Menu
Campesino is a ritual, a place to gather around taste, nourishment, a place that brings us together, helps us to remember that it all starts with the land and the farmers who tend to it. The shared experience, connectedness, self respect and dignity that comes along with the day to day, moment to moment stewardship of the land and the abundance it provides.
menu
Drinks
Steady State Coffee program
Juice – citrus blend, veg blend
Agua Fresca – daily
Tea – herbal, mate
Market Garden
MG Salad
Daily Salad (seasonal)
Market Garden Sandwich
Milpa
Bean Toast
whole grain Rye Goods bread, heirloom beans
Mulita / Quesadilla
beans or flor de calabada
Salad Taco
our corn tortillas, heirloom beans, greens
Fruit Forest
Farm Jam on Rye Toast
Fruit Salad
Chia or Parfait with Fruit
Cover Crop
Peace Porridge
our whole grain ground polenta, greens, egg, condiments
Peace Pizza
mixed seasonal veg pizza
Frittata
Rye Pastries
Since The Ecology Center’s founding in 2008, we’ve been on a mission to nourish and inspire our community with the vision of an ecological food future.
This year, we broke ground on an on-site café that will be an expression of that vision, and a welcoming gateway for community members to connect to this movement through food.
Planned for opening in Spring, Campesino Café will be at the center of our efforts to engage our community with a taste of the abundance that is possible through creative collaboration for the health of people and planet.
We envision Campesino as a bright and welcoming environment where our community can gather over ethically sourced coffee drinks, hand-blended teas, juices pressed from fresh farm produce, and light breakfast and lunch fare that celebrates our crop rotation.
Open to the public five days a week, this offering will be more than simply an inviting new point of entry for our community. It will also serve as another arm of our experiential education, showcasing the commercial viability of our regenerative ethos through a working demonstration of a zero-waste, closed-loop food and beverage model. “Learn by doing” never tasted so good.
We invite you to join us in building this community gathering place where individuals and families, locals and visitors, can connect over healthy food, experience the reality of a healthy village, and leave inspired to foster healthy change in their own lives.
Since The Ecology Center’s founding in 2008, we’ve been on a mission to nourish and inspire our community with the vision of an ecological food future.
This year, we broke ground on an on-site café that will be an expression of that vision, and a welcoming gateway for community members to connect to this movement through food.
Planned for opening in September, Campesino Café will be at the center of our efforts to engage our community with a taste of the abundance that is possible through creative collaboration for the health of people and planet.
We envision Campesino as a bright and welcoming environment where our community can gather over ethically sourced coffee drinks, hand-blended teas, juices pressed from fresh farm produce, and light breakfast and lunch fare that celebrates our crop rotation.
Open to the public five days a week, this offering will be more than simply an inviting new point of entry for our community. It will also serve as another arm of our experiential education, showcasing the commercial viability of our regenerative ethos through a working demonstration of a zero-waste, closed-loop food and beverage model. “Learn by doing” never tasted so good.
We invite you to join us in building this community gathering place where individuals and families, locals and visitors, can connect over healthy food, experience the reality of a healthy village, and leave inspired to foster healthy change in their own lives.
Our Cafe is community supported.
We invite you to join our Campesino Membership level for a year of free coffee and other behind the scenes opportunities.
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.
Soy Campesino
Campesino Café is Only Possible Thanks to the Generosity of the Following Donors
Tsao Family: $300,000
Karen Jaffe: $84,000
Anonymous: $50,000
Anonymous: $30,000
Rosemary Kraemer Raitt Foundation: $25,000
Herzberger Family: $20,000
Anonymous: $20,000
Quintanar Family: $10,000
Tonya Picerne: $10,000
Melinda and John Glowaki: $10,000
Azimi-Sadati Family: $4,000
