Jacob’s Farm/ Del Cabo Organic Farm featured in local article

Congrats to our client Jacobs Farm / Del Cabo for generating this article in the San Mateo County Times: Farm took root when ‘organic’ wasn’t in markets or lexicon.

Jacobs Farm / Del Cabo is the largest culinary organic herb grower in the country. They import 19 million pounds of sweet, organic cherry tomatoes and other vegetables from their partner co-op in Mexico .

San Mateo County Times, by Julia Scott:

“Today Jacobs Farm is a gourmet’s version of Candy Land, where everything within sight is edible and smells delicious. What looks like a tangle of weeds running along the base of a eucalyptus grove is, upon closer inspection, a fragrant row of spearmint. A pungent patch of lemon verbena intermingles with the scent of rosemary hedges and bay leaf shrubs that line a row of savory.

They were pioneers. They were stewards of the land at time when extraction was the model for agriculture. And it wasn’t just because they were organic — it was because they loved what they did.” Said Bu Nygrens, co-owner of Veritable Vegetable, a San Francisco-based organic produce distributor founded in 1974.”Organic produce is so ubiquitous today that it’s hard to imagine a time when the term held no place in public discourse and struggled for official recognition as a set of farming practices.

When the couple hacked their way through their Pescadero fields for the first time, a handful of small growers across California had only just begun using the term “organic,” according to the Organic Farming Research Foundation. There was no established market for pesticide-free products, so Jacobs Farm built its own network. The couple farmed their fields alone from dawn to dusk, sometimes walking home at 2 or 3 a.m. caked in dirt and bent with exhaustion.”

Keep an eye out for more news from Jacobs Farm /Del Cabo such as seasonal recipes on their web sites: Jacobs Farm & Del Cabo.