CUESA’s Sunday Supper: A Farm to City Feast, represents California’s rich agricultural bounty. Each menu highlights products from sustainable and diversified local farms and ranches in CUESA’s farmers market community. The following businesses will be prominently featured in the menus, and their farmers and ranchers will be joining us at the table:

Capay Organic is second-generation family farm founded in 1976 by Kathleen Barsotti and Martin Barnes, and was the first organic farm in Capay Valley. Today it is run by Noah Barnes and Thaddeus and Freeman Barsotti, who feel a great responsibility to take care of their land for future generations.

County Line Harvest was founded by David Retsky in 2000. With 35 acres southwest of Petaluma and 80 acres in Thermal, the farm maintains full production year-round, with a diverse array of certified organic greens and other vegetables.

Devil’s Gulch Ranch is a diversified family farm founded by Mark Pasternak in Nicasio in 1971. Mark and his wife, Myriam, raise pastured pork, grass-fed lamb, and rabbit, in addition to growing wine grapes and asparagus. Education is key to the Pasternaks’ mission, and the farm regularly hosts summer camps for kids.

Dirty Girl Produce has been operated in Santa Cruz by Joe Schirmer and his family since 1999, and is known for its lettuces, brassicas, beans, strawberries, and flavorful dry-farmed Early Girl tomatoes , all organically grown.

Star Route Farms is the oldest continuously certified organic farm in California, founded by Warren Weber, who began farming in Bolinas in 1974. The farm is known for its innovativeness and commitment to implementing economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable practices.

Stemple Creek Ranch is a fourth-generation farm based in Marin, where Loren Poncia and his wife, Lisa, raise Angus cattle and Dorset and Shropshire lamb. The livestock are born in the fields and raised in open pasture throughout their lives, without artificial hormones, growth promotants, or antibiotics.