Napa Valley Farm Co-op

05/13/2024

Love 4H and FFA

Learn about the health benefits of salad with Val! Lilea Duran shares an interview with the 10-year-old Napan.

05/12/2024

Happy Mothers Day

05/10/2024

These are the family that I trust

05/10/2024

Yes, we are fielding calls for available land - Again, we are looking for fallow land of all types (short or long term lease or other). I've been contacted by a landowner regarding some land. I've advised that our goal would be to plant next season. This is a two-acre piece of land, has an existing well, used for horses, ground testing for optimum usage, the land is protected from all sides.

What can this land accommodate from the start? A goal might be to, depending on the ground testing, plant a nutritious cover crop on the land in the fall, 2025 spring plant a produce crop of Broccoli (Sun king Hybrid) with a companion plant like Beets, Onion or Garlic, harvest the crops (40-100 Days). Utilize all waste in our Worm Composting Bins. Plant a cover crop (field peas, clover, etc.) for (40-50 days), turn this land over to a broiler chicken run of 800 to 1000 chickens rotationally every 70 days, 3 broiler yields, moving them intensively (210 days). And prep the land again. This land can produce 12,000 # of chicken, bone meal, broth, feather meal, and process waste for our Black Soldier Fly Larvae Feed Process, as well as 7 tons of broccoli, beets, garlic and onions... This is 2 Acres! Live the dream.

Another goal would be to harvest rainwater and carbon on this property, you can see that this (Beautiful) land doesn't have a cover crop on it. This is common, although I'm sure one starts to grow in the rainy season, as we said this land would be covered all year, we would also drill rain catchments throughout the property annually. Simple holes. To catch rainwater so it does not leave this property. Get that rain into the substrate as much as possible. We're looking at the big picture here. It takes ground water to grow crops. We want to do it better than most.

Is this what we want? I'd hope so. Let's not talk about sustainability in Napa, let's do it. We need working members of the Buying Co-op to start. You have to trust this can all be possible. And please keep lining up land for us.

05/10/2024

When you spend money locally on farm products, it stays local when farmers are involved. I don’t need to tell you how important that is. How many farm products can be sourced in Napa County? Farms you can visit? List every one you can think of and let’s make sure they are around for our future. I’m listing Living Being Farms (no winery’s,lol)

Harvesting early for the
So many amazing vendors!!!

05/09/2024

Are prices really this high? Ths is an instant price comparison for Working Members. Working Members pay $25 a month and contribute 4hrs of prep time to realize sales for our future General Member Program. Take a look.

Napa Valley Farms Store Walk Today - WOW! Price Comparison. I stopped by my local Grocery Store to pick up some fresh vegetables and eggs today. Yeh, I'm still buying them the old fashion way. Anyone really looking closely at meat prices? Beef? Check Out these sales! From the top-down USDA Grade Choice - Fillet $19.99, Tri Tip Steaks $10.99, Same steak different sign $11.99, New York Strip Boness $17.49 Thin Cut, New York, kind of thicker cut $16.99, Rib Eye $8.99 Bone In, Tri Tip Roast $8.99 untrimmed and on and on... These were on sale! 😞

Working together we can do much better, today I can get Whole Primal's Choice - Trip Tip for $4.89, New York $10.49 Boneless, RibEye $10.99 Lip On, Sirloin $4.09, Chuck $4.49, Real Meaty Ribs $4.09, Beef Brisket Wagu $6.49, Flank Steak $7.09 and the list keeps going.

A lot of these primal pieces have barely any waste... Utilize the waste and wholly cow you can have beef for dinner again! Any cut your thickness.

We can also have access to any level of grass fed, anti-biotic free, no growth hormone, or any other contact to unnatural chemicals or pesticides...

Come talk to us about our working member programs.

05/09/2024

Napa Valley Farms Store Walk Today - WOW! Price Comparison. I stopped by my local Grocery Store to pick up some fresh vegetables and eggs today. Yeh, I'm still buying them the old fashion way. Anyone really looking closely at meat prices? Beef? Check Out these sales! From the top-down USDA Grade Choice - Fillet $19.99, Tri Tip Steaks $10.99, Same steak different sign $11.99, New York Strip Boness $17.49 Thin Cut, New York, kind of thicker cut $16.99, Rib Eye $8.99 Bone In, Tri Tip Roast $8.99 untrimmed and on and on... These were on sale! 😞

Working together we can do much better, today I can get Whole Primal's Choice - Trip Tip for $4.89, New York $10.49 Boneless, RibEye $10.99 Lip On, Sirloin $4.09, Chuck $4.49, Real Meaty Ribs $4.09, Beef Brisket Wagu $6.49, Flank Steak $7.09 and the list keeps going.

A lot of these primal pieces have barely any waste... Utilize the waste and wholly cow you can have beef for dinner again! Any cut your thickness.

We can also have access to any level of grass fed, anti-biotic free, no growth hormone, or any other contact to unnatural chemicals or pesticides...

Come talk to us about our working member programs.

05/05/2024

Noah and Leigh cooking Noah's weekly meals. Noah is working in Fresno this week. It's a joy to see young adults saving money to College and Life. It's not easy to save money. Proud!