Soul Food Farm

Online ticket sales ended at 5:30 p.m. today.  They can also be bought in person at the Pizzaiolo event, Oct 11 1-5 pm.

The Soul Food Farm Raffle will be held live at the party at Pizzaiolo on Sunday, Oct. 11, admission is $14 and includes one entry in the raffle. Bidding has started on the separate silent auction connected to the event; winners will also be announced at Pizzaiolo.

You do not have to be present to win a raffle prize; all winners will be notified by email.* Raffle tickets are $5 each, or five for $20. Everyone who has donated money to Soul Food Farm already via PayPal will get one raffle ticket as a thank-you.**

Raffle prizes

A list of all the cool raffle prizes we’ve been offered follows. I think we have enough now — thanks everybody! Your generosity is truly breath-taking.

• A16 restaurant: $150 gift certificate and signed A16 cookbook
• Adesso Wine Bar: $75 gift certificate
• Bar Jules: $100 gift certificate
• Bici: One free bike tuneup
• Blue Bottle Coffee: $25 gift certificate good at any location or cart
• Boulette’s Larder: $50 gift certificate
• Camino restaurant: Gift certificate
• Novella Carpenter: Signed copy of her hilarious and inspiring Oakland memoir, Farm City
• Cafe Gratitude: $100 gift certificate
• Chez Panisse: Signed copies of hardvocer Chez Panisse Desserts with illustrations by Wayne Thiebaud, signed (by Lindsey Shere) hardcover Baker’s Dozen cookbook, and two signed books by Charles Shere, Roman Letters and Mostly Spain cookbooks
• Chronicle Books cookbooks gift pack
• CUESA: Ferry Plaza Farmers Market tote bag with cookbooks and market goodies
• Delfina: $75 gift certificate
• Dopo restaurant: $75 gift certificate
• Dona Tomas: Gift certificate & signed cookbook
• Flatland Flower Farm: A flat (16 plants) of herb and vegetable starts
• The Gardener: $50 gift certificate
• Gialina Pizzeria: Gift certificate
• Gioia Pizza: Two $25 gift certificates
• Ici Ice Cream: Two $25 gift certificates
• Kermit Lynch: 2 magnums of Domaine Les Palliéres Gigondas 2004 and 2005 (separate items)
• Let’s Be Frank: Party pack of dogs, wrappers, sauce and sauerkraut
• Manicaretti Foods gourmet treats gift basket
• Massa Organics whole-grain brown rice, 20-lb bag, and 2 jars of crunchy almond butter ($60 value)
• Meatpaper: Magazine subscription, Meatpaper tote bag
• NOPA: $100 gift certificate
• McQuade’s Celtic Chutneys: Gift basket of locally made chutneys with Havens Bouriquot and Cowgirl Creamery Mt. Tam cheese
• Oliveto: Gift certificate
• Omnivore Books: $25 gift certificate
• The Palms: Two pairs of two tickets to any concert at the hall in Winters, CA
• Pascal French Oven in Danville: $25 gift certificate
• Piccino Cafe: $100 gift certificate
• Lori Podraza of Goulash Designs: Retro handmade bag and retro handmade apron (separate items)
• Ritual Roasters: Two 12 oz bags of coffee, a mug, and a certificate for 2 free drinks
• Rancho Gordo: Two gift boxes of farmer Steve Sando’s signed cookbook, Heirloom Beans, and beans
• SPQR: $100 gift certificate
• Summer Kitchen Bake Shop: Three of gratin dinners and membership in our Supper Club, which allows guests 10% off all food and drinks including lunch and dinner and 10% off Wine at Vintage Berkeley on College. $75 value
• Tartine bakery: Two $50 gift certificates (separate) and signed Tartine cookbook
• Tartine Bar: $75 gift certificate
• Terzo restaurant: $100 gift certificate
• Yes We Can: 1 case canned dry-farmed and San Marzano tomatoes
• Zuzu Napa: $100 gift certificate

Thank you to all of these generous individuals and businesses!

*If you win a raffle item but don’t live here, we will not be able to ship it; you can opt to donate your prize to a Bay Area friend or let us draw another entrant.

**I will mine the PayPal donation log to get names and email addresses to enter you; ‘fraid I can’t do so with check donations. If you donated by check and want to be entered into the raffle, email me.