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You can recognize a person who has acclimated to San Francisco’s benign unto confounding climate because they chuckle when talking about seasons. Sometimes it seems we have two  - the dominant season that cycles each week through temperate and cold, and the glorious season of SeptOctober, our summer during which we do our best to [...]

David Evans is the founder and owner of Marin Sun Farms, an extension of his family’s farming heritage. The mission of Marin Sun is to actively participate in the creation of a more sustainable food model and an agrarian culture that restores, conserves, and maintains the productivity of our landscape and the health of its [...]

Dinner Bell Farm is nestled in the diverse ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada foothills. The founders understand ecological farming as an essential piece of stewardship of our planet. They specialize in pasture-raised, heritage breed chicken, and their crop speaks to the belief that nutritionally dense food is right, and that there is a better way [...]

Work in food service affords many of the same affirmations as working the land. There is tangible satisfaction in long days on two feet, calloused hands, and a body sore from repetition. It is work that has a pulsing, breathing life of its own, a rhythm we—farmers, bakers, servers—hear as giddy-up. So we keep the [...]

Welcome to Winter Holiday time at Mission Pie. We hope this post answers many of your questions. Any others we will be happy to answer when you place your order by phone 415-282-1500 or 415-282-4PIE or in person at Mission Pie. Sorry, we do NOT take orders by email, tweet, nor Facebook. WE WILL BE [...]

This is a time of year that we talk a lot about giving: giving thanks; giving gifts; giving to causes; giving back. A lot of people talk about Mission Pie as a business that “gives back” to its communities. While we appreciate the praise, we tend to reject the phrase. To us, “giving back” implies [...]

Hello, pie fans. Thank you for being interested in having Mission Pie at your Thanksgiving. As in previous years, our order deadline was the end of Sunday before Thanksgiving. If you missed the ordering deadline, we can offer the following information and guidance: We will be baking more pies each day this week (Monday, Tuesday, [...]

Welcome to the holiday season. We are excited at the prospect of baking your Thanksgiving pies. Please read the following and then call us with your order or any questions. During this busy season, we are not able to respond to questions through the website, via email, tweet, Facebook in a timely way. PLEASE CALL [...]

Interested home bakers are invited to submit a sweet or savory pie to the 6th Annual Pie Baking Contest at Mission Pie. The first 20 people to enter will be the contestants this year. If you would like to participate * Please email us or call us before 5pm on Friday, September 21st at eatpie@missionpie.com [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I got news from my family that my 97 year-old grandfather was failing: he was in renal failure, hadn’t eaten in a week, weighed next to nothing. The doctors said, “couple of weeks, tops”. “I’ll be there Saturday”, I said. “Bring pie”, they said. So I traveled to Florida with [...]

Come by Thursday, June 21 between 6-8:30 to meet artist Caroline Wampole, admire her Mad Men and pie-themed art and sip something cool. Not the kind of stuff they sip on Mad Men…that’ll be the after-party.

Mission Pie is pleased to host an educational event called A Farm Bill for the 99% co-sponsored by Food & Water Watch and the Center for Political Education Date: Tuesday, May 29 Time: 6pm-8pm Come learn how local leaders and communities are pushing for a healthier, more sustainable food system! Join us for an exciting [...]

We got this message via Twitter recently, and the whole story is longer than 140 characters: “I love you @missionpie, but the fact that you guys don’t accept credit cards is silly. Why did you stopped [sic] using @square? Cc @postmates” Silly? We think not. Our choice to not accept credit cards is an example [...]

If you like food and your like photography, you’ll likely enjoy the show going up at Lomography this week, opening Thursday. There’s some fun involved, too: SF Station, which partnered with Lomography on this show, has a Foodie IQ challenge for you, with prizes and all!

A few weeks back, Krista, Joel, David, Sharon, and John visited Taylor Maid Farms, from whom we purchase coffee. TMF was hosting a roasting demo and tour of their plant in Sebastopol. Krista did additional research and offered this edifying Crop of the Week posting.

We are going to the screening of The Last Crop, a nearly completed film that artfully tells the worrisome story of the loss of our farmlands through the lens of one California farming family – the Mains of Good Humus Farm grow extraordinary stone fruit that gloriously lands in our pie each summer – Meet [...]

If you were at the party, thanks for making it so wonderful – it wouldn’t have been without you. We have so many folks to thank for contributions that made the Anniversary party so special, delicious, beautiful, and great-sounding. Thanks to our neighbors, customers, vendors, and friends who came out for the party, and also [...]