Local Producers

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

August 2025 Sales Flyer A (7/30-8/12)

July 30, 2025 by The Natural Grocery Company

August 2025 Sales Flyer A (7/30-8/12) (larger print)

Mini Wine Tasting: Populis Wines – Thursday, June 26, 2025

June 20, 2025 by The Natural Grocery Company

Please join us at The Annex, 10387 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, and meet winemaker, Diego Roig of Populis Wines (and Les Lunes Wines) on Thursday, June 26, 2025, 5pm-6pm. There is a $5 tasting fee and you must be 21+ to participate.

Saunt Oungoulian and Diego Roig produce two wines, Populis and Les Lunes Wine. With Populis, they purchase grapes from historic vineyards and multi-generational growers from Mendocino County. These wines are fresh, lively, fruit forward, and made in a playful style. They called this line “Populis” because it’s meant to be “wine for the people!”–delicious, honest, and affordable.

Their facility is literally the basement of Shaunt’s parents’ house in Orinda, just east of Berkeley. This allows them to produce wine without the interference of other wineries’ yeasts or influences as well as allowing them to age their wine for multiple vintages before release if needed.

They are absolutely 100% committed to farming and producing wines organically. They make no additions to the wines save for a small dose of sulfur before bottling if needed, as determined on a barrel by barrel basis.

Learn more about their wines on their Instagram Page @lesluneswine

Peach Shake Recipe from Frog Hollow Farms

September 8, 2022 by The Natural Grocery Company

Our friends at Frog Hollow Farms posted this great recipe for Peach Shakes! Imagine switching out frozen yogurt for the ice cream for a Peach Lassi drink! You’re welcome!

Cool down with this quick recipe to use up those almost to the end of the season !

Ingredients:
2 peaches, with seed and skin, removed
2 cups of quality vanilla ice cream
1/3 cup of whole milk

Method:
In a blender, add the ingredients and blend until well incorporated (about 45 seconds)
Serve in a tall chilled glass, garnish with a slice of peach.
Enjoy!

Thank you Frog Hollow Farms!

Organic Peaches from Frog Hollow Farms

July 10, 2022 by The Natural Grocery Company

Season: Now! A sweet and fragrant peach that’s ripe enough to drip juice down your chin is one of the ultimate joys of summer! Frog Hollow Farms grows over nineteen varieties of organic yellow peaches. How many will you try this year?

Flavor: White peaches tend to be sweeter than yellow ones. Yellow peaches have a bit more acid. Depending on the variety the flesh may be firm or soft, the flesh may cling to the pit (cling-stone) or separate easily (cling-free and free-stone). Frog Hollow hand picks and hand packs their peaches and we are so lucky to be situated close to their operations.

Storage: When buying peaches, choose fruits that smell sweet. They should have a creamy, yellow, or yellow-orange color and unwrinkled skin. Avoid green skin or bruising.

Once picked, mature peaches do continue to ripen and soften. If you must store them then let them breath, don’t stack them and keep them dry. Too many ripe peaches on hand? Consider washing, slicing and freezing them.

How to use: Fresh – whole, juice dripping down your chin! In a mixed fruit salad or combine with berries and blue cheese and serve in little gem lettuce cups as an appetizer. I like using firm peaches to bake in pies or galettes and for grilling.

Nutrition: Peaches are a rich source of carbohydrates, fiber, and natural sugars with little fat or protein. Peaches provide vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin K, and B vitamins.

Women’s History Month: Edison Grainery

March 25, 2022 by The Natural Grocery Company

We are celebrating Women’s History Month by calling attention to some of our local vendors that are women owned!

Edison Grainery is a women owned, family operated business in Benicia, CA.

Edison Grainery

Owner: Lyndsy Barnes O’Malley

Edison specializes in the highest quality of organic ingredients in their top 9 allergen free facility. Every lot of every ingredient is special to them. Edison starts with vetted farmers who met their food safety and good manufacturing practices. Upon receiving an inbound, a third-party laboratory submission is sent to test for pathogens, yeast, mold, gluten (All results aka Certificates of Analysis (CoA) are posted online at Edison Grainery for full customer transparency and confidence). Once given the green light by their food safety officers, they run the lot through their state of the art cleaning line (optical laser color sorter, rare earth magnet, metal detection, sifter) and then into production.

Lyndsy Barnes O’Malley, Edison Grainery Owner: “We’ve had the pleasure of working with The Natural Grocery Company for many years and are so grateful for the community and support”.

Likewise Lyndsy, The Natural Grocery Company appreciates Edison Grainery!

We’ve put together raffle baskets that feature this great women owned business along with several others. Stop by the Berkeley or El Cerrito Stores to enter.

Women’s History Month: Granola Guru

March 11, 2022 by The Natural Grocery Company

We are celebrating Women’s History Month by calling attention to some of our local vendors that are women owned!

Granola Guru

Owner: Anaya K.

Meet Granola Guru, a women-owned and women-powered Oakland, California company, committed to excellence. Anaya started The Granola Guru as a personal mission to transform and elevate a timeless classic. Their small batch artisan granola is designed to provide you with sustainable energy throughout the day.

They thrive off their 5 core values:

Quality locally sourced ingredients
Healthy Living
Purity
Nourishment
Outstanding Flavor

We love what they do!

We’ve put together raffle baskets that feature this great women owned business along with several others. Stop by the Berkeley or El Cerrito Stores to enter.

Thank you Anaya and Granola Guru!

Women’s History Month: Black Mountain Beauty

March 9, 2022 by The Natural Grocery Company

We are celebrating Women’s History Month by calling attention to some of our local vendors that are women owned!

Black Mountain Beauty

Owner: Marnie Jackson

Meet Black Mountain Beauty, a women-owned and women-powered Marin company, makers of organic, non-gmo, no cruelty, vegan and plastic free bath products for your whole family! They care about the future of our oceans!

“I am a farmer out in beautiful West Marin County in Northern California. I love to create products from the bounty of my farm. I am a Fiber Farmer first and create soft, cozy clothing from my Wensleydale sheep and Angora rabbits.

We live close to the beautiful Pacific Ocean beaches which I love to visit. Unfortunately, there is more and more plastic pollution on these beaches every day. So, in an effort to reduce my own use of plastic, I began creating all-natural Shampoo and Conditioner bars that need no plastic packaging. These have been selling like crazy to people who like chemical-free products and also care about plastic pollution in our oceans.

I am branching out to new, everyday personal products that can be made with biodegradable packaging or no packaging at all. Hope you enjoy it.” – Marnie Jackson

They are on a mission to create a zero waste beauty line. There are too many single use plastic containers floating around in the Ocean. Black Mountain Beauty is trying to reduce waste by creating, simple, organic, cruelty-free beauty products in biodegradable or refillable packaging. After spending many a weekend picking up plastic garbage on local ocean beaches, Black Mountain Beauty wanted to make a change in the world by doing their best to eliminate plastic waste.

We love what they do!

We’ve put together raffle baskets that feature this great women owned business along with several others. Stop by the Berkeley or El Cerrito Stores to enter.

Thank you Black Mountain Beauty!

Women’s History Month: Primavera Tamales

March 8, 2022 by The Natural Grocery Company

We are celebrating Women’s History Month by calling attention to some of our local vendors that are women owned! We’ve also put together raffle baskets that feature these great women owned businesses. Stop by the Berkeley or El Cerrito Stores to enter.

Primavera Tamales

Owner: Karen Taylor Waikiki

Karen started Primavera in 1991 after years of working as the chef at a Mexican restaurant in Sonoma. All of Primavera’s products are made by hand in a commercial kitchen. Corn masa (the main ingredient in tortillas and tamales) is made both fresh from dried corn and from pre-ground corn flour. Fresh masa is made by soaking dried white corn with lime (the mineral) and then milling it in a 15-horsepower stone grinder. Primavera is always experimenting with new recipes; Karen’s employees have made several contributions to their menu.

Primavera uses many organic products, including corn, corn flour, tomatoes, squash, melons, chiles, and eggs. Many fresh vegetables are sourced directly from local farms; the remaining are purchased through a local supplier that sources nationally and internationally. Corn and beans are grown in the United States.

Thank you Karen & Primavera Tamales!

Women’s History Month: Cult Crackers

March 3, 2022 by The Natural Grocery Company

We are celebrating Women’s History Month by calling attention to some of our local vendors that are women owned!

Cult Crackers

Owners: Dianna Dar & Birgitta Durell

Meet Cult Crackers, a women-owned and women-powered Bay Area company, makers of delicious small-batch organic crackers. Cult Crackers co-founders, Dianna and Birgitta, are local moms who met while volunteering at their daughters’ school in Berkeley. They became good friends and business partners when they launched their artisan cracker company. The two women are passionate about what they do, making a good-for-you snack that people love. Their biggest fans are their teenage daughters who also help out at their family-run small business. Cult Crackers, in their colorful red and blue recyclable bags, are a customer favorite.

Their totally addicting crackers are filled with good-for-you organic ingredients and packed with flavor and crunch. They bake their crackers at the Berkeley Kitchens, a wonderful community of small food producers in Berkeley, California.

They want you to enjoy their crackers knowing they’re made with your health and our planet in mind. From the very beginning they decided if they were going to do this, they were going to do it right, using their business as a force for good. They are commited to using only the highest-quality organic ingredients they can find, are certified organic, mix and bake every batch of crackers by hand, package in sustainable packaging, pay their employees a living wage, and do things with care and intention.

They love what they do, and that Cult Crackers nourish people in so many different ways.

We love what they do too!

We’ve put together raffle baskets that feature this great women owned business along with several others. Stop by the Berkeley or El Cerrito Stores to enter.

Thank you Cult Crackers!

Granola Guru

Black Mountain Beauty

We are celebrating Women’s History Month by calling attention to some of our local vendors that are women owned! We’ve also put together raffle baskets that feature these great women owned businesses. Stop by the Berkeley or El Cerrito Stores to enter.

Primavera Tamales

Cult Crackers

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