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Hoes Down Harvest Festival at Full Belly Farm – October 4, 2025

September 17, 2025 by The Natural Grocery Company

Over 30 years ago, the Full Belly Farm “Hoes Down Harvest Festival” was started to bring people out to the country and deepen their connection with food and land.

Today, Hoes Down is a festival fundraiser focused on educating people first-hand about the positive impacts of farming. At Hoes Down, guests experience activities like pruning trees, milking a cow, making compost and seasonal cooking. They eat local organic food and dance to the tunes of bluegrass and contra dance with one another. Attendees camp under the stars in their walnut orchard and wake up to a farm fresh breakfast.

Full Belly Farm invites you to join them in celebrating farming and rural living with your two feet in the soil!

Saturday, October 4, 2025

https://www.eco-farm.org/hoes-down

Filed Under: Berkeley Store, Blog, Eating Well, El Cerrito Store, Farm Visits, Know Your Farmer, Local Producers, Organic farming, Produce Notes, Special Events, Stores_both, Sustainability

Know Your Farmer: Full Belly Farm

September 16, 2025 by The Natural Grocery Company

Did you know that organic farming practices can support healtheir soil, ecosystems, and communities?

 

This organic month, shop healthy produce grown right here in your community at The Natural Grocery Company stores!

 

We’re proud to partner with Full Belly Farm to bring you a wide variety of locally grown veg and other products like their jams, tea cakes and fresh flower bouquets. Each carrot, onion, or radish was grown sustainably on their organic farm! 🚜

 

“Full Belly Farm is a certified organic farm located in the beautiful Capay Valley of northern California. We are committed to fostering sustainability on all levels, from fertility in our soil and care for the environment, to stable employment for our farm workers. We strive to be good stewards of this farm, so that this generation and future generations may continue to be nourished by the healthy and vibrant food that we produce. Our farm has been certified organic since 1985, and we strive to continue to support local food systems and create a strong local food economy.”

https://fullbellyfarm.com/

 

Want to visit and learn more about Full Belly Farm? Attend their Annual Hoes Down Festival on October 4. Information and tickets available at

https://www.eco-farm.org/hoes-down

Filed Under: Berkeley Store, Blog, Eating Well, El Cerrito Store, Farm Visits, Know Your Farmer, Organic farming, Organic foods, Produce Notes, Special Events, Stores_both, Sustainability

Chocolate Trail Mix Bars Recipe

February 10, 2025 by The Natural Grocery Company

These delicious chocolate trail mix bars are perfect whenever you’re on the go!

Plus, they’re made of pantry staples you probably already have on hand – including oats, peanut butter, and chocolate chips. And if you don’t have them on hand you know you can get them at our stores!

 

Chocolate Trail Mix Bars

Makes 8

Total time: 35 Minutes

Gluten-Free, Vegetarian

 

Ingredients

 

1 cup gluten-free rolled oats

½ cup trail mix

½ cup mixed roasted nuts, roughly chopped

⅓ cup chocolate chips

½ cup roasted sunflower seeds

¼ cup sesame seeds

¼ cup currants

½ cup honey or brown rice syrup

⅓ cup creamy peanut butter

2 ounces chocolate, chopped

¼ teaspoon avocado oil

 

Directions

 

  1. Preheat oven to 350° F. In a medium-size mixing bowl, combine oats, trail mix, nuts, chocolate chips, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, and currants.
  2. Heat peanut butter and honey in a small saucepan and stir until bubbling. Pour over oat mixture and stir until well blended and everything is coated.
  3. Line a 9”x9” baking pan with parchment paper. Add mixture to the pan and with wet hands, press mixture flat.
  4. Bake for 15 minutes. Allow bars to cool before removing from the pan.
  5. Cut into eight bars and place on a cooling rack.
  6. Fill a medium-sized pot with two inches of water and place a heatproof metal or glass mixing bowl on top. You want it to fit snugly without touching the water. Bring the water to a simmer over medium-low heat. Add the chocolate and avocado oil to the bowl and stir until melted and combined. Drizzle the chocolate over the cooled bars.

Filed Under: Blog, Chocolate, Eating Well, Farm Visits, Know Your Farmer, Non-GMO, Organic foods, Pasture Raised, Recipe Ideas, Stores_both

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2025 by The Natural Grocery Company

Filed Under: Annex, Berkeley Store, El Cerrito Store, Farm Visits, Know Your Farmer, Non-GMO, Pasture Raised, Special Events, Stores_both

Holiday Hours

December 6, 2024 by The Natural Grocery Company

Filed Under: Annex, Blog, Business Practices, Farm Visits, Holiday Tips, Know Your Farmer, Non-GMO, Pasture Raised, Stores_both

Farm Discovery Day

October 4, 2016 by WineAndBeer

We had a blast visiting the McClelland’s Dairy Farm this past weekend. At an event sponsored by Organic Valley, they pulled out all the fun farm toys! We got to spend time with calfs, shake and make butter, drive mini tractors, play in corn pits and drink milk (lots of milk!). Check out the pictures for a diary of the day. It’s always wonderful to see where our food comes from. I couldn’t help but pick up a dozen of their eggs before heading back to the city. Their bird’s beaks never get clipped so they roam the fields and eat tons of bugs and grass…all the good flavor making ingredients that lead to yummy eggs.

Don’t worry if you missed the event. McClelland’s eggs and Organic Valley milk and dairy products are available at our stores. img_3035img_3094img_3080img_3073img_3075img_3084
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Filed Under: Blog, Eating Well, Events, Farm Visits, Food Sheds, Know Your Farmer, Non-GMO, Organic farming, Organic foods, Pasture Raised, Special Events

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