Olivia Chase

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Farm-to-table organic market, café, bakery, and CSA in Ojai, California. Fresh local produce, vegetarian cuisine, and community gathering since 2001. | Our Story A farm, a kitchen, and nearly three decades of feeding Ojai. It started with a seven-dollar organic tomato. Steve was selling vegetables at the Ventura farmers market. Olivia was running a bakery in town. She visited his farm in Carpinteria and said, 'Wouldn't it be great to have a restaurant on a farm?' A decade later, they fell in love at the Ojai farmers market while buying kabocha squash. They opened the Farmer and the Cook on a shoestring in 2001 — a little organic grocery store-café on what some called the 'wrong side of town.' The fridge was blinking. But from the start, people kept coming back. It took nine years to turn a profit, but that was okay. They were dreamers, and

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