Dos Hermanos Pupuseria serves simple food that works — four types of pupusas served alongside curtido slaw and a fiery salsa that leaves you wanting more.
Farmers Market Fridays
Wellness in a bottle? La Vie offers on-the-go boosts
Raw foods, recombined: That’s what you’ll find with Watsonville-based La Vie’s probiotic mixtures of fruits, vegetables and nut milks that are good and good for you. You can find its products at five farmers market locations throughout Santa Cruz County.
A heavenly almond butter made for the mortal masses: Philosopher Foods
Philosopher Foods sells great sprouted almond butter at Santa Cruz County farmers markets and elsewhere — but it’s also selling a great story about regenerative farm practices.
Four generations and counting: Prevedelli Farms
Mutsu, gala, Fuji, crimson crisp, Sommerfeld and beautiful pink pearl. Known for its endless supply of tasty local apples, Watsonville’s Prevedelli Farms banks on farmers markets in Santa Cruz County and neighboring areas to keep its business going.
Close, but no tomatoes: Molino Creek Farm
For Roland Saher, it’s a year of selling sunflowers, cucumbers, zucchinis, torpedo onions and sweet onions at the downtown Santa Cruz farmers market. But climate change means Molino Creek Farm’s dry-farmed early girl tomatoes aren’t available this year.

