We encourage you to learn more about our Gather for the Planet gala and year-end fundraiser on December 3 to be held at the Swedish American Music Hall, benefiting AIM and the Center for Food & Agriculture.

Market Participant Spotlight: 

• Delightful Foods – Delightful foods isa natural foods bakery specializing in 19 favors of pies available at one time. They also do vegan cookies, gluten-free pies, and hibiscus/ginger teas. They are a family business and believe in baking products with few ingredients but a great taste. They also strive to make sure customers are welcomed with a beautiful setup and excellent customer service. 
• Full Belly Bakery – Founded by Oakland native, Eva Allen. Full Belly is a made-from scratch bakery that specializes in flavor over sweetness. We believe dessert doesn’t have to be something that is tolerated and kills your sweet tooth, we’re confident you’ll find our cakes bursting with flavor and the perfect centerpiece for your next celebration.
  
• Mimbo Kitchen – Mimbo Kitchen is rooted from concepts of Cameroonian roadside eateries. A community meeting space, bringing folks together through food, music, and mimbo.

October Entertainment Schedule: 

10/1 – Glen Perry – Classic rock and blues guitar covers

10/8 – Mega Bloom & Sage Brush – Children’s Folk

10/15 – Elise & Steve Band – Indie

10/22 –  Dixie Dominus Jazz Band – Middle School Jazz Band from Fremont

10/29 – Georgia West – Alt-Country, Coastal Country Rock Band.

 

New Market Participant Pipeline (these folks are confirmed to join but we do not have a firm start date yet):   

  

Mill Valley Pasta Co. – makes small batch artisan bronze and brass cut pastas and various products meant to adorn or accompany pasta. Our pastas are made with organic semolina (gluten-free pasta is also available) and are slowly dried in open-air for superior bite and texture. Our provisions are made with local ingredients, often sourced from the local farms which also vend at the markets we attend. Our fresh pastas are made only hours before they make their way to market and feature unique flavors highlighting both the chef’s inspiration, seasonality, and locally available products.

Rize Up Bakery – Rize Up Bakery is a fledgling San Francisco based Black owned bakery focused on reinventing and rethinking traditional sourdough. Rize Up started as a quarantine project in the Spring of 2020, born in response to the social unrest caused by the murder of George Floyd and the disparate impact of the pandemic on the Black community. Founder Azikiwee Anderson was overcome with a need to make a difference and hopefully inspire young Black and Brown bakers to think outside the traditional box as representation matters . Rize Up wants to change the world one loaf of beautiful and thoughtful bread at a time, and share our love of delicious, thoughtfully baked breads made with natural, organic , sustainable, high quality ingredients! Honored to feed your soul.

Dooryard Provisions – Dooryard Provisions is a small batch local packaged food business focusing on seasonal and hand foraged foods. Choose between local seaweeds, herbal tisanes, healing spice blends and provisions for your journey or everyday. Dooryard Provisions is made from all organic ingredients and focuses on using seasonal, foraged and gleaned foods as well as uses local farmers from throughout Sonoma and Marin counties. 

Brundo Spice Company – We are an Ethiopian Women-Owned Company that prioritizes sustainable and equitable business practices, from our farm to your kitchen. From Modjo, to North Oakland, to you- we are committed to bringing the highest quality goods from Ethiopia and show the world the beauty of East African cuisine through heirloom spices and herbs. All of our products are imported directly from our processing facility in Modjo, Ethiopia, where they are locally grown, harvested, sun-dried, and blended

Aztecali Original Mexican Seasonings –  Original Mexican Seasonings and SpicesFull Belly Bakery – Founded by Oakland native, Eva Allen. Full Belly is a made-from scratch bakery that specializes in flavor over sweetness. We believe dessert doesn’t have to be something that is tolerated and kills your sweet tooth, we’re confident you’ll find our cakes bursting with flavor and the perfect centerpiece for your next celebration.

 

Mystical Mixes – Mystical Mixes produces all natural sea moss juices. Their juices are guaranteed fresh and contain no sugar, no water and zero chemicals. You can try one of their 10 flavors aimed to target different healing in the body.

 

Green Wolf Foods – Vegan meat substitutes: naturally smoked ready-to-eat vegan salami/sausages, 100% plant-based.

 

Out for Season: 

Tomato Man

Rainbow Ranch

Gotelli Cherries

Triple Delight Blueberries

Lucero

Sunblaze

Balakian

Feather River

Quit Market:

Nicasio Valley Cheese

Squabish Pretzels  

Stone Root 

Pang Yang

Early Bird Farm & Mill 

Capay 

Chaga Mushroom Co.

Dan Foster has been a market manager with AIM since 2017 and is currently managing the Grand Lake Oakland Farmers Markets. Prior to his time with AIM, Dan spent eleven years in produce/retail management at Whole Foods Market. Dan lives in Novato with his wife and three daughters. He studied Music Business/Management at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In his free time, he makes music, plays games, or hoops it up in a local basketball rec league.
Contact: dan@agriculturalinstitute.org