Kibo Farm

We are a small family farm partnered with Belden Barns on Sonoma Mountain outside of Santa Rosa, CA. We grow vegetables and tree fruit on four acres and follow all organic principles and practices. Kibo (pronounced kee-bōh) means “wish” or “hope” in Japanese. The choice of a Japanese name comes from Vince’s connection to Japan where he lived and worked for three years, teaching in a remote farming village.

Kibo Farm represents the fulfillment of our wish to find a place where we could grow food for our community and care for the land. In our fields you’ll find everything from heirloom tomatoes and melons to lettuce and baby corn. We grow many kinds of specialty Asian vegetables as well as storage crops like heirloom dry beans, milling corn and popcorn. We work closely with chefs around the region to plan each season’s crop mix and trial new varieties.

The orchard includes over 25 varieties of apples, with fruit chosen specially for cider, as well as over 30 varieties of pears, plums, peaches, quince, and assorted citrus. Almost everything we grow is available through the food hub F.E.E.D. Cooperative, California’s first farmer- and employee-owned fresh produce cooperative. We also sell some of our products under the Belden Barns label (including cider made from our fruit) and in partnership with local CSA farms.

FOR THE 2023 APPLE TRAIL: Our cider truly represents a "taste of place" because every bottle contains the full 26 varieties of apples along with a healthy dose of the pears and quince that we grow in our orchard. In this vintage, Smokehouse and Harrison - two early 1800's American apples - sing the loudest, balancing a surprising brightness with rich tannins. A fully dry cider, this was fermented with wild yeasts and has a dense sparkle stemming from bottle conditioning. You'll find the cider for sale under Belden Barns label.