Butte County Local Food Network

🥕🌱 FREE THE FOOD STANDS — BUTTE COUNTY! 🌱🥕
Have extra produce from your garden? Share it! Need some fresh produce? Take some!
Our Free The Food Stands are a grassroots way for neighbors to share their garden abundance with the community. Drop off extra whole fruits and vegetables you’ve grown or gleaned, plant starts, or seeds—and help make sure good food gets eaten instead of going to waste. 💚
📍 Stands are located throughout Paradise, Magalia, Stirling City, Oroville, Gridley, and Chico.
See all stand locations, the map, and guidelines here:
Free The Food Stands – Butte County Local Food Network
🌻 Grow some. Share some. Take what you need. Feed your community.
Please share this post so more people know these stands are available!

The Elephant Farm Inc. just dropped off a ton of freshly picked produce from our Top 9 Food Allergen-free Garden at the Butte County Local Food Network’s stand on W 16th St in Chico

We’re so happy to share what we’re growing with our local community to help get fresh, garden-grown produce into the hands of local families!

Thanks to Butte County Local Food Network for allowing us a space to share! We are grateful to be part of such a wonderful community!

🍊 T-BAR TAKEOVER FOR BCLFN! 🌱

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 21st and join us at T-Bar in Chico for a delicious way to support the Butte County Local Food Network!

From 4:00–8:00 PM, 20% of your purchase will be donated to the Butte County Local Food Network / Golden Valley Bank Community Foundation. Your support helps us continue strengthening our local food system, supporting local farmers, expanding food access, and bringing hands-on garden and food education to children throughout Butte County. 🌻🥕🍅

📍 T-Bar
250 Vallombrosa Ave., Suite 200, Chico
📅 October 21st
⏰ 4:00–8:00 PM

Important: Make sure to tell the staff at checkout that you're part of the T-Bar Takeover so your purchase counts toward the fundraiser!

A huge thank you to Golden Valley Bank and T-Bar for supporting our work and our community. ❤️

Come grab something delicious, bring a friend, and help support local food in Butte County! 🌱

A big thank you to 4imprint! ❤️

We are so grateful to 4imprint for supporting our Harvest of Demeter Farm to Table Dinner by sponsoring aprons for our team through their one by one® grant program!

These aprons will be worn by the volunteers and community members working behind the scenes to bring together an evening celebrating local food, local farmers, and the people who make our food system possible.

We also encourage our community to check out 4imprint when you need promotional items for your business, organization, school, or next event. Supporting businesses that give back to organizations like ours helps that generosity keep going.

Thank you, 4imprint, for investing in our work and helping make Harvest of
Demeter possible! 🌱❤️

https://www.4imprint.com/

🌻🎨 Gardens are a pretty great place to learn about art too!

This week we read Sunflower House and used sunflowers as a way to bring together gardening, literacy, and art.

Students also learned about Vincent van Gogh’s sunflower paintings and talked about how artists use different colors to create a mood or feeling. We looked at how warm, bright, dark, and contrasting colors can completely change the way a piece of art feels.

Then it was their turn! Students created their own colorful sunflowers, choosing colors and designs that expressed their own ideas and feelings. 🌻💛💜💙

The garden gives us so many opportunities to connect subjects that might not seem connected at first. Plants can teach us science, inspire stories, and even become art.

Bringin’ in the Bees was a success! 🐝🌼

A huge thank you to everyone who came out and helped us bring more life, color, and habitat to the Bumblebee Community Garden!

With lots of helping hands, we planted native and pollinator friendly plants, restored natural habitat, painted, and continued transforming this space into a place where both our community and native pollinators can thrive.

A special thank you to Chico State College Corps and their amazing students for showing up, getting their hands dirty, and helping us accomplish so much. We are incredibly grateful for the community members and volunteers who planted, painted, dug, cleaned, and helped bring this project to life.

This event also supported a Pollinator Stewardship Certification through Pollinator Partnership, combining community education with real habitat restoration right here in Paradise.

Together, we’re bringing in the bees and building a healthier habitat for our community. 🐝🌱🌻

Students at Paradise Achieve’s afterschool program and Chico Achieve’s middle school program have been learning about the different food groups and how the foods we eat fit into each one.

Through a hands on game, students worked together to sort different foods into their correct food groups, talk about what makes each group different, and learn why our bodies need a variety of foods.

Food education is about more than telling kids what is “healthy.” We want students to understand their food, recognize what they are eating, try new things, and build knowledge they can take home with them.

Another fun week of learning with GROWN! 🌱🍓🥕🥛

Join today at Paradise Community Garden and as we open the tool lending library and start working out the community mural that will be located in the garden! Please bring clothes you don't mind getting paint on them, and see what we have all been working so hard to accomplish

Butte County Local Food Network is proud to be a National Farm to School Network Partner! This October, we’re looking forward to NFSN’s Partner Meeting in California, a curated gathering for Partners, Advisory Board members, and NFSN staff to strengthen connections, learn new skills and strategies, and advance farm to school and early care across the nation. Attendees will also get access to the California Farm to School Summit this year for an even richer experience.

Fellow NFSN Partners—see you there!

📍 Sacramento, California
🗓️ October 13-15, 2026
👉 Register here: https://www.farmtoschool.org/our-work/partner-meeting

Fresh, local food is on the move! 🍅🥬🌱

Our Farmer’s Mobile Market continues bringing locally grown produce directly to Forest Ranch, Concow, and Magalia, connecting our foothill communities with fresh food while supporting local farmers.

Coming up next:

🌱 Saturday, September 26
Forest Ranch
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
The American Veteran’s Store

🌱 Sunday, September 27
Magalia
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Magalia Community Park

Customers using EBT CalFresh receive a 50% Market Match, helping your food dollars go further while keeping more dollars in our local food system.

Come see what our farmers are growing and take a little piece of Butte County home with you! 💚🍅