Earth & Vine Provisions had its beginnings in a small kitchen in Loomis, and today this thriving company is at home in Lincoln, CA. Celebrating a 15-year culinary adventure, Ron and Tressa Cooper share their appreciation for all-natural foods, local farmers, and a time-honored tradition of preserving. Because of this commitment to offering nature’s best, their line of jams, sauces, and condiments contain no artificial additives or preservatives.
For his college senior project back in 2003, Ken Muller researched and planted an olive orchard on his family’s land. Today, father and son team Joe and Ken continue to grow Copper Hill Olives on their small family farm in Yolo County, where the sustainably grown olive trees thrive in the coppery, hillside soil and Mediterranean climate. To ensure ultimate quality and freshness, the olives are hand-harvested and pressed within hours of picking, and all Copper Hill olive oils are extra virgin with delightful flavors that make them perfect for dipping, for salad dressings, and for use in every type of healthy cooking.
Since 1999, Michael and Monica Keller’s life goal has been to produce and distribute the best quality local olive oils possible. Calolea’s products include extra virgin olive oil, crushed citrus oils, and 12- and 18-year aged balsamics, straight out of Northern California.
Olives are nothing new to the Lucero family, as they’ve been growing these gems in Northern California for three generations and lay claim to some of the oldest olive trees in the region. While Dewey Lucero started the family-owned and operated business in 2005, his grandfather began producing olive oil for close friends and family by pressing small batches in a hand mill back in the day. Today, Lucero’s local award-winning olive oils and balsamic vinegars are available to not only the family’s close friends and relatives, but to Nugget guests, too.
In 2010, Papalote Salsa Trading Co. began, following in the footsteps of San Francisco’s highly acclaimed Papalote Mexican Grill which has been in business since 1999. Victor Escobedo, Jodi Hernandez, and Miguel Escobedo create 100% natural, vegan, gluten-free salsas that have been said to hit “the trifecta of spicy, salty, and smooth” according to Sunset Magazine.
Wine Country Kitchens has been making gourmet food products for more than 15 years, creating everything in-house at their facility in Napa. With the commitment to offer “Fine Foods of the Napa Valley,” Darrin Channels founded the business in 1996, creating local products that are 100% organic, all-natural, and vegetarian.
Founded in 2001, local Pachamama Coffee Cooperative is a farmer-owned coffee co-op, taking “fair trade” one step further by ensuring that their coffee farmers receive the fair trade price for green beans and also receive all proceeds from sales of the finished product. Pachamama’s mission: To improve the lives of small farmers while providing premium, fair-trade, 100% organic coffee for all to enjoy.
John Kinder opened his first meat market in the Bay Area in 1946 and, three generations later, his family continues to produce their line of top-quality barbecue sauces and marinades. Kinder’s many varieties of marinades and barbecue sauces (ranging from mild to “Exxxtra Hot”) are all-natural, gluten-free, with no MSG and no HFCS.
This local, family-owned and operated business, going strong since 1991, utilizes sustainable practices and makes olive oil and balsamic vinegars that are registered organic. Owned by Emanuele Bariani and Sebastian Bariani, this local olive-oil producer uses Mission and Manzanillo cultivars and is dedicated to quality rather than mass production and maximum revenue.
Jean Arnold began 479 Popcorn with a fond childhood memory of devouring fresh, organic popcorn that her mother made in a stovetop popper. While at London’s Le Cordon Bleu, Jean discovered that 479 degrees F. is the optimal temperature for popping corn, hence the name of her artisan product. Today, Jean makes popcorn in small batches by hand in her San Francisco kitchen, using organic heirloom corn, organic agave syrup, and locally sourced ingredients whenever possible.