Our Farm
Find out how to join our CSA.
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Information about the Good Humus Farm Preservation Project and how you can help.
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Check out the Farmers Market times and places where you can shop from Good Humus.
For more information about Jeff and Annie history check out their Accomplishments page.
Good Humus Produce
Our History Our Diversity Our Vision
Good Humus Produce is a small family farm, owned and run by Jeff and Annie Main. We farm 20 acres of certified organic land in a little valley called the Hungry Hollow in Northern California. We started farming in 1976 after we both graduated from UC Davis and decided we wanted to start something BIG. The love of growing food, living on the less traveled path and doing something meaningful came from generations of strong-minded individuals. Cooperation, communities, social change, food movement and land stewardship have been our guiding beliefs in one form or another since the 1970's.
Our farm family includes our three children, Zachary, Alison, and Claire, our dogs Molly and Bean, and uncountable cats. Our close friend and partner Francisco Montez has been with us since 1980. Our farmhands team include folks who have been with us for many years, as well as folks who spend a few seasons interning with us.
Our windbreaks and the golden rolling hills dominate our landscape. In our eight 2 1/2 acre fields are mixed orchards, mixed California native hedgerows, cover crops, annual and perennial herbs and flowers and vegetables. With the knowledge handed down from our parents and grandparents we also produce unique jams and jellies made from our own fruit and herbs, dry tons of our fruit in the California sun, and make wreaths from the dried herbs and flowers.
We have been selling at the Davis Farmers Market, to wholesalers in the Bay Area, and to the Davis and Sacramento Food Coops since 1976. In 1993 we started our Community Supported Agriculture program which has helped to continue our commitment to direct and local marketing.
We have been working for the last 28 years to build from the ground up a family farm that provides food for people in our community. We have realized that if often takes lifetimes to developed a farm infrastructure, the buildings and processes that characterize a mature, viable farming unit. Through luck, help, and hard work we have been able to do most of the work of creating such a farm, but much is still yet to be accomplished. We are now in the process of permanently preserving Good Humus Farm through an Agricultural Easement . This will facilitate a future of not only ongoing stewardship and healthy local food production, but also a commitment to community and place.
Abundance
Our farm is abundant.
We invite you to share in this abundance.
Good Humus Produce grows a great variety of fruits, flowers and vegetables in every season.
Our Produce
We plant a tremendous diversity of flavorful crops, including varieties that can not be found at the supermarkets. The variability of weather and seasonal farming challenges means that each year's mix will be somewhat different.
Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, & Herbs
Where You Can Find Our Produce
click here to see places to find GOOD HUMUS Produce (csa Subscriptions, MARKETS, restaurants)
Specialty Items
We
produce a fair amount of specialty items such as jams, jellies and herb blends.
Nearly all of these items are grown or made by Annie with help from her friends
(they like to call themselves the "Jamming Mamas"!).
Jams and Jellies are made from our farm-fresh fruit and herbs. We like to make specialty products from traditional fruit varieties and with old fashioned recipes which makes them more unusual. They are made during the fruit season in small batches, so they are in limited supply and occasionally we sell out before more is made.
Dried Fruit is made from the ripest fruits of each year's harvest. The dried fruit is unsulfured and dried in the hot California summer sun.
Dried Herbs are gathered in our perennial herb garden. We dry them during the growing season to make herb blends and teas for the rest of the year.
Wreaths are made from our dried spring and summer flowers. We make them in the fall and winter months for the holiday season. You can find them at the farmers' market during that time or you can call us to make something special for you.