Farm to Fork delivers food from the farmers and food purveyors of the Thursday and Sunday Marin Civic Center Farmers Markets to the many places where we work, learn, heal and play. MAI is proud to distribute locally grown food to a diverse community of schools, restaurants, corporate cafeterias, and catering services in Marin County and San Francisco.

If you are a local business feeding your community, or a MAI farmer or food purveyor, and are interested in participating in Farm to Fork, please read on for more information including customer profile forms, farmer availability forms, rules, and procedures. To see this week's order form, visit Place an Order.

FOR CUSTOMERS: SOURCE LOCALLY GROWN FOOD TODAY

We invite you to join the growing community of schools, restaurants, corporate cafeterias, and catering services in Marin County and San Francisco that are voting with their forks and their purchasing power for a vibrant local food system.

Our customers credit the freshness, quality, and diversity of product; the sustainable growing practices of our farmers; and the convenience of one order form that aggregates hundreds of products from nearly 50 local producers as the primary reasons why they source their ingredients through Farm to Fork.

"Previously when I wanted fresh local products to serve for our lunch program or a special event, I would have to take my wagon and a stack of cash to the farmer's market. Now it comes to our back door via Farm to Fork, which enables us to better support local farmers and offer their wonderful products to our students daily," said Branson School's Chef Richard Bartlett.

For more information please review the customer documents in the green box to the right and contact Leah Smith, Director of Outreach.

FOR FARMERS: DIVERSIFY YOUR BUSINESS

Farm to Fork offers MAI members who are currently attending the Thursday and/or Sunday Marin Civic Center Farmers Markets the opportunity to sell their products to a much broader public; reaching beyond the customers who frequent the market, to schools, restaurants, corporate cafeterias, catering services and more.

"The logistics work out really well for us because we are already harvesting for the Sunday Marin Farmers Market at the same time as for Farm to Fork. It's great because we already know we've sold product before we get to the market. Distribution of our product wholesale is key to our business model" said David Retsky, of County Line Harvest, an organic 30 acre farm located in Marin and Sonoma.

For more information please review the Participation Form below as well as the farmer documents in the green box to the right and contact Leah Smith, Director of Outreach.

Farmer Participation Requirements - PDF Procedures and Rules- PDF

Contact Leah Smith
(415) 472-6100 x111
leah@marinagriculturalinstitute.org