Monthly Archives: January 2020

By Kate Munden-Dixon and Leslie Roche As California contends with drought, wildfires and other impacts of climate change, a small yet passionate group of residents are attempting to lessen these effects and reduce the state’s carbon emissions. They are ranchers … Continue reading →

Note – Featured farmer Don Cameron is president of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture. There may be a slight delay before the video begins.

By Christine Souza During the next few weeks, beekeepers will finish moving some 2.5 million honeybee colonies into California orchards to pollinate the state’s 1.2 million bearing acres of almond trees. “We’re working really hard to supply a good supply … Continue reading →

By Matt Villano They’re growing more than grapes and produce at Shone Farm in Forestville — they’re growing farmers, too. The 365-acre parcel is both a working farm and an outdoor learning laboratory, the place where students in Santa Rosa Junior College’s … Continue reading →

By Kathy Keatley Garvey (EXCERPTED) On a day too cold for honey bees to fly and nearly too cold for bundled dignitaries to speak, officials celebrated the opening of the newly constructed USDA-ARS bee research facility on Bee Biology Road … Continue reading →

CDFA is pleased to be part of the 40th Eco Farm Conference starting today at Asilomar in Pacific Grove and running until Saturday, January 25. On Friday, January 24, CDFA secretary Karen Ross will be joined by Central Coast congressional … Continue reading →

By Dorany Pineda and Gustavo Arellano They called her “Kiwi Queen” and “Mother Gooseberry.” “Mushroom Lady” and “the “Mick Jagger of the produce world.” The woman who broke the glass ceiling in the testosterone-doused produce world and forever changed the way Americans … Continue reading →