?An inspiring and empowering collection of farm-to-table recipes for cooks who want to know more about how ingredients get to their kitchens and want to be part of the solution offered by regenerative farming.? ?Library Journal From the famed Toluma Farms and its award-winning Tomales Farmstead Creamery: an irresistibly lush, illustrated collection of seasonal farm-to-table recipes paired with advocacy, education, and delicious inspiration. Welcome to Toluma Farms, a 160-acre goat and sheep dairy and educational farm in Marin County, California, just a few miles from the Pacific Coast, stewarded since 2003 by Tamara Jo Hicks, her husband, David Jablons, and their two daughters. Feasts on the Farm is a gorgeous cookbook organized by the seasons that captures the nourishing, creative, and positive approach taken by the entire Toluma team. Through 60+ tantalizing recipes ranging from starters to mains to sweets, this book makes it easy to bring Northern California living into your home, sharing practical guidance on how to:
- Take advantage of your local farmer's market's springtime bounty with a Farmers Panzanella Salad.
- Graze on the Perfect Summer Cheese Board on a lazy summer evening.
- Whip up some Pumpkin Muffins with Maple Goat Butter to kick off an early Autumn morning.
- Create a winter feast with a platter of Roasted Dungeness Crab with Herb Butter.
- And much more.
- Home cooks who focus on local and seasonal ingredients
- Anyone who loves to eat and cook with cheese
- Vegetable-forward but not exclusively vegetarian eaters
- Foodies who collect regional cookbooks
- Fans of regenerative/farm-to-table approaches
- Armchair travelers who dream of visiting the California farming coast
- Readers who enjoyed Six California Kitchens, The French Laundry Cookbook, and Alice Waters' We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
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Tamara Jo Hicks grew up in rural San Diego County and Oklahoma, so when she moved to the Bay Area to pursue her Clinical Psychology degree, she gravitated to bucolic West Marin. In 2003, she, her husband, David Jablons, and their two daughters, Josy and Emmy, purchased the 160-acre Toluma Farms property, and in 2007, restored the land's dairy operations to transition it to a goat and sheep dairy. In 2012, thanks to a grant from USDA Rural Development and capital from the land trust with Marin Agriculture Land Trust, and after several years of intensive land restoration, Tomales Farmstead Creamery was born.