Mission Pie

Pie Ranch

Mission Pie, as a young business, had a great opportunity to collaborate with Pie Ranch, a young farm, in creating a mutually beneficial commercial relationship that could support the educational and business goals of both enterprises. Mission Pie is a dedicated purchaser of Pie Ranch’s strawberries, cane berries, wheat, and winter squash. Mission Pie sustains a unique commitment to produce pie at reduced cost for Pie Ranch’s farm stand. Since more than half of the staff at Mission Pie have worked and learned at Pie Ranch, we daily tell the story of Pie Ranch programming and production to a large audience of people in San Francisco.

Blue House Farm

Blue House Farm is a neighbor of Pie Ranch, situated about six miles north behind the town of Pescadero, and nestled similarly between rolling hills, redwood forest, year-round creek, coastal prairie, and wild ocean beaches. They grow an impressive variety of vegetables, berries, and flowers for their own Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and for sale in local markets, including the Alemany Farmers Market. Mission Pie enjoys Blue House Farm’s luscious tomatoes, strawberries and beautiful flowers.

Good Humus Farm

Good Humus a 20-acre family farm owned and run by Jeff and Annie Main, located in Capay, CA, about 85 miles north of San Francisco. They’ve been passionate about cooperation, community, social change, the food movement and land stewardship since the 1970’s, and today their farm is home to over three dozen species of bird and four dozen native plants, aside from their seasonal variety of over five dozen different crops. We love them for their stone fruits most of all, especially their mouth-watering peaches, nectarines and apricots, which you’ll find in our pies every summer.

Swanton Berry Farm

Another neighbor of Pie Ranch, Swanton Berry Farm is a trendsetter in the agricultural industry as the first certified organic strawberry grower in California and the first organic farm to have a union contract. Pie Ranch teens visit Swanton’s Coastways site each December for a kiwi u-pick experience, which we then serve on tarts and sell in bags at Mission Pie. Swanton also currently grows cane berries, cauliflower, artichokes, peas, and at Mission Pie you’ll find their delicious broccoli and strawberries.

Nana Mae Organics

Paul Kolling, his family and crew have cultivate over 25 heirloom varieties of organic apples on over 450 acres of orchard in Sonoma County for over 30 years. They work in harmony with the seasons and tend orchards while preserving habitat, volunteer to reforest areas of the county each winter, and are active sponsors in the preservation of heritage foods. Watershed concerns, global warming awareness and carbon footprints are all areas of interest for the good folks at Nana Mae’s, though we also love their apples and pears, which you’ll not only find in our pies, but in our selection of bottled juices, too.

Earl’s Organic Produce

Earl’s Organics is a leading Bay Area wholesaler and the only one whose selection is 100% organic. Earl’s provides customers of all sizes – from the natural foods co-op to the independent grocery to the national chain store – with exceptional locally, regionally and internationally grown organic produce. Their mission is to honor growers as stewards of the land, and to consistently deliver high quality fruits and vegetables to their customers and a fair price to their growers.

Veritable Vegetable

Veritable Vegetable is the nation’s oldest distributor of certified organic produce. They’ve partnered with several local community organizations to combat the effects of poverty and poor nutrition, including the San Francisco Food Alliance, the Mission Education Project, and The Garden Project (organic garden at the San Francisco Jail that has reduced recidivism by 75%). We admire their ability to channel their prosperity as a business into contributions to projects and causes they believe in, and to translate their values into action. We also admire their top-notch fruits and vegetables, which we use to supplement the produce we source from farms directly.