Sonoma Grocery Stores and Farm Markets
The city of Sonoma is home to less than 10,000 people but we have a bounty of fresh food at our convenience in local grocery stores and farm markets. The population of Sonoma Valley, which includes Sonoma, Kenwood, The Springs, and Glen Ellen, is roughly 40,000. While tourists love Sonoma Valley for its vineyards and great restaurants, locals love living here for the abundance of well-stocked food stores never more than ten minutes from our front doors.
For starters---and just about anything you might be hungering for---there's Sonoma Market. Founded and still owned by Sonoma Valley native Don Shone, Sonoma Market is actually a sister store of the Glen Ellen Village Market. The Glen Ellen Village Market came first and when I was a kid, it was just a little corner store in an old stone building on Arnold Drive. Don and his wife Sherry built the Glen Ellen grocery store around what had been a butcher shop. Today it's an anchor business in the village. I still call it "Shone's" but more recent arrivals call it "Glen Ellen Market." Whatever you want to call it, it's the place to go for everything from milk, meat, and mouth-watering ready-made meals from off the shelf or behind the deli counter.
Sonoma Valley is also served by a Whole Foods Store, a Safeway, and a Lucky Store. We are also blessed with seasonal farmer's markets here in the city of Sonoma and in Glen Ellen. And those looking for fresh and organic produce will be delighted by what they find at Oak Hill Farm located between Sonoma and Kenwood in my hometown of Glen Ellen. I've got them all mapped out for you below.
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