Regenerative Farms & Ranches in California and neighboring areas

Reposted from December 1, 2021

Fort Bidwell is off the beaten path. Many people contact us wanting to visit a holistically managed and/or regenerative farms and ranch, or purchase products grown in regenerating soils. Then, they look at a map and say, “oh wow, so if we can’t come visit you, what other farms and ranches in California do you recommend we visit?”

Our sister Savory hub in California, White Buffalo Land Trust, received the same questions. Clearly, people visiting California want to come to farms and ranches that are building soil and creating healthy food in the process.

Many are holistically managed and  enrolled in the Ecological Outcome Verification program through UVE.

Enough people asked us this question that Ana Smith, of White Buffalo Land Trust, and I compiled this list of farms and ranches we know and recommend visiting if traveling through California.

When we published this list to our community, we received an influx of requests of farms wishing to be added to this list. How exciting! The criteria to be added to this list is:

• We know the ranch and operation personally and can recommend it, and/or

• There is scientifically valid data backing up the regenerative claims being made by the ranch

We also expanded the list to include Nevada. Friends, keep the ranches and farms coming!

This list will continue to grow,  it is a living list. My dream is that when my children and I load up in the truck for a long haul down to, say Vacaville to stay with our friend Alexis at Soul Food Farm, that we pass many, many places to get good food along the way. I imagine local and regional food centers where we can find fresh, local produce and products and really experience the beauty, uniqueness and abundance of California.

Someday this list will be thousands of farms and ranches long. 

Northern California Farms 

• Alturas Ranches

  • Alturas

• Alexandre Family Farms

  • Crescent City

• Shakefork Community Farm

  • Carlotta

• Scott River Ranch

  • Etna

• Bidwell Canyon Farm

  • Fort Bidwell

• Modoc Harvest Food Hub

  • Cedarville

• Richards Grass Fed Beef

  • Sacramento

• Bee Love Farm

  • Vacaville

• Be Love Farm

  • Vacaville

• Soul Food Farm

  • Vacaville

• Table Bluff Farm

  • Loleta

• Mettler Family Farms

  • Lodi

• Bramble Tail

  • Sebastopol

• Root Down Farms

  • Pescadero

• Stemple Creek Ranch

  • Tomales

• Chico State University, Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems

  • Chico

• Dinner Bell Farms

  • Grass Valley

• TomKat Ranch

  • Pescadero

• Paicines Ranch

  • Paicines

• Full Belly Farm

  • Capay Valley

• PT Ranch

  • Ione

• Springs Ranch

  • Fort Bidwell

• Urban Edge Farm

  • Sacramento

• Burroughs Family Farm

  • Denair

• Morris Grassfed

  • San Juan Bautista

• True Grass Farms

  • Tomales

• Swanton Pacific Ranch

  • San Luis Obispo

• Magruder Ranch

  • Potter Valley

• Five Dot Ranch

  • Susanville

• Freestone Ranch

  • Valley Ford

• Wild Circle Farm

  • Yreka

Southern California Farms

• Weiser Family Farms

  • Tehachapi

• Orella Ranch

  • Goleta

• Kandarian Organic Farms (Heart and Soil Farm)

  • Los Osos

• Fat Uncle Farms

  • Wasco

• Cuyama Lamb

  • Cuyama Valley

• Chamberlain Ranch

  • Los Olivos

• DNG Farms

  • Agoura Hills

• Sow A Heart

  • Fillmore

• Santa Barbara Blueberries / Restoration Oaks Ranch

  • Santa Barbara

• La Puma Farms

  • Santa Barbara

• Tehachapi Grain Project

  • Tehachapi

• Ave 33 Farm

  • Los Angeles

• Baby Root Farm

  • Camarillo

• Tutti Frutti Farms

  • Lompoc

• Sunburst Ranch

  • Lompoc

• Duvarita Ranch

  • Lompoc

• Flying Disc Ranch

  • Thermal

• Nuss Farms

  • Lodi

• Anderson Ranch

  • Birds Landing

• Malibu Orchards

  • Malibu

• The Abundant Table

  • Camarillo

• Apricot Lane Farms

  • Moorpark