Monthly Archives: February 2016

This is a profile in 2014 of Jason Brown, who walked away from an NFL career to become a farmer with a commitment to feed the hungry.

Link to California Dairy Research Foundation

(NOTE – a related video follows this story) By Joyce Tsai Fourth-grader Kali Jefferson sat in the Prescott Elementary School lunchroom surrounded by a coterie of friends, the only one among them who hadn’t brown-bagged it that day. “It smells better today,” she said, wrinkling her nose, as she poked her fork into a school cafeteria-prepared Styrofoam tray of barbecue …

Link to National Weather Service

From the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences January 2016 (was) much wetter than the previous Januaries during this drought. Precipitation is modestly above average, as is snowpack, and climatic conditions remain promising. The largest reservoirs are mostly fuller than a year ago, although not nearly to average conditions for this time of year. Groundwater is likely to be recharging, …

By Elizabeth Zach Although Laura Jean Schneider comes from four generations of Midwest farmers, she is uncertain sometimes about her agricultural acumen. For the past two years, she has ranched cattle across 100,000 acres on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico with her husband. It is, she says, dangerous work compared with the farming she once did in …