With a new year comes new intentions and fresh perspective. Campesino Café exists to carry the farm’s voice. We amplify the daily work of our team and the quality of the ingredients they grow.
Now we come back closer to the heart of the farm. Chef de Cuisine James Caveness has shaped an early spring menu that reflects what is happening in the fields right now.
Beginning Saturday, the menu steps nearer to the Market Garden: herbs and edible flowers, delicate lettuces, roasted roots, charred brassicas. Color you can taste. It is a good time to be an eater.
We invite you to experience the new menu and taste the farm in this moment. Nearly everything on the plate is grown here or sourced from our neighbors, and all of it is cooked with care. Alice Waters would approve of the spirit. Thank you for your support. We look forward to sharing the abundance with you.
CAMPESINO MEANS “OF THE LAND”
Right here, right now.
ON THE PLATE TODAY
The best salads we know how to make; fresh juices; herby, funky, craveable flavors; roasted abundance that changes each day, chef’s choice; oven-warm rustic sourdough; San Juan Blue tostadas; Peace Beans.
OPEN EVERY DAY
7 days a week, 9am to 2pm
A DAILY CELEBRATION OF THE FARM
The Café carries the farm’s voice, a sound system for ingredients grown with care.
Campesino = Of the Land
Used throughout Latin America, campesino is more than just a translation of the word farmer. As The Ecology Center founder Evan Marks learned during his travels in agroecological research, a person who says “soy campesino” is saying less about who they are individually, and more about what they belong to. Both a mark of humility and a badge of honor, campesino is a title for those who live in relationship to the land, day in and day out.
This café exists to honor and uplift those who do the life-giving work of stewarding the land—work that goes largely invisible in our current food system. We’ve built this community gathering space with the goal of supporting a living wage for all our agricultural workers. When you enjoy the nourishment offered here, you nourish the farmers who grew the coffee, tended the orchards, harvested the grain, and cared for the animals.
Thank you for helping us make the difference that ensures an abundant future for these farmers and their families. By modeling a food system in which land stewards receive the respect and compensation their work deserves, we can inspire a new generation of conscious community farmers to keep this lineage alive.