Farm Fresh Food Drive in the News

Surrounded by rustling, rolling grasslands, an irrigated pasture, vegetable, grain, and fruit production dotted throughout this agrarian valley, the Summer Practicum Students found themselves at the end of their first week with a visitor at our Friday dinner potluck. Colin Seis hails from Australia, where he manages Winona, a 2,000 acre property producing merino wool,…
Hi! I’m Lyndsey. For the duration of my 20s, I worked as in Concert and Festival Production. It was a very exciting and fun time of my life, and it gave me the chance to travel all over the country and see places I would have never gone to on my own. In 2012, I…
Coming at food through an education in art has allowed me to encounter food as an interplay of texture, color, and flavor outside of more traditional starting points like source and nutritional value or adherence to a specific cultural format. I have conceptually been able to play on ideas of the seasonal as emotional and…
Though food is still plentiful, with only temporary and localized shortages, the threat of the COVID 19 crisis to the food supply is considerable. There is no evidence thus far that the disease can be transmitted via food or packaging (though the virus apparently remains viable on plastic for 2 to 4 days). The real…
*Read part 1 of Michael Foley’s post on Micro-Agriculture here * Making Micro-Agriculture Work I recently made the economic case for micro-agriculture, farming on three acres or less. A handful of farmers in Mendocino County are showing that very small-scale farming can produce a respectable income; and farmers around the country, including some well-known farmer-authors,…
BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL FARMER by Michael Foley The current crop of business advisers for the new generation of farmers sincerely hopes they can help those young farmers to successful farming careers. For them steady and consistent profits define success. Business advisers to farmers have always been convinced they could help farmers achieve such success. But…