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Resources For Growing, Cooking, or Catering Locally Produced Food

Gardening Resources for Home and Community Gardeners

As a service to LFC members, we offer this ( growing ) list of Food Garden Services in our community. If you are a professional Local Food Garden Service Provider, you may add your information to this list by contacting kathy@localfoodcoalition.org.

Amigo Bob Cantisano, Heaven and Earth Farm
Organic Ag Advisor
Vegetable, flower and herb starts
Heirloom Felix Gillet grapes, roses, ornamentals,
fruit and nut trees, organic fruits, vegetables, grapes and berries
orgamigo@gmail.com
530-­292-­3619

Lynn Lorenson Landscape Consultant
Specializing in climate & soil adapted plants
with an emphasis on CA natives.
weedsalotmore@hughes.net
530-274-3755

Tom Manuel & Lin Donald
Indian Hill Ranch
Landscaping design & installation
irrigation, tractor work, garden coaching,
consulting & troubleshooting.
Flowers by the bouquet or bucket.
530-265-3334

Cathe' Fish, Practical Permaculture Research Institute
Certified Permaculture Designer and Consultant since 1988
Master Gardner since 1988
Fruit trees and pruning
Practicalpermaculture.com
practicalpermaculture@gmail.com
530-265-8799

Chris Bierwagen
Donner Trail Fruit
Fruit tree pruning, spraying, instruction,
and assistance.
530-477-5992

Daniel Nicholson
Dancing Pines Farm & landscape services
Design, consultation, & installation
Full landscape services using natives & adapted
exotics. Fruit tree care, food forest development,
native plant & fungi identification,
rock walls, & irrigation.
danmadrone@gmail.com
530-292-3589

David Ward, Fruit Tree Pruning
David@davidwardstickart.com
530-613-0754

Deena & Robbie Miller
Sweet Roots Farm
Fruit tree pruning instruction & assistance
sweetrootsfood.com

Donald A. Bartel
Sierra Consulting & IPM
Integrated Pest & Vegetation Advisor
Fruit tree pruning instruction & assistance
sierraconsultingipm.com
530-432-7845

Kathy Laible, Sunnydaygarden
Creative garden design & sensible landscapes
planting, pruning, garden maintenance
mentoring & food gardens
kathlaible@yahoo.com
530-263-3709

Jane Godfrey
Fruit tree pruning instruction & assistance
517-449-5192

Patrick Rodysill, Garden Fare
Urban farms & Kitchen Gardens
MyGardenfare.com
patrick@mygardenfare.com
530-913-2962

Paul Racko, Sierra Permaculture Design
SierraPermaculture.com
530-613-4181

Randi Pratini, A Woman's Touch
Yard & Garden Design
Yard maintenance, food gardens,
mentoring, composting
530-478-0800

Randi Pratini, Fresh Starts Organic Farm
Edibles, herbs, annual flowers & perennials
many grown from our local Sierra Seeds Co-op seeds
530-478-0800

Grizzly Hill Organic Farm & Nursery
Organic veggie starts
http://www.grizzlyhill.com

Grizzly Hill Greenhouse & Hightunnel Kits http://www.grizzlyhill.com/pages/Greenhousepages*.html Jacquie Weills, The Flower Lady
Garden design, maintenance, mentoring
Flowers by the bouquet, bucket, weddings,
& regular plant sales
yogaflowerlady@yahoo.com
530-265-2554

Renee Wade, Certified Permaculture
Design Consultant
530-292-0279

Tom Wade, Certified Permaculture
Design Consultant
Holy Cow Landscaping
irrigation consulting, fruit tree
pruning instruction & assistance
Holy Cow Landscaping
530-292-0279

Valerie & Barry Johnson, Hillbilly Acres
Garden & yard maintenance services
including orchard, vineyard, & garden harvesting
hillbillyacres@sbcglobal.net
530-432-5344

Instruction in Gardening

A to Z Supply Garden Center
april@atozsupply.com
530-274-3871

Amigo Bob Cantisano & Seth Rosmarin
orgamigo@gmail.com
530-292-3619

Livinglands Agrarian Network
Tim Van Wagner and Leo Chapman
tim_van_wagner@hotmail.com

Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply
Organic Gardening Workshops
Intheloop.groworganic.com
530-272-4769x106

UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners
Ceplacer.ucdavis.edu
UCCE Placer & Nevada Counties
530-889-7388

Permaculture Workshops and Training

Practical Permaculture
PracticalPermaculture.com
Cathe' Fish, practicalpermaculture@gmail.com
530-478-1852

Sierra Permaculture Guild SierraPermaculture.org

Food Preparation & Preservation Resources

Barbara Hren, Barbara's Catering Company
Catering Services and Food Consulting, helping you find and serve local food
bankstreetcafe@yahoo.com
530-273-8876

Emily Scott, Emily's Catering & Cakes
Catering, Prepared Meals, featuring local ingredients
Emilyscateringandcakes.com
530-409-3716

Eva Tobie, Health and Happiness
Therapeutic Chef Services, nutrient dense menus. Nutrient Dense Cooking Instruction * using locally grown food/herbs
eva.tobie@gmail.com
530-478-1405

Graham Hayes, NourishWise
Chef Services featuring nutrient dense meals, Nutrient Dense Cooking Instruction * featuring local produce, meats and broths
graham@nourishwise.com
530-613-4585

Heaven and Earth Farm
Fermented Foods Classes * featuring farm fresh ingredients
Amigo Bob Cantisano
orgamigo@gmail.com
530-292-3619

Kalita Todd
Catering Services, featuring local food Garden Fresh Cooking Workshops * and Canning Classes & Support
kalitatodd@hotmail.com
530-272-8392 or 530-913-5480

Patti Bess
Cooking Instruction * featuring meatless recipes and local garden ingredients
pbess@jps.net
530-477-8333

Shan Kendall
Weston A. Price Foundation
Local Chapter Co-Leader
Nourishing Traditions, Nutrient Dense and Fermented Foods Workshops/Classes * with emphasis on local, seasonal foods
daveshanken@juno.com
530-478-5628

Wendy Van Wagner, In The Kitchen
Catering and Chef Services, Cooking classes featuring local chefs * with local food, fresh from the farm
Wendyvanwagner.com, or her blog!
648 Zion Street, Nevada City
530-478-0669