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Annie Main of Good Humus Farm Named 2026 California Farm Champion
By: Evan Wiig, CAFF Director of Membership & Communications Annie Main, co-founder of Good Humus Farm and a longtime advocate for farmers and rural communities, has been named Farm Advocate of the Year as part of the 2026 California Farm Champion Awards, presented by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF).
Summer in the City
A serpent-shaped balloon animal, painted four stories tall, coils around a prickly-pear cactus on the facade of an abandoned grain silo. Across the street, beside a clanking railroad crossing, a hundred papel picados, suspended above picnic tables, rustle colorfully in an evening breeze.
Tell state leaders: Don’t cut $27 million from local food & small farms!
Thank you for joining us to ensure small-scale farmers don’t get left out of this year’s State Budget and for pushing back against Governor Newsom’s proposed cuts to critical local food investments and emergency aid. Please help us get the word out about these requests through whatever channels you can. If you are social media inclined repost our call to action on instagram! The most impactful action you can take is to call your State Senator and Assemblymember (find your rep.
Communications Specialist
Title: Communications Specialist Location: San Joaquin Valley region / Hybrid FTE: 1 FTE Salary: $55,000 – $70,000 annually FLSA: Non-exempt Reports To: Communications Director Other details: Bilingual proficiency required (fluency preferred) CAFF is a California-based membership organization that includes family farmers and other community members passionate about local food, farming, and the environment.
Where We Belong | Made Local Magazine
Pandora Thomas and the Promise of Earthseed Riding on a wicker throne, Frances Louise Thomas, 81 years of age, is carried out from beneath an unseasonably hot sun by four young men to the shade of a mother willow tree. A dog and cat kick up dirt at their feet while a hawk circles above. Only a week past the Equinox, the orchard around them explodes with peach, cherry and pear blossoms. Daughter of South Carolina sharecroppers, Frances knows hot days on the farm.
CAFF on Farmers Markets and Farming During COVID-19
By Evan Wiig / Kali Feiereisel, CAFF HOW CAN CONSUMERS HELP? Most cities and counties in California have deemed farmers markets as “essential services. With the COVID-19 outbreak spreading and shelter-in-place orders coming down across the state, we at CAFF are working hard to keep our local food system running strong, our family farmers in business and our communities safe and healthy.
Legacy of Farm Trails; generosity, hospitality and lots of cooperation - Sonoma West Times and News: News
This article also appears in the current issue of our sister publication, Sonoma Discoveries Magazine A pair of pheasants, wings outstretched but motionless, hang mounted to the wall above Jack and Verna Krout. In the living room of their Petaluma farmhouse, they sit flipping through two maps beside their granddaughter. Both maps depict Sonoma County speckled with little numbers ascribed to farms, ranches and orchards.
CalFresh Market Match program helps keep food dollars local - Sonoma West Times and News: News
When you pay $4.33 for a pound of bacon, the farmer who raised it sees only 59 cents, according to the US Department of Agriculture. And less than one third of the retail price for lettuce trickles back to the farm. A box of cereal? On average, of the $4.69 spent at the grocery store, only a nickel ever finds its way into the farmer’s pocket, while most of it goes to those who distribute, sell and market the final product.
Ag Is Open Space
While sometimes convenient, abbreviations of otherwise unwieldy titles can backfire. Take the SCAPOSD, or the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, these days referred to by most as simply the Open Space District. Yet those few missing words are today jeopardizing the original intent of a public entity voters created in 1990, an omission that last week threatened to derail an innovative proposal to help prepare a new generation of local food producers and land stewards.
Proposed Coastal Plan update ignites debate over winery event centers - Sonoma West Times and News: News
While firefighters battled a third day of the Lake County inferno, at the fire station in Timber Cove, a public hearing ignited a firestorm of its own. Tuesday, Sept. 15, representatives from the county’s Permit & Resource Management Department (PRMD) came to this remote coastal area to present the Preliminary Draft of Sonoma County’s update to the Local Coastal Plan (LCP).
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