{"id":10982,"date":"2016-05-31T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=10982"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:50:43","slug":"start-up-connects-local-farmers-with-city-dwellers-from-the-university-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/05\/31\/start-up-connects-local-farmers-with-city-dwellers-from-the-university-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-up connects local farmers with city dwellers &#8211; from the University of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/farmcation_hero.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10983\" src=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/farmcation_hero-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Students harvesting crops\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/farmcation_hero-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/farmcation_hero.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Anne Brice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although demand for local food in the Bay Area is on the rise, most small farms struggle to stay afloat. But a new student startup called Farmcation, which grew from a UC Berkeley innovation course called \u201cEat.Think.Design,\u201d is working to connect local farmers with urbanites who want a taste of rural living and are willing to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by Grace Lesser, a business and public health master\u2019s student, and Caitlyn Toombs, who graduated in May with a master\u2019s degree in business, Farmcation isn\u2019t just a promising business model; it\u2019s a way of bringing people together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo both of us, food is so much more than sustenance,\u201d says Toombs. \u201cIt\u2019s a means of creating community, and a way to foster connectedness with the world around us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seeds of Farmcation began to sprout last summer when Lesser and her then-fianc\u00e9 moved to her family\u2019s farm in western Massachusetts, where they grew an acre of vegetables and raised 65 chickens to serve to their 240 wedding guests later that August.<\/p>\n<p>Through the process of growing and providing&nbsp;their own food to guests, Lesser not only saw firsthand how powerful food can be in building community, but also realized just how much work small-scale farming takes.<\/p>\n<p>When Lesser returned to Berkeley in the fall, she and Toombs set out to create a platform that linked food-curious consumers to local farmers seeking extra revenue. Although it\u2019s a mutually beneficial relationship, it\u2019s a connection they say doesn\u2019t always happen on its own. They came up with Farmcation.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent test event for the startup, now in beta, visitors traveled to an organic family farm in the Central Valley, where they took a tour with a farmer, picked strawberries and ate a picnic lunch prepared by chefs from a San Francisco restaurant. These are the types of experiences, Toombs says, that will bring people closer to the food they eat, the land it\u2019s grown on and the people who produce it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, we seek to make our cultural relationship with food less transactional and more relational,\u201d says Toombs. \u201cBeing a part of the farming process is the most transformational thing people can do to change their relationship with food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farmcation plans to finalize its business model this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/startup-connects-local-farmers-city-dwellers\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anne Brice Although demand for local food in the Bay Area is on the rise, most small farms struggle to stay afloat. 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