Tahoe Food Hub: News & Events for the Winter: Pumpkin Patch this week!
At the Farm Shop this week:
Tues-Fri 11-7, Sat 9-1 @ Truckee Airport off Soaring Way
We are having a Pumpkin Patch at the Farm Shop to welcome October and kick-off the fall harvest season! We have some medium to large carving pumpkins from Mike Pasner with Indian Springs Organic Farm in Penn Valley. Come pick-your-pumpkin from the patch or in our case, a pallet!
While you are here, you can get a seasonal flower bouquet and decorative pumpkins to get get your house in the harvest spirit!
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Read below for upcoming events, farmer bios, new products, and things to know about building your local food system.
Featured Farm:
Dan Clark Orchards – Russell Valley
We learn more about our local food possibilities every day. Like when Dan Clark of Russel Valley, just north of Truckee, stopped in with crates full of Honeycrisp and Jonathan Apples from his 100 tree orchard! Yes! 100 apple trees right here in Truckee! The Honey-crisps are juicy, sweet and of course crisp! Jonathan’s are tart and great for baking and making apple sauce! Stop in and try some of our local bounty! And pick-up one of Dan’s handmade crates too.
NEW @ H2O!
$30 seasonal farm box built for you!
If you don’t have the time to shop our online farmers market, you can now have it built for you. For $30, we will build a local farm box filled with seasonal fruits and vegetables from our local farms. We can accommodate dietary restrictions and take requests. Email us for more information and how to sign-up. Order week by week and pay as you go. Order Wednesday by 4pm and your produce box can be picked up at the Farm Shop starting Friday at 10am. Click here for more info!
Let’s get one of these for Truckee-Tahoe…a Bubbly Dynamic anaerobic digester!
By Eduardo Garcia – New York Times, Sept 21, 2019
Bubbly Dynamics said their anaerobic digester will turn organic waste into compost, biogas and a nutrient-rich liquid in which to grow algae. The digester is expected to help Bubbly Dynamics implement a circular economy, a model that could help fight climate change by feeding a rapidly growing urban population with food grown locally using organic methods. This closed-loop system would create little to no waste because materials would be reused, shared, repaired and refurbished. For more, read the entire article. Click Here!
Join us this Friday, October 4th at Plumas Bank in Truckee at 11638 Donner Pass Rd. from 11:30am – 2:00pm for their Customer Appreciation BBQ. Tahoe Food Hub and Plumas Bank have some exciting news to share with the community about a proposed new campus for our Sierra Agroecology Center.
FARM SHOP
OPEN Tues – Friday 11am – 7pm, Sat 9am – 1pm
12116 Chandelle Way, Unit D1, Truckee, CA 96161
Find us at the crossroads of Soaring Way and Aviation Way next to the Truckee Airport
TAHOE FOOD HUB
PO Box 3038
Truckee, CA 96160
530-562-7150
www.tahoefoodhub.org
Who we are what we do:
Tahoe Food Hub (TFH) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to develop a local food system that increases access to local food for communities surrounding Lake Tahoe and benefits diversified family farms within 150-miles. Our goal is to support farms using regenerative farming practices by providing them a fair marketplace to sell their products. Through this agricultural network, we can connect our community with where their food comes from and better understand the social, environmental and economic benefits of a local food system.