Here are some places to get products locally and sustainably:

SNACKS AND PAPER PRODUCTS:

People and Planet, Mike Monroe, Morgan Hill. Morgan Hill's Fair Trade advocate offers a variety of coffees, teas, and fair-trade produced other comestibles and products such as biodegradable paper plates, baskets, and gifts. Best chocolate selection for miles, all fair trade and wonderful. 15750 Vineyard Boulevard, Suite 170 (walk through the yarn store to the back) Morgan Hill, CA 95037-7120 Office Phone: (408) 782-2700, Fax Number: (408) 776-3667, Mobile Phone: (408) 234-6377. http://www.peopleandplanetstore.com

Eat Wild     http://www.eatwild.com/products/california.html     has lots of interesting options  for food.

Interesting list of San Benito County meat and dairy providers: http://savepanochevalley.com/local_business

CATERING:

Reggie-licious Italian BBQ did a wonderful job with chicken and mushrooms with LOTS OF GARLIC for our April 2011 BBQ.

San Martin Meats is local and has a good reputation.

Jeff Raby is a local caterer with a great BBQ rig.

CET San Jose offers catering by people who are turning their lives around through culinary arts. See http://cateringwithacause.org/

Rebekah's Children's Services is training teens to do some catering. Contact: Rachel Lambert, Food Services and Culinary Academy Manager, Rebekah Children's Services, 408-846-2403  rlambert@rcskids.org

Lizarran does some catering.

Gaeta's Taqueria caters and made faculty very happy in early 2011 with a great Mexican lunch!

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES:

HERBERT FARMS CSA. Local family-owned farm's organic Eat with the Seasons Community Supported Agriculture program. Contact becky@herbertfamilyorganicfarm.com, 831-245-8125.

TWO SMALL FARMS CSA. Fresh organic produce from Watsonville delivers to Gilroy-Morgan Hill and beyond. Fruits and vegetables, and many events on the farm to help you connect to your food. For information, 831 786-0625 or csa@twosmallfarms.com

LIVE EARTH FARMS CSA. Fresh organic produce. www.liveearthfarm.com. Or call Debbie on Tuesdays and Thursdays, (831)763-2448.

APRICOTS--June, van Dyke Ranch, 7665 Crews Road

CHERRIES-- 2950 Leavesley, late May and June, www.buckleycherries.info 842-4697.

APPLES AND BERRIES seasonal, in Watsonville, Gizdich Ranch 831 722 1056

WALNUTS Hains Ranch south of Holister 831 6283390

APPLES & PEARS Prevedelli Ranch, Mello-dy Ranch, 831 724-9266, 460 Travers Lane Watsonville

MORGAN HILL FARMERS MARKET. The best farmers market in the area is now year-round on Saturdays from 9-1 at the Depot on Depot Street in downtown Morgan Hill.

HOLLISTER FARMERS MARKET. Weds. afternoons, spring to fall, Fourth and Main.

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK. Hunger is a constant, but donations are seasonal. Food from your pantry or garden welcome all year round at Second Harvest, the largest provider of food to those who need it in our area. Orchard harvesting: call 408 694-0017. Backyard produce with 10 or fewer trees: call 650 740-7725 or email joni@villageharvest.org. To drop off food, call 1 866 234-3663 for locations.

UCSC ORGANIC FARM and Alan Chadwick gardens offer examples of organic gardening and farming. Explore yourself or take tours; produce and flower sales every Tuesday and Friday, noon to six, through October. Open every day year-round, 8-6. Free parking on weekends. Directions: 831 459-4140; tours: 831 459-3240

GILROY BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION. Meets 2nd Tuesday (Oct. to May)7:00 PM at Gilroy Grange Hall, 8191 Swanston Lane, Gilroy, CA. Contact: Wayne Pitts 408-644-2382

THE JAVA STOP. Second and Monterey in Morgan Hill. Serves fair trade coffee.

WINE

HECKER PASS WINERY The Fortino family has been making excellent organic wines all along, and are now seeking organic certification for their vineyards. A great choice for locavores. See http://www.heckerpasswinery.com/index.cfm

NON-EDIBLE GOODS AND SERVICES

GARLIC CITY BOOKS. Used books in a gorgeous old building with ice cream cafe tucked at the back. What more could anyone want? They also buy your used books. They have some good gifts. 7490 Monterey St. Gilroy, CA 95020, (408) 842-2665 www.garliccitybooks.com

BOOKSHOP MORGAN HILL. Locally owned, selling small press as well as major trade books. Stocks fair trade gifts and locally made art work. At Depot and Second Streets in Morgan Hill, phone 778-6467

THE GRANARY. A converted grain storage facility that is environmentally designed and houses a number of eco-sensitive businesses as well as a gallery for local art. 17500 Depot Street in Morgan Hill, phone 779-6686.

