From Farm To Pie

On an appropriately pie-shaped plot of land south of San Francisco on the Peninsula coast is an educational farm named Pie Ranch. This farm grows all the ingredients for pies: wheat, berries, bees for honey, goats for milk, chickens for eggs, pumpkins for pumpkin filling. This week they opened up a a café and pie shop in San Francisco named Mission Pie, located at 25th and Mission. Why pie? They say:

We call ourselves Pie Ranch for several reasons: 1) because the ranch is in the shape of a slice of pie; 2) pie, with all its ingredients and associations, is a great means for understanding how food comes from the land to our tables and 3) because the promise of pie will encourage city youth and adults to come discover the beauty and importance of rapidly disappearing farms to the future of people in the Bay Area, our food security, health and our understanding and appreciation of life and nature.

(From World Changing).