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Latest on CA and The Farm Bill |
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October 25, 2007
This article from the Tuesday, October 23, 2007 SF Chronicle considers the current debates around the Farm Bill and the possible effects on California agriculture. Read on to see how the Farm Bill is shaping up and what you can do to help!
To read full article click here.
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Immigration Impacts CA Fruit and Vegetable Production |
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October 25, 2007
This story from NPR's 10/22 Morning Edition focuses on the impacts of current immigration debates, legislation, and enforcement on CA farming communities and businesses. Labor shortages may force farmers to change their crop plans, and how this might effect CA's fresh fruit and vegetable industry.
For full article click here.
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Scholarship Funds to CA Small Farm Conference Available |
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October 25, 2007
The California Small Farm Conference has just released its annual call for scholarships to attend the conference February 24-26, 2008 in Visalia.
The three-day conference features on-farm tours, educational workshops and networking opportunities. The conference focuses on farming solutions and sharing information on issues, resources, techniques, and opportunities to help small farmers succeed.
The conference provides an opportunity to improve business skills and farming skills and practices through helping link farmers with educational opportunities and with sources of technical and financial assistance. 99 farmers and 15 students were awarded scholarships last year.
The scholarship application is attached and is available on the web site:
www.californiafarmconference.com
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Fresno Planners Consider Food Access |
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Voices from the Field
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October 16, 2007
A senior planner for the city of Fresno, Roots of Change 2007 Planning Fellow Sophia Pagoulatous is making news by incorperating local food systems into city planning efforts.
From The Fresno Bee 10/14/07
Farm fresh
What is a farmers market exactly? That was among questions posed last week at a Community Hunger and Nutrition Forum in Fresno where panelists discussed barriers to neighborhood farmers markets.
Fresno is seeking to do a better job of defining markets and tweaking ordinances to allow the markets in more locations.
"Part of the problem is that farmers markets aren't defined in the zoning code," said Sophia Pagoulatos, supervising planner with the city's Planning and Development Department.
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Winds of Change & The State Board of Food & Ag |
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Blog from ROC's President
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By Michael Dimock
October 1, 2007
I love the fall in a funny way. Crisp and cool mornings, warm and still afternoons, darkness coming ever earlier. The sun is lower, its light more filtered and diffused. A slight sadness, soulfulness, permeates my psyche and the social gatherings of the season. I am surrounded by the end of harvest, death of plants, and of my own emotional attachments, large and small. All seems slower in my inner world.
At the same time, in this year at least (as I have forgotten the details of last year's fall season), the work world moves fast. Opportunity abounds. We are clear about what to do, where to go. More powerful allies are present. It feels like, it appears, that history is now on our side. Change is in the air.
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SF Chronicle Article on the Effects of the Farm Bill on CA Ag |
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September 24, 2007
This San Francisco Chronicle article from Sept. 23 gives a good overview of the
Food and Farm Bill’s paralyzing grip on U.S. agriculture while concentrating on
California’s seemingly miraculous ability to deal with risk without the
aid of the subsidies commodity growers get, and yet still outproduce
every other state. "If California vegetable farmers got crop subsidies,
we might all still be eating iceberg lettuce," says one economist. Read the full article here .
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New Report Links Property Values and Obesity |
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Sept. 14, 2007
Researchers at the University of Washington reported a link between property values and obesity , which confirmed what many have long suspected--that folks who live in low-income areas are more likely to be obese.
The rise of obesity is hardly a new story, but we are learning more all the time, and unfortunately, it seems that things are getting worse. Check out this alarming interactive map from MSN , based on data collected by the Center for Disease Control, and see how much fatter Americans have gotten over the last twenty years.
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