Welcome to the new food revolution.
Our names are Phil and Juany Noble. Together, we own and operate Sage Mountain Farm. We are an active part of the organic food revolution that is sweeping across our country.
Our Heirloom Tomatoes, Sage Candy Onions, Crimson Red Watermelons and other high quality organic fruits and vegetables cannot be matched in quality and taste! They are helping us to become one of the most well-known, loved and popular farms in the Temecula valley.
Browsers.
Even though our website is accesible by all modern (within the last 3 years) browsers, Firefox is our browser of choice for both Mac and PC platforms. This is because we use Firebug to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live on all of our web pages.
Newer browsers better support Web Standards, which means that most websites you visit will work properly, and look better. You'll have a much happier experience visiting our site with the latest version of your favorite browser. We promise.
Certified Organic.
We are USDA Certified Organic growers, and are registered with the Riverside County and State of California Departments of Agriculture.
The company that helped us through the certification process was ORGANIC CERTIFIERS of Ventura, California. ORGANIC CERTIFIERS is USDA, IFOAM, ISO65 (EU Equivalent) and CARTV (Canadian Organic Regimen) Accredited, and has been certifying the organic community since 1996.
Their company was one of the first accredited by the USDA in early 2002, and they have a branch office in Temecula, California.
Growing, growing, growing.
When the Nobles moved to Sage Mountain Farm, they quickly planted a vegetable garden and filled up some of the existing corrals with cows, pigs, goats and chickens.
Starting with a small garden, Sage Mountain Farm grew from a hobby into a business.
They had some extra produce, and when they went to a farmers market, the people thanked them for coming and asked if they would be coming back next week. They came back and where told how thier produce was used and how much everyone enjoyed it.
Motivated by their passion for bringing produce to the marketplace, and their love for the outdoors and farming, they planted fruit trees, fenced of the property and purchased some of the land adjacent to thier original 5 acres.
Farming in the wilderness.
All of our fruits and vegetables are grown on our family farm using sparkling clean natural well water and healthy organic processes. At our high desert property, we also use pure organic guidelines to raise steers, chickens, pigs and goats.
Close encounter of the bobcat kind.
Farmer Phil woke up one night because the dogs where barking. Armed with only a flashlight, he went to investigate and at first, didn't see anything.
On his way back to the house he decided to shine the light in the trees, and there was a bobcat in the pepper tree above the chicken coupe.
With the dogs by his side to protect him, he entered the chicken coupe expecting the bob cat to flee. It didn't move.
Obviously the bobcat knew Phil was there, he must have know when he came out the front door and down the hill to the coupe.
After staring at each other for 5 minutes, less than 3 feet apart, Phil tapped the flashlight on the tin roof and the bobcat took off.
A once in a lifetime close encounter with a wild bobcat.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).
For more about Community Supported Agriculture, and its rich history, please click here (and visit our web page at Sage Mountain Farm CSA.
Teats for tots.
Lisa from the La Jolla Elementary School had the insane idea of bringing a cow to her kid's "After School Science Enrichment Program" (themed science of food) as a demonstration of where milk comes from.
She doubted that a single one of the 600 kids at her school had ever seen a cow milked.
Fortunately, Sage Mountain Farm was able to transport a milk cow to La Jolla for an evening.
The kids and parents really loved it. Not so sure about the cow.
A food "empire".
Named after the Inland Empire, the third most populous Metropolitan area in California (14th in America) and a major center of agriculture, the Sage mountain Farm CSA is poised to become one of the finest, most diverse and largest CSAs on the planet.
This will happen not because of any desire to make money, or create an "empire". It will happen because of our sincere belief in how important the CSA movement is for the health of our planet and the people (and other living creatures) who inhabit it.
A "noble" son.
We work hard with the hope that someday we will earn the right to be your very own farmer (if we aren't already). No one in the Sage Mountain Farm family works harder than our son, Justin Noble.
The above photo was taken by Don Cook (Don's Digital Café) at the Hillcrest Farmers Market.He is a key part of our distribution system and just about everything we do.
We supply Whole Foods Market and other healthy food stores, several restaurants and hotels (including the Meritage at Calloway Winery ).
We also supply countless individuals and families (such as yourself) through our booths at the Farmers Markets and through our innovative CSA program.
We hope to be your food supplier as well.
If you reside in any one of the beautiful California Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, or Riverside you're in luck!
Chances are very good that our food is available to you now (or soon will be).
By far, the best way for an individual person (or family) to enjoy our tasty fresh picked, local, organic and sustainable food is by joining our CSA program.
For more information about the evolutionary and revolutionary CSA movement, you will find a lot of information here.
If you're ready to join, click here. We even offer a one month trial period to new members.
Local Farmers.
If you knew more about what it takes to be a Farmer, you would revere your local Farmers as "heroes" in the modern food revolution.
For those of you that are not aware of the challenges of being a Farmer, perhaps this video will help to enlighten you (it gives a whole new meaning to the words, "support your local Farmer"):