City Farm SLO

05/29/2026

🌟 What it feels like to realize a vision four years in the making! 🌟 This structure is the result of a long, sometimes dramatic, effort that started in 2022. This is where food moves from the field into the community—washed, packed, and prepared for families, schools, and our farm stand. It will allow us to scale production, maintain quality, and actually get more local food into people’s hands. It also allows more space for our education programs to expand—we aren’t washing and packing vegetables in our outdoor classroom anymore!

SINCERE GRATITUDE to our funders for this project: California Department of Food and Agriculture , the folks at AgWest Farm Credit , and the generous individual donors who helped build this new hub for our farm community.

This structure took four years of work and a very dedicated team working through ups and downs and the challenges involved in pulling this off just *days* away from our grant deadline. A huge thanks to the folks that worked on this project:

Rachel Kovesdi at Kovesdi Consulting who donated her time and expertise
Andrew Goodwin and Bryan Shields at Andrew Goodwin Designs
Dan at Hive Engineering
Stacey and Halil at
My team of staff at City Farm SLO

Now, we’re dedicating this pavilion in honor of Steven and Jan Marx as a small token of appreciation for what they have done to make City Farm SLO what it is today. We could not be more grateful for their more than 15 years of commitment to City Farm SLO. .marx

05/29/2026

Open Farm Days is a special weekend presented by where 20+ farms, ranches, and producers across SLO County open their gates for a self-guided weekend of tastings, demos, and tours. City Farm SLO is a proud stop on the trail! City Farm SLO will be open Saturday, June 20th from 10am - 3pm with several activities planned:

👩‍🌾 Our Pay-What-You-Can Farm Stand will be open and sampling multiple items from our City Farmer Collaborative
🌻 Free Farm Tours Starting at 10am and 11am - learn the regenerative methods we use to grow food
🐏 Visit our sheep and watch the lambs frolic!
🍗 A special farm-to-table cooking expeirence with Chef Laurie Jo (details below, link in our bio)

$45 per person includes

A ~1 hour farm-to-table cooking experience led by Guest Chef Laurie Jo
A live cooking demonstration with tips for cooking with fresh, local ingredients
A shared farm lunch featuring roasted City Farm whole chicken and seasonal vegetables along with non-alcoholic beverages
An optional farm tour at 11:00 AM before the class to learn about the regenerative farming methods used to grow the ingredients
Cook, taste, and savor the farm! Join us at City Farm for a relaxed, hands-on cooking experience led by Guest Chef Laurie Jo, where we’ll prepare a delicious farm-to-table meal using the freshest organic ingredients grown right here on the farm. Together, we’ll roast a City Farm whole chicken and transform seasonal vegetables into a simple, flavorful dish that celebrates the bounty of the season.

The class will include a cooking demonstration, and plenty of tips for cooking with fresh, local ingredients. After we cook, we’ll gather around the table to enjoy the meal together in a beautiful farm setting. A refreshing non-alcoholic drink is included with the meal.

Recommended for ages 12 and up, but all ages are welcome.

05/28/2026

Not only do our sheep and lambs provide us with wool, meat, sustainable grazing and regenerative compost, but there is never a shortage of entertainment on the farm with these little lambs around!

Thank you Steven Marx for the video and selecting the perfect soundtrack

05/28/2026

It’s a ‘Flower Club’ where you’re supporting local, regenerative agriculture! The best kind of club, we think. Keep that fresh pop of color and local connection in your life all summer long! Choose from a 8 or 12 week subscription of City Farm blooms by City Farmer Caroline Blooms include annual cut flowers, dahlias, perennials, & native wildflowers. Sign up at the link in our bio or LittlePeaFlorals.com Pick up your flowers weekly at City Farm SLO in San Luis Obispo or .apothecary in Morro Bay 🌻 🌸 🪻 🌼

05/23/2026

Farms Together, also known as the LFPA, is a critical program that has quietly been nourishing our community.

Act now to save small farmers in California! 🌱 🍓 🍊

We need the state of California to fund LFPA, a program that has provided immense support to small farmers.

California lost 10% of its farms between 2017–2022. Programs like LFPA are how we fight back — but only if the state funds them. Without these programs, we risk losing farmers throughout the state. Help keep local farmers by urging your state representatives to fund LFPA!

What is LFPA?

The Local Food Purchasing Assistance Program (LFPA) connects small farmers with food banks to provide healthy, fresh, and local food to California families in need while opening up access to a fair market for local food.

From bok choy and chiles to peaches and tomatoes, these farm boxes reflect the diversity of the people who grow and receive them — food that nourishes and honors community.
Take action 🫵 Call your state rep and urge them to fund LFPA and CUSP. Script and instructions in the carousel!

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05/22/2026

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05/22/2026

05/21/2026

Get out and experience our local agriCULTURE firsthand – Open Farm Days Weekend has many local farms openings their gates to welcome guests. Check out a few highlights:

City Farm SLO
Explore and taste our regenerative farm! Join us for a farm tour, visit the farm stand, and a farm-to-table cooking experience & lunch.

Our Global Family Farm
Permaculture food growing system called a Food Forest. Come check it out and tour the farm!

*Some activities require additional RSVP made directly with farm or ranch.

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05/14/2026

(Swipe to the end for the full calendar) A taste of upcoming events at City Farm SLO. Sign ups for each of these events can be found at the link in our bio.

Farm Cook Night: This is a wonderful opportunity for anyone in the community, families, individuals, and friends, to come together and learn about the benefits of farm-fresh produce and where your food comes from. We will begin with a farm tour then cook together under our well-lit pergola.

Day Retreat: Join Farmer Caroline & Herbalist Hannah (of Wild Trek Wellness) for Tending to the Earth Body: A Day Retreat at City Farm SLO. A day for the Women & Mothers of the Central Coast — woven together with herbal medicine, community care, & floral harvests. Steep in this season of early Spring, waxing to Summer, on the land that tends us so well. You’ll return home with a nourished heart & belly, a well-tended body & spirit, and in ever-deepening connection to the land we call home, and the community we get to share this life and days with (along with a handful of floral crafts, fresh flowers, & herbal remedies).

The Junior Farmers Summer Camp is a hands-on, outdoor experience where kids connect with land, their food, and each other. Campers will dig into gardening, care for farm animals, explore compost and soil life, and harvest fresh produce for farm-to-table snacks and lunch. Each day includes age-appropriate farm chores, interactive lessons on sustainable agriculture, and time for games, crafts, and nature-based play. Whether planting seeds, collecting eggs, or building mini worm habitats, campers will develop responsibility, teamwork, and curiosity through engaging farm activities.

Olive Oil 101: Join us at City Farm SLO for a hands-on introduction to olive oil with local producer Vance Rogers of Obispo Olive Oil. A retired physician turned olive grower, Vance produces small-batch, award-winning olive oil right here in San Luis Obispo County—recently earning a silver medal from the California Olive Oil Council.

As always we offer monthly community farm tours and we have volunteer opportunities multiple times a week. Visit our website to save your spot. 💻🌱

05/14/2026

Now on Wednesdays too! The City Farm SLO Pay-What-You-Can Farm Stand has moved to it's new permanent home in our newly dedicated Steven & Jan Marx Wash-Pack Pavilion and we are excited to expand our hours to Wednesday afternoons from 2:30-6:30 pm while we are in peak produce season. The farm stand features nearly all foods grown right here at City Farm in our market garden and by our Collaborative City Farmers. Find us at 1221 Calle Jaoquin in San Luis Obispo. Receive up to $30 of discount on your fresh fruits and veggies!

¡Ahora también los miércoles! El puesto de productos agrícolas de City Farm SLO, donde cada uno paga lo que puede, se ha trasladado a su nueva sede permanente en nuestro recién inaugurado pabellón Steven & Jan Marx Wash-Pack, y nos complace ampliar nuestro horario a los miércoles por la tarde, de 14:30 a 18:30, ahora que estamos en plena temporada de cosechas. El puesto ofrece casi todos los productos cultivados aquí mismo, en City Farm, en nuestro huerto comercial y por nuestros agricultores urbanos colaborativos. Nos encontrarás en el 1221 de la calle Joaquín, en San Luis Obispo. ¡Consigue hasta 30 $ de descuento en tus frutas y verduras frescas!