Since August 2017
A neglected backyard, one block deep.
Randy Stannard and Sarah McCamman met while apprenticing at Soil Born Farms, and spent a long time looking around greater Sacramento for a small parcel with a move-in-ready house on it. They found one in Tallac Village — an acre stretching all the way back from 64th Street to 65th. Escrow closed in August 2017. The garlic went in that fall.
Today there are roughly sixty distinct types of herbs and vegetables in the ground, several dozen young fruit trees donated by Soil Born Farms and the Sacramento Kings Foundation, and a straw-bale walk-in cooler they built themselves to keep the harvest cold without a large power bill.
Before Root 64, McCamman ran Heavy Dirt Farm in Davis for six years and built a following selling at the Oak Park Farmers Market. As she put it when the two of them started over on this acre: “It’s the same products, and we have the same stall and I have the same tablecloth. It’s just a different sign.”
