Things fly by so fast when you’re busy. And what are you busy| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
The weekly newsletter is a great opportunity to share who we are, what we’re doing, things that we’re thinking about, and more. Yet it’s impossible to capture everything going on. Given all that’s happening, each week presents an infinite number of possible topics for our newsletter, an exciting position to be in, albeit a bit […] The post News from the Farm | July 14, 2025 first appeared on Full Belly Farm.| Full Belly Farm
Potatoes, much like onions and garlic, seem to be ever present in stores, farmers markets, and even in our CSA boxes. Their ubiquity masks that, like most crops, they have specific growing and harvest seasons. We grow two potato crops. We plant our spring crop in mid-February and the fall crop in mid-August. The fall […] The post News from the Farm | July 7, 2025 first appeared on Full Belly Farm.| Full Belly Farm
We are a highly diversified farm, growing countless types of vegetables, fruits, and flowers and even within a single type of vegetable, often many varieties of each. We don’t just grow food for humans though; we’re also growing food for countless soil microorganisms and macroorganisms, including our sheep! Our sheep graze on fields of cover| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
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This Friday is the first day of summer and we’re (almost) ready. The gang’s all here (almost). Last week, right on cue, several of the summer classics were ready to start harvesting. Too many to document but it gives a glimpse of what you can find this week at one of our Farmers Markets and| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
Remember those tomatoes we transplanted a month ago? The work isn’t done once they’ve been transplanted; tomatoes also need to be staked and tied, and we’ve just finished staking both fields of tomatoes. We’ve planted a third field of tomatoes, but those aren’t tall enough yet to stake. We used to manually pound in all| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
Seeing rolls of twine at the end of a tomato field means someone is about to tie tomatoes, someone is tying tomatoes, or someone just finished tying tomatoes. Once we’ve staked the plants (refresher, plus video, on that process here), the next step of the tomato growing process is tying. Tomatoes are large, vine-like plants| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
Wow - the end of May already? This notoriously busy month has been quite the whirlwind of activity, and it marks one of our many seasonal shifts. It’s a month that includes plenty of elements of spring, but this is in combination with lots of time-sensitive preparation for summer. The temperatures have risen and the| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
I asked if I could write the newsletter this week because I realized it would probably be my last chance, and that I hadn’t written one since 2006! A few of you may know me but for the many that don’t, my name is Jan and I have been the harvest/farm manager for the past| Full Belly Farm - Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool
I think there’s only one word to describe last week: HOT. The coolest high temperature was Monday when it still got above 100, and it only got hotter as the week went on. Being outside when it’s 110 or above feels similar to the blast of hot, dry air you get when you open the| Full Belly Farm - Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool
It’s another flower update! Flowers are a big part of what we do, so we want everyone to be in the know. As described last week (which you can read here), this time of year is when we plant most of our spring flowers. On Thursday and Friday, the flower team aided by some interns| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
April showers bring May flowers, but when do you plant those flowers? It varies between years but Full Belly Farm, spring flowers went in the ground on Tuesday and Thursday of last week. Dru and Jan direct seeded 20 beds of flowers on Tuesday and Jan, the flower team, and Alfredo and his crew transplanted| Full Belly Farm - Certified Organic Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Wool Since 1985
