Terra Firma Farm is a 199 acre organic vegetable, fruit and nut farm in Winters, CA. We farm land along both sides of Putah Creek, in Solano and Yolo Counties. Winters is 70 miles northeast of San Francisco and 30 miles west of Sacramento, making it one of the closest diversified organic farms to both those population centers.
We operate a 1200 member Community Supported Agriculture program, where households subscribe to our farm in advance and receive one of three different sized boxes a week. For more info or to join our CSA, go to www.terrafirmafarm.com
Terra Firma grows small acreages of hot and cool weather vegetables; stone and pome fruit; citrus fruit; pistachios, and walnuts. Other than taking two weeks off at the end of the year, we are harvesting and planting crops all year. Over 90% of the produce in our CSA boxes comes directly from land that we farm.
All of the crops we grow are certified organic by California Certified Organic Farmers. For more info on what this means, go to www.ccof.org. At Terra Firma, organic farming does not just mean "no spray". We believe in actively managing the landscape of our farm to best combine modern biological farming methods and the ecological opportunities afforded us by nature.
Terra Firma, like most small farms in California, does not receive any direct government subsidies.
California is an arid landscape, and like all human enterprises in the state, Terra Firma relies on stored water from the ground as well as publicly funded water projects. Nonetheless, Winters has a much higher annual rainfall than most vegetable and fruit growing areas of the state. During the wet season, most of our crops are irrigated solely by rainfall. For the dry season, we have an abundant natural acquifer that feeds our shallow wells, and our publicly provided water from the Solano Irrigation District comes from Lake Berryessa, just five miles to the west.
Our farm provides year-round employment for 30 people, including the three owners.
We currently own 100 acres of the land that we farm, and lease the remainder. Many of our orchards are small parcels that were previously abandoned or underutilized.
