Category: Food & Ag
“I Invite Everyone To Be a Scientist”
Plant tissue culture can help endangered species adapt to climate change. Amateur plant biologist Jasmine Neal’s community lab could make this tech more accessible.
Training Future Farmers To Grow More Than Food
At a Bay Area collective for BIPOC and queer farmers, Brooke Porter and Alexa Levy are fighting to build an inclusive food system from the soil up.
Seeding Urban Gardens with Love
Two Bay Area gardens are getting a boost from a new, country-wide seed sharing model promoting permaculture.
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Composting as a Ritual for Renewal
A farm high in the Contra Costa County hills helps folks learn from the land and connect with nature.
“I Invite Everyone To Be a Scientist”
Plant tissue culture can help endangered species adapt to climate change. Amateur plant biologist Jasmine Neal’s community lab could make this tech more accessible.
Training Future Farmers To Grow More Than Food
At a Bay Area collective for BIPOC and queer farmers, Brooke Porter and Alexa Levