Slow Food Santa Cruz aims to create a recognizable identification system, directory and metrics for local businesses in Santa Cruz, including restaurants, bars, food and beverage artisans, and stores and markets that embody the principles of good, clean and fair food.
Here are some of the local Slow Food resources unique to the Santa Cruz area. Are you a good, clean, and fair local business or organization? Would you like to be listed on this page? Please fill out our Partnership Form: Slow Food SC Partnership Form and email it to us at info@slowfoodsantacruz.com.
Farms
- Claravale Farm
- Crystal Bay Farm
- Dirty Girl Produce
- Everyone’s Harvest
- Happy Boy Farms
- Fogline Farm
- Pie Ranch
- Route 1 Farms
- Swanton Berry Farm
- TLC Ranch
- Valencia Creek Farms
CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture)
Farmers’ Markets
- Cabrillo Farmers’ Market – Aptos
- Monterey Bay Farmers’ Markets
- Santa Cruz Farmers’ Market – Downtown, Felton, Live Oak, Westside, Scotts Valley
- Watsonville Farmers’ Market – Peck & Main Streets, Fridays 2-7 p.m., year round.
Restaurants/Caterers
- Bantam
- Charlie Hong Kong
- Gabriella Cafe
- La Posta
- Local Harvest Catering
- Lupolo Craft Beer House
- Oasis Tasting Room & Kitchen
- Ristorante Avanti
- SC Food Lounge
- Soif Wine Bar and Merchants
- West End Tap & Kitchen
Food & Drink Processors/Producers
- Corralitos Brewing Co.
- Companion Bakery
- Elkhorn Slough Brewing Co.
- Farmhouse Culture
- Garden Variety Cheese
- Happy Girl Kitchen, Co.
- Harley Farms Goat Dairy
- Hidden Fortress Coffee
- Mission Hill Creamery
- Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing
- Silver Mountain Vineyards
- Twins Kitchen
- Verve Coffee Roasters
- Uncommon Brewers
Retail/Grocery
- Deluxe Foods of Aptos
- H & H Fresh Fish
- New Leaf Community Markets
- Ocean 2 Table
- Real Good Fish
- Shopper’s Corner
- Staff of Life
Education, Related Organizations & Projects
- ALBA – Agriculture & Land Based Training Association
- Amah Mutsun Relearning Garden – UCSC Arboretum
- Bay Area Food & Farm Tours Meetup
- CCOF – California Certified Organic Farmers
- Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS)
- Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF)
- Corralitos Open Farm Tours
- EcoFarm
- Edible Monterey Bay
- Food What?!
- Life Lab
- Live Oak Grange
- Outstanding in the Field
- Second Harvest Food Bank
Labor
- General:
- Bon Appetit Management Company: http://www.bamco.com/
- California Institute for Rural Studies: http://www.cirsinc.org/
- Fair Food Project: http://www.fairfoodproject.org/
- United Farm Workers of America: www.ufw.org
- Watsonville Law Center: http://www.watsonvillelawcenter.org/index.php
- Pesticide and Farmworker Health:
- Pesticide Action Network: http://www.panna.org/
- Pesticide Watch: http://www.pesticidewatch.org
- Fair Labor Certification:
- Agricultural Justice Project: http://www.agriculturaljusticeproject.org/
- Domestic Fair Trade Association: http://www.thedfta.org/
- Immigration Reform and Immigrant Rights Networks:
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: http://www.nnirr.org/
- ACLU: http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights
- Restaurant Industry:
- Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC): http://www.rocunited.org/
Slow Food Resources
- Slow Food South Bay (Silicon Valley)
- Slow Food San Francisco
- Slow Food East Bay
- Slow Food International – where Slow Food started
- Slow Food USA – our parent organization
- Local Foods Wheel
http://www.rocunited.org/