Campesino Cafe – The Ecology Center

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.

9am-3pm Wed-Sun
Coffee, Pastries, Breakfast, & Lunch

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.

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.

Open to the public seven 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.

Our Café 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 a ritual, a place to gather around taste and nourishment, a place that brings us together and helps us to remember that it all starts with the land and the farmers who tend to it.

We celebrate our whole community and the generous contributors who made the opening of this café possible.

$100,000 -$500,000

Thanks a Latte Jaffe Family
Marisla Foundation
Rosemary Kraemer Raitt Foundation
Tsao Family Foundation

$50,000 -$100,000

Anonymous
Sunshine Fund

$10,000 – $25,000

Edie Barvin
The Glowacki Family
The Matzinger Family
Tonya Picerne
The Prettyman Maris Family
Particia and Louis Tomaselli
Eric and Ann Smyth
The Winslow Family

$5,000 – $10,000

Damian and Michelle Collins
Brian Myers
The Joseph and Susan and Peter Gatto Foundation

$1,000 – $5,000

Dara Cuartas-Del Real
Patricia Doyle
The Fetterolf Family
Michele Johnson
Anna and Christos Karmis
Margaux, Cate & Audrey Kugelman
Eileen Kawas
Anna Mantey
David and Vicki Marks
Crista and Chad Martin
The Ostensen Family
Joanne Rouleau
Megan & Nicholas Schneider
Tenaglia – Rodriguez Family
Maria Trefethen

Special thanks to:

Erin Browne and Chris Bledsoe
Hexberg Family Foundation
James and Sheila Peterson
Jennifer and Anton Segerstrom
James and Ann Shea
Carrie and John Quintanar
The Wege Foundation

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Our Café is community supported.

Campesino = Of the Land