ECOCARE WOMEN'S HOUSECLEANING COOP. This Morgan-Hill based cooperative helps single immigrant women by providing them with fairly compensated work, non-toxic materials, and flexible hours. EcoCare has won nationwide recognition for its work helping immigrant women gain independence and for "greening" the housecleaning business. For information, call 778-8445 or email ecocare@garlic.com

CASNER EXTERMINATING. Offers some non-toxic options. Hollister 831-637-8300 Gilroy and Morgan Hill 408 988-6060.

MEAT--Some would argue that no meat is sustainably raised, but many GCFA members eat meat: :

1. T.O. Cattle CompanySan Juan Bautista, CA. Beef.

The T.O. Cattle Company sells ÒMorris Grassfed Beef,Ó 100-percent grass-finished beef as split halves. (A split half will yield approximately 90 pounds of boned steaks, roasts, and ground beef.)
Our cattle are born and raised in the coastal ranges of California. They enjoy a diet of fresh grass, forbs, and legumes, clean water, and, as Julie says, better views than most of us do! We use neither synthetic hormones or fed antibiotics: our animals grow only as fast as their genetics and the range will allow. Their Òrange,Ó of course, serves also as watersheds and habitat for other communities. We manage our animals so that they enhance the diversity of life on the range, as well as the quality of the water that falls on the range and flows to the towns. We manage this web of relationships as an integral whole: damaging the health of any member of the "whole" community damages the rest.Our desire is to produce health with all we do. Only when this is done are we satisfied that Morris Grassfed Beef is all it can beÑthe best there is for all of us Our beef is harvested when both the animals and the grass are ready: usually, June. We time it thus so that the meat is packed with all the nutrients Jo describes. The beef is processed in a USDA inspected plant. Then it is dry-aged for 14 days, cut into individual cuts, wrapped in butcher paper, and frozen.
T.O. Cattle Company, Joe and Julie Morris, 500 Mission Vineyard Road, San Juan Batista CA 95045. (831) 623-2933.
E-mail: jmorris900@earthlink.net
Website: http://www.morrisgrassfed.com

2. Paicines Ranch - The Paicines Ranch (or Rancho Cienega de los Paicines), located in Paicines, California, has been a
working ranch since the mid-1800's. Paicines is located in San Benito County (just south of Santa Clara County),
approximately 10 miles south of Hollister, CA. Their mission is to keep the Paicines Ranch as a working ranch and open
space for future generations to enjoy and also to restore many of the historic buildings on the property.
We offer a variety of cuts available by the piece once a month. Visit www.paicinesranch.com to learn more about their
ranching practices.

3. Hain Ranch Organics Hollister, CA. Chickens, eggs, certified organic walnuts.
Hain Ranch Organics is a small family farm / ranch bordering the Tres Pinos Creek five miles south of Hollister in the central coast region of California. This CCOF certified organic operation blends the production of organic walnuts with a Salatin style pastured poultry system.ÊA section of orchard is planted with permanent pasture to provide green forage to the poultry during the May thru November seasonal production period. The poultry provide pest control benefits and contribute greatly to the fertility of the soil while receiving all of the fresh air, sunshine, grass and bugs that they desire. We also feed the poultry a high quality organic feed.ÊOn farm processing provides on-farm and farmersÕ market friends and customers with the highest quality fresh chicken possible while reducing stress on the poultry to a minimum. We are expanding our supply of frozen chicken to serve a couple of CSAs both on and off season. We currently produce 4000 broilers, 50 turkeys, and maintain a small pastured laying flock for eggs.ÊOur main markets are the San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Monterey Bay areas.ÊWe donÕt ship out of area. Blending organic walnuts and truly free range poultry production is a work in progress and we welcome the public to visit the ranch and see how their food is growHain Ranch Organics, Paul Hain, PO Box 549 / 608 Bolado Road, Tres Pinos CA 95075. (831) 628-3390. E-mail: paulhain@hotmail.com