Local Food
The mission of Sustainable Solano’s Local Food initiative is to create an environmentally sustainable, economically viable and socially just local food system in Solano County. You can help us build a local food system. Find out how below!
Seasonal Spotlight: Citrus Fruit
Why Eat Citrus?
Citrus fruits can include a variety of grapefruits, lemons, oranges, mandarins, limes and more. Lemons are in season from November through March, oranges from January through May, and grapefruit from February through June in Solano County. Citrus is high in Vitamin C, flavonoids and fiber.
How to Prepare Them
Citrus can be eaten in salads and smoothies, candied or preserved and used for juice or zest.
Try preserving oranges in this Pomona’s Orange Marmalade and find other seasonal recipes here.
Where to Find Them?
Find citrus
- at your local farm stands and open farmers markets
- in your Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box from local farms
- in some of these recipes!
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News and Updates
Sowing Seeds of Connection: 2025 Permaculture Design Course
Our 2025 Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) in Benicia blended online zoom sessions with hands-on, in-person training for nine students from August through December. As part of their training, students and instructors collaborated on redesigning an 850-square-foot residential lawn into a permaculture oasis, featuring rainwater-capturing swales, laundry-to-landscape, and native plant guilds.
Celebrating Petite Sirah & SuSol in Suisun City
It was a wonderful evening of wine, music, poetry and conversation around Sustainable Solano and local food at the Petite Sirah meet & greet.
All About Agritourism
While purchasing crops and products from local farms is an important part of supporting our local food system, it is only one way to support the work and livelihood of local farmers. Another way is agritourism, which puts farms and farmers face-to-face with community members who can grow to know them.