Cannery Urban Farm

Did you know that cover crops can help provide crucial habitat for honeybees and many other pollinators? The most important resources for pollinators are the pollen and nectar provided by flowering plants. Cover crops that flower can help pollinators meet their food requirements. Did you get the chance to see our beautiful flowering winter cover crop last year? Pollinators need more than just pollen and nectar. Most native bee species nest in the soil or in dead vegetation, w...hich cover crops can provide even if they do not flower, like our summer cover crop of Sorghum Sudan-grass. https://www.sare.org//Ec/Cover-Crop-Impacts-on-Pollinators

Compost is key to sequestering carbon in soil! This is why we apply compost each year to our California Department of Food and Agriculture's Healthy Soils Program plot. The Healthy Soils Program is about so much more than cover cropping. Adding compost is a key practice in order to feed microbes and build organic matter. One reason we keep losing organic matter from soils is that our focus is on feeding the plant, and we forget the needs of others who provide important services in soil like building organic carbon." As Kate Scow of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute put so well, "We need to feed the soil too."

We are proud to partner with Fulcrum Property, City of West Sacramento, Government, and Drake's: The Barn to provide fresh, local food to The Bridge District at... the Riverfront Farm--all of which is highlighted in this #TBDLIFE video.The community in The Bridge District is one of a kind. Check out this video highlighting all the amazing things it offers. https://youtu.be/6MCeywt3v9A

Come on down to the farm stand tonight from 5:30-7pm for some of these delicious Candy Striped Figs! We will also have some organically grown peaches, melons, eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, and carrots. Support your local beginning farmers while you stock up on summer produce before it's gone! Hope to see you there!

Tonight we are hosting a potluck dinner and peach u-pick from 6-8pm :) We hope to see you there!

Join us TOMORROW from 6-8pm for a beautiful potluck dinner and u-pick. Bring your friends and family, a shallow box for peaches, and a dish to share. See you there!

Today at the farm stand we'll have delicious 'Candy Stripe' figs, amazing yellow peaches, 'Dapple Dandie' Pluots, eggplant, cucumbers, zucchini, white onions, red 'New Girl' tomatoes, and some flowers. The Beecharmers will also be there with their Cannery Farm Honey from 5:30-7pm. See you there!

Can you believe we only have two farm stands left this summer? We can't! Summer is flying by and we still have lots of great produce to share with you at The Cannery. Stop by the farm stand on Monday from 5:30-7pm for the freshest cucumbers, tomatoes, summer squash, eggplant, figs, peaches, flowers and more.

This week at the farm stand we will have -Eggplant -Figs -Pluots -Tomatoes... -Zucchini -Armenian Cucumbers -Snow leopard Melons -Cantaloupe Melons We hope to see you there from 5:30-7pm!

Join us at The Cannery today for our Farm Stand and get some of these lovely 'Dapple Dandy' Pluots. They're so delicious and won't be around for much longer!

We look forward to seeing you at the farm stand tonight! Here's what will be available: $2/pound: Red Slicer Tomatoes 'Dapple Dandy' Pluots (delicious and short-seasoned!)... Yellow Peaches Zucchini Armenian Cucumbers Carrots $1/pound: Cantaloupe Watermelon- limited! White Onions Offered by The Beecharmers Honey Comb Jars of local honey from The Cannery Farm, Soil Born Farms, and other local hives. Come support your local farmers and beekeepers!