Here at NIBBLERS, it’s easy to create great flavor when the ingredients are so fresh & flavorful already.  We didn’t grow that asparagus, form that gorgeous cheese or make that beautiful bottle of wine.  Meet our local producers:   Heirloom Organics in Santa Cruz. Beautiful salad & braising greens, the best spinach around, crinkly & full of rich flavor. Delightful fresh baby corn, huge spicy sweet watermelon radishes, sugar sweet baby beets, dark, brooding chocolate mint and bright, aromatic pineapple mint. Hamada Farms in Kingsburg. Phenomenal stone fruit, gorgeous table grapes grown without pesticides. Check out their dried pluots! Currently working on their fourth generation!  Knoll Tairwa in Brentwood. The first biodynamic farm in California and the original green garlic producer, they also grow some of the best figs, spearmint & cardoons around. Rick Knoll is a truly unique individual, and a sustainable agriculture pioneer in Contra Costa.   Rose Lane Farmin Knightsen. In addition to her gorgeous roses, Penny grows dozens of heirloom tomato varietals including amazingly flavorful cherry types, numerous squash, apple & garlic varietals & the most wonderful almonds we’ve tasted.  Happy Quail Farms in East Palo Alto. Intensely flavored rhubarb, obscure Andean squash, and the best selection of heirloom peppers in the states.  Don’t miss their Pimientos de Padron!   Fulton Valley in Sonoma. Sustainable producers of free-range & organic chickens who don’t live in crowded cages, and taste like chicken is supposed to taste.  Andante Dairy in Petaluma. Soyoung Scanlon, formerly a biochemist, still a concert pianist, and probably the most outstanding cheesemaker in the state. At her one woman creamery, Soyoung produces a remarkable number of handmade delicacies, along with all the butter used by Thomas Keller at the French Laundry. Also recently tapped by Fresca Italia to produce the first true artisan Robiola style cheese in the U.S.  Montemaggiore in Dry Creek. A young couple getting back to their Italian roots, growing olives & winegrapes in accordance to biodynamic standards. Their Paolo’s vineyard Syrah is consistently one of our very favorite California reds. Mauritson Wines in Rockpile. 140 years of family history in Sonoma & Clay’s one of the most eloquent & creative winemakers in the business. 

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