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Nature's Touch Nursery & Harvest

You have to grow your food first, we can help you do it for yourself as well as help fill in with Food that is good for our local economy, environment & community.

One person can not do what a community can do together.   

Nature's Touch Nursery & Harvest is a Honest & Ethical Grocery Store, Grab & Go Food, Seasonal EDIBLE & Native Plant Nursery.

Biodynamic & Organic, Clean, Honest & Transparent

  • Humanely Raised Meats. Ranged from Birth to Harvest. As Nature Intended.

  • We raise our own animals and processed them in a USDA-inspected local meat processor under our label Nature's Meat. They are never fed GMOs, soy, corn, or wheat.
Seasonal Cuts, box specials & other meats specials

  • Container to Acre, Melanie can help guide you with your own growing needs. From A to Z of food translation. BUY, EAT, LIVE LOCALLY .

  • MAKE YOUR CONSULTING APPOINTMENT WITH MELANIE AT 805-712-3478

  • Real Local Raw Honey & Use Value Added Bee Products. Nothing is ever wasted.

  • We are wild about pollinators, especially honeybees! Our beeyard is located in West Templeton at Nature's Farm. We farm over 7 acres of orchards, animals, plant nursery stock and row cropping. Plus, we can guarantee over 7 miles of perimeter land that is all wild oak woodlands, native shrubs, and annuals. There are even two hives at the store in Downtown Templeton. We harvest, extract, and bottle the honey several times a year. Every harvest is unique and wonderful. We invite you to come and try it! We sell out every year, so act quickly!

  • Fresh Made Foods Daily

  • Ingredients sourced only through Nature's Touch Nursery & Harvest.

  • Woman-Owned Small Business

  • Melanie is a 4th generation Californian, born and raised on the Central Coast. Along with family they run Nature's Farm (West Templeton) Nature's Meats, the nursery, the store, and Nature's Food - Seasonal Farmed Eatery (commercial kitchen). Nature's Touch has been a part of Templeton for over 24 years. Melanie started the farm store as an option for locals and visitors who wanted more of what her farm and community could offer. To help bring California Farmers and Californians closer. She lives by the motto: "You can not get it any fresher than harvesting and eating from the soil you stand on". To know your soil is to know how safe, clean and honest it truly is." "Know the hands the that touch your food", "Live with in your own community".

  • Nature's Neighbor- Growing From Our Roots Show

  • Listen to our show on Spotify, Google Podcast, RadioPublic and YouTube. Check out all our past shows here or you can find us on all popular podcast platforms.A show where we talk everything about Food, Farming, Family and Home. Home is always the Central Coast Of California. Always, using methods and practices to mimic nature as close as possible. Hoping to stimulate the conversation of how we eat our politics. With the biggest political act we do everyday is what we put on our plate. To always remember, we stand for is what we stand on. BUY, EAT, LIVE LOCAL. EVERYDAY.
https://anchor.fm/natures-neighbor

Humanely Raised Meats. Ranged from Birth to Harvest. As Nature Intended.

We raise our own animals and processed them in a USDA-inspected local meat processor under our label Nature's Meat. They are never fed GMOs, soy, corn, or wheat. Seasonal Cuts, box specials & other meats specials

Container to Acre, Melanie can help guide you with your own growing needs. From A to Z of food translation. BUY, EAT, LIVE LOCALLY .

MAKE YOUR CONSULTING APPOINTMENT WITH MELANIE AT 805-712-3478

Real Local Raw Honey & Use Value Added Bee Products. Nothing is ever wasted.

We are wild about pollinators, especially honeybees! Our beeyard is located in West Templeton at Nature's Farm. We farm over 7 acres of orchards, animals, plant nursery stock and row cropping. Plus, we can guarantee over 7 miles of perimeter land that is all wild oak woodlands, native shrubs, and annuals. There are even two hives at the store in Downtown Templeton. We harvest, extract, and bottle the honey several times a year. Every harvest is unique and wonderful. We invite you to come and try it! We sell out every year, so act quickly!

Fresh Made Foods Daily

Ingredients sourced only through Nature's Touch Nursery & Harvest.

Woman-Owned Small Business

Melanie is a 4th generation Californian, born and raised on the Central Coast. Along with family they run Nature's Farm (West Templeton) Nature's Meats, the nursery, the store, and Nature's Food - Seasonal Farmed Eatery (commercial kitchen). Nature's Touch has been a part of Templeton for over 24 years. Melanie started the farm store as an option for locals and visitors who wanted more of what her farm and community could offer. To help bring California Farmers and Californians closer. She lives by the motto: "You can not get it any fresher than harvesting and eating from the soil you stand on". To know your soil is to know how safe, clean and honest it truly is." "Know the hands the that touch your food", "Live with in your own community".

Nature's Neighbor- Growing From Our Roots Show

Listen to our show on Spotify, Google Podcast, RadioPublic and YouTube. Check out all our past shows here or you can find us on all popular podcast platforms.A show where we talk everything about Food, Farming, Family and Home. Home is always the Central Coast Of California. Always, using methods and practices to mimic nature as close as possible. Hoping to stimulate the conversation of how we eat our politics. With the biggest political act we do everyday is what we put on our plate. To always remember, we stand for is what we stand on. BUY, EAT, LIVE LOCAL. EVERYDAY. https://anchor.fm/natures-neighbor

From Seed to Table and Everything in between.

Do you want to grow your own? Feed yourself and or start a small farm business? With my 25 years plus experiance, I am here to help translate the language of soil, gardening/farming, resourcing, methods, harvesting, the legality of the business in which you desire to do, and carry on the web of food producing in our commuinty.

Contact Melanie @ 805-712-3478 set up an appointment to have her come out and consult your garden/ farm or farm business ideas.

All purchase made must be made in person at our Templeton Store location.

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225  South Main Street

Templeton, Ca 93465

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Saturday, 10am - 4pm

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