Meet Bianca
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New owner Bianca Rose Martinez has been an artist, activist, author, organizer and food medicine chef for nearly 20 years serving Ventura and the Ojai Valley as a private chef, retreat caterer and public speaker. Her business Compassionate Eating has been featured in the Ventura Breeze, Edible Magazine, The Ventura Star, Your Health Connection Magazine, Ojai Valley News and was voted one of the Women of the Ojai Valley in 2022. Bianca also taught cooking classes at the Ojai Culinary School at the Lavender Inn and the Ojai Valley Inn. Her passion for empowering people with the tools for a healthy lifestyle will continue at Harvest cafe with cooking classes starting fall of 2024.
She is excited to bring her culinary talents and vision to Harvest. Bianca is dedicated to supporting local organic farms that grow food using sustainable practices and providing a place for people to enjoy delicious food, share ideas, learn and grow together. When not working Bianca enjoys spending time with her two sons, practicing yoga, hiking, painting and going to the beach.
Thank you for the privilege!
Harvest Cafe is a community-based, organic and locally sourced cafe in the westside neighborhood of Ventura, California.
Our mission at Harvest cafe is to serve the healthiest possible cuisine from local, sustainable, and environmentally conscious sources.
Harvest Cafe Manifesto
Harvest cafe promises to be a true farm to table restaurant, serving only the freshest produce, arriving daily from farms in the Ventura area. All of our ingredients will be organic, and grown as close to our location as possible.
We will also take into account the long term sustainability of the farming operations from which we source our produce, showing preference to smaller family owned farms and those who use water more efficiently.
We will always value the health of our customers over profit margins, and will make ingredient choices based on those values.
We will make a concerted effort to educate our customers about health benefits of the foods they eat, and show them new and beneficial ingredient options to improve the foods that they already enjoy.
Our hope is that we can make an impact in the way that people think about food, inspiring them to make incremental changes that will benefit their health and the health of our environment.
We hope to demonstrate that food choices have a great effect on our planet, and that food choices can also be environmental choices.