Monthly Archives: August 2013

The latest segment in the Growing California video series, a partnership with California Grown, is “From Service to Harvest,” a story of veterans turning to farming after their service is complete.

There has been a changing of the guard this summer among the California Dog Teams – comprised of specially trained dogs that sniff parcels and are part of the state’s first line of defense against invasive species. Three veteran dogs retired after many years of service, each having reached the mandatory retirement age of nine. Using the concept of “dog …

The Sacramento Visitors and Convention Bureau has produced a video outlining why the Sacramento-area can stake a claim as America’s farm-to-fork capital. CDFA Secretary Karen Ross appears at the 10:30 and 12:55 marks.

http://beta.cerescourier.com/section/11/article/1166/ Despite being the breadbasket of America, many residents in the Central Valley remain hungry in what is a very ironic and unfortunate truth. An estimated 67,000 of the area’s residents in the Valley go hungry every day. Last week, members of the California Department Food and Agriculture convened to discuss the issue of the hunger and food insecurity in …

Cover Crops and Conservation is one of a series of videos on conservation from the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. The series is called, “There’s a Plan for That.”

http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20130817/BUSINESS/308170022/Tons-ag-plastic-get-new-life?nclick_check=1 An agricultural plastics recycling center that will easily dwarf the Salinas Wal-Mart in size is slated to begin operations this fall in the Firestone Business Park, eventually employing up to 500 workers. The deal, brokered by Cassidy Turley Commercial Real Estate Services in Salinas, will bring to Monterey County the newly formed Encore Recycling, a subsidiary spun out of Vernon-based Command …

A group of graduate students in urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs has created the first comprehensive picture of urban agriculture in Los Angeles County. While farming has long been the domain of rural landscapes, increasing interest in the local-food movement, healthy eating and sustainable cities has sparked the growth of farming in urban environments. The …