Gourmet Growers Family Farms Cooperative is a group of three families that have worked together in agriculture for decades. The co-op includes the families of the brothers Fernando and Fidel Flores, and Duncan Soldner. Our products are marketed by family member name, e.g., Duncan’s Gourmet Growers. Additionally, we are the farmers’ market partners of Mycopia Mushrooms Incorporated of Sebastopol. We began selling at Certified Farmer’s Markets in 2010, and we now attend markets in Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, and Petaluma.

Our primary crop is mushrooms grown on a substrate made from recycled agricultural by-products such as wheat straw, cottonseed hulls and meal, rice hulls, gypsum from recycled wall boards, and wood chips from furniture factories. We embrace Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAP) which include minimizing the use of new raw materials and reducing waste. Our SAP pest management program involves no pesticides relying instead on prevention of infestation. Our mushrooms are grown in enclosed, air-conditioned spaces that are ‘positive pressured’ by blowing filtered air into the rooms which keeps out flying insects and the potential problems they might bring with them.

MARKET:
Santa Rosa, Saturday
EMAIL:
[email protected]
PHONE:
(707) 695-4393