P2P partners with a variety of local farms and producers to bring the farmers' market to your front door.

Back in 2015, three longtime Santa Barbara-area organic farmers banded together to form Sunrise Organic Farm, a diversified veg and fruit operation specializing in heirloom and other unique varieties.

The founding trio started with a 12-acre plot in Carpinteria, a small town in southern Santa Barbara County, and decided to focus on farming artisanal produce varieties as a means of differentiation.

‍Today, Sunrise farms 240 acres throughout Santa Barbara County and offers more than 270 varieties of produce. Popular items include Nantes carrots, rainbow carrots, strawberries, an array of tomatoes and peppers, many kinds of melons, cucumbers, and a multitude of squashes. Sunrise also offers a full range of greens and head lettuce.

President and Head Farmer Jesus Salas has been growing organically in Santa Barbara County since the eighties, a time when the organic movement was just starting to gain traction in the region. Chuy Salas, Jesus’s son, has also been farming for many years and currently serves as COO for Sunrise. The farm’s third partner and CEO, Andrew Gibson, is a Santa Barbara native who brings a background in business consulting, along with organic farming and farmers market sales experience, to the operation.

Jose Alcantar and his daughter Maria are the proprietors of Carpinteria-based Alcantar Organics, where they grow a wide variety of vegetables and berries popular in Ventura County farmers markets, Malibu, and Santa Clarita. While Jose founded the farm in 2012, he grew up farming with horses and cattle in Guanajuato, Mexico before coming to the United States at 15. Once in California, Jose worked his way up through the ranks, eventually becoming the foreman of famed Lompoc-based Tutti Frutti Farms. And their logo? A tribute to the ladybugs Alcantar Organics releases in the spring to help control pests; just one of the traditional approaches to organic farming that they use, like rotating crops to allow the soil to rest.

Milliken Family Farms has been growing naturally in California for a total of five generations and counting. Our drive comes from the community members and chefs we have the incredible opportunity to grow a beautiful variety of berries and vegetables for.

In 2001 Marcie and Gustavo purchased the family farm and began growing their specialty fruits and vegetables for farmer’s markets. Today the farming operation consists of over 25 acres sales at 9 weekly certified farmers’ markets farmer’s markets a week. Their daughter, Christie, is well known at the farmers’ markets and an integral part of the family business. The array of products offered include beautiful and sustainably raised fruits and vegetables, handmade jams, preserves, farm raised pork, rabbit, fresh eggs and chicken and grass-fed lamb and goat, and of course the famous handmade Marcie’s Pies.

Located in the Santa Rita Hills, Tutti Frutti Farms Inc, is family-owned & certified organic since 1988. Chris Cadwell—a 5th generation farmer—and the Cadwell family grow organic fruits & vegetables in the Lompoc Valley. Tutti Frutti attributes its success to a unique microclimate, regenerative soil practices & hard-working employees.

Lily's Eggs is a 25-acre farm in Filmore located in the Los Padres Natural Forest. Lily's has a wide variety of eggs ranging from heirloom chicken eggs to quail eggs, goose eggs, and duck eggs. Founded in the early 80s, Lily's ensures that their chickens are free-range, pasture raised, and fed a diverse diet. Depending on the season, they may also have kumquats, honey, rose bushes, French lavender, rosemary, and cactus fruit.

Lily's was named after the family's Hungarian sheep dog named Lily. The farm family, originally bakers, were always looking for good quality eggs, which was hard to find at the time. They received eggs from nuns raising their own chickens. The nuns gifted the owners 14 chickens and from then, the family decided to become chicken farmers. Diana and Robert are the original farm owners and still run the farm today!

Drake Family Farms in Winchester, California produces Artisan Farmstead Goat Cheese with milk from their own award-winning dairy goats of the Saanen, Nubian, and Alpine varieties (By the way, every goat has a name). It is really hard to decide who are the biggest stars on the farm, the happy goats packed with personality, the amazingly smooth creamy cheese, or the passionate team members making it all happen…oh and maybe Dr. Dan. By the way, did we mention, every goat has a name. Wow…how did this all get started? Well we’re going to tell you. 

In 1984, a 4-H project with one goat named “Glacier,” on his parent's historic Drake Family Farm in Utah, gave way to a passion for goats which led to a herd of goats. Who would have seen that coming? In 2010, that passion eventually led to a Drake Family Farms here in California. 

On the way there, this 4-H’er finished veterinary medicine at UC Davis. He is now Dr. Dan (Drake) overseeing an Artisan Farmstead and providing veterinary care to many dairy farms’ herds in the Inland Empire. Looking at the picture of Dr. Dan and Azule it seems it is working out okay.

In 2015, Stepladder Creamery, in Cambria, California, had its first official kidding season and started making and selling its first cheeses. Jack and Michelle hired a neighbor who helped with some animal husbandry, but largely did all of the work themselves and sold most of the cheeses to a handful of local restaurants and at a couple of farmers markets. Things stayed fairly small for a couple of years with just a couple of employees and a few dozen goats until 2018 when they brought in help to manage production and make cheese. We now make roughly 75,000 lbs of cheese per year and while the Stepladder Creamery goat herd, team, and customer base has all grown significantly, the creamery still employs the same dedication and many of the small-batch artisan techniques as the hobby stage.

Meet Michael and Hailee Green, owners of Love Bug Gardens. Yes, that little cutie in this picture is their baby girl, who they love so much. They officially started their business in 2023 in Goleta, California, but started growing flowers in 2018 as a hobby. The last few years their flower growing hobby has tripled. They love to grow specialty flowers such as dahlias, ranunculus, sweet peas, sunflowers, zinnias, freesias as well as many other annual and perenial flowers. Something unique about them is that they grow everything that they sell, including filler flowers and greenery.