Frecker Farms

Frecker Farms is an organic farm offering fresh produce to Santa Barbara county and surrounding areas for CSA members, local companies and Farmers' Markets

Frecker Farms was founded by Alex Frecker in 2013. We are an 18 acre certified organic row crop farm located in beautiful Carpinteria, CA.

09/30/2025

We are presently producing a plethora of passion fruit.

09/19/2025

Rain kissed squash blossoms = nicest of the season.

09/18/2025

The last few weeks have been some of the busiest of this calendar year. These weeks represent a culmination of months of preparation and physical labor. They also represent:

years of trial and error
navigating group dynamics
establishing company culture
accumulation of tools and infrastructure
years of relationship building
years of reputation building
establishing consistency of harvests
maintaining creativity and sustaining stoke

That reality evokes a variety of emotion…

Stressed?
Beyond belief.

Excited?
Like it’s Christmas every day.

Satisfied?
This emotion ebbs and flows like the tide.

Grateful?
It’s hard to put into words just how grateful I am when I really sit down and think about it, but here it goes…

Tremendous gratitude to everyone who has helped build this farm with me into what it is today.

Gratitude to all of the restauranteurs and farm adjacent businesses that we have had integral and meaningful relationships with over the years.

And a particularly heartfelt gratitude towards all of our farmers market patrons over the years. Y’all are the foundation of what we do here at Frecker Farms.

…beautiful basil bunches harvested yesterday for a very special client.

09/11/2025

IYKYK.

Tomato szn still in full force over here.

09/02/2025

Labor Day shenanigans.

“To eat is an agricultural act.”

- Wendell Berry

08/28/2025

Pretty sure I counted 48 different varieties of organic fruits and vegetables on our market table today

Grateful to grow where we grow, and doing our best attempt to honor the cornucopia that is Central California. It is officially harvest season! Thanks for the photo today Ricky!

08/19/2025

Musings about the future…

Lately, the global chaos both domestic and abroad feels insurmountable. Devastating human issues that are terrifying and dehumanizing. When I get caught thinking about it all at night, it often times leaves me feeling out of control, lost, scared and hopeless.

Then I wake up in the morning and stroll into our seedling house. I gaze upon all of our lettuce starts that Antonio meticulously seeded. Every seed sown by hand at the same depth in each tray to achieve a proper germination.

I start to think about the tireless hours Jose spends mapping out the farm; figuring out which crop will go where, and why.

Broader strokes of individual assignments that are intentionally intertwined.

Intricate systems built and sustained by humans working together with a common goal in mind.

I have no clue how to solve the massive problems human beings face in this world, and I wont even attempt to try. I know at first blush that seems like a hopeless perspective, but I don’t think that is in fact the case.

I have learned in my 37 years of life that I do know how to curate my immediate life to a way of my choosing. I can’t determine all of the outcomes, but I can pick the direction in which I want to go and freely move that way.

I am aware of what a privilege it is to have my perspective and reality, and I think that part of owning that privilege is working to help create a better local environment. Continuing to collaborate with fellow artisans, producers and restauranteurs. Continuing to create and maintain human systems and working to make them sustainable.

I can stay up late at night and worry about the global issues that plague our planet. Quite frankly I’ll never know what the future holds in a broader sense, and ultimately, I have little ability to alter it.

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08/13/2025

California coffee harvest, 2025.
Geisha.

Always so stoked on the diversity that California agriculture has to offer. New adventures and potential abound.

07/29/2025

July.

The earth feels vibrant and alive with a sense of abundance and growth all around. The days are long and the nights short. Optimism is the default when the livin’s easy. Summertime.

06/27/2025

Another seasonal marker.

The first of many…outdoor tomato season is imminent 🍅

06/19/2025

There is no communication in this world except amongst equals.

Prove me wrong.

05/28/2025

Our NEW permanent farm stand making its debut today. 6701 Casitas Pass Road.

We have maintained a weekly farmstand since 2020, open to the public every Wednesday from 10AM - 2PM.

We are now toying with the idea of opening up a farmstand to the public 2-3 days a week in a more permanent space (right across from the weekly make-shift stand). What days do y’all think?! M,W,F?

It’ll take some time to dial it in…but in the meantime, come say hi today, open 10AM - 2PM.

Address

6701 Casitas Pass Road
Carpinteria, CA
93013

Website

http://www.freckerfarms.com/

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