September 20, 2026 • 5:30PM — 8:30PM
raising funds for Noyo Food Forest
Join us for a special Harvest Dinner at Mendocino Grove benefiting Noyo Food Forest and their ability to grow good food for the FBUSD Cafeteria program and teach kids how to grow it for their community.
Chef Carolyn Barrett’s menu -
Noyo Food Forest’s Heirloom Tomatoes and burrata cheeese
Roasted Summer Veggies - from the Food Forest and other local farms
Organic Chicken - Caper & Leek with a white balsamic reduction..Yumm!
Hard Head Bread’s delicious sour dough baguettes and butter
and finishing with - Noyo Food Forest’s 6 Variety Apple Crisp a la Cowlick’s Vanilla Ice Cream
Enjoy a seasonal, veggie-forward, family-style dinner prepared by Carolen Barrett and Mendocino High School Culinary Arts students, featuring produce from the Noyo Food Forest Learning Garden and other local ingredients.
We’re grateful for the generous support of our local partners:
Syd’s Tempeh — featured in our vegetarian meals
Cowlick’s Ice Cream — donating ice cream for our Noyo Food Forest apple dessert
Hard Head Bread — donating fresh baguettes
Earth Spoke Farms — providing locally grown dahlias for the tables
Bonterra — generously sponsoring the evening and providing wine for purchase
North Coast Brewing Company — donating beer for the event
Noyo Food Forest — fresh vegetables, greens, herbs, and apples from the Learning Garden
Enjoy live music throughout the evening by Alex Wright,
Dan Coulson, and Bryon Greene of Mighty Blue Heron.
About the Noyo Food Forest
The Noyo Food Forest (NFF) is a small climate-smart production farm spread out over roughly an acre on the Fort Bragg High School campus. Founded in 2006, it is also a center for education in community-based agriculture, nutrition, sustainable pest management, developing increased biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and other climate-resilient practices. NFF offers free and low-cost workshops, paid internships, and classes in organic, community-based agriculture to train new local farmers and gardeners to feed the community. NFF works to cultivate a healthy local food system by creating opportunities for Mendocino Coast youth and community to learn about, grow, and access sustainably grown, garden-fresh foods. The organization is supported financially by plant and produce sales plus donations and grants, and operated by staff, board of directors, students and volunteers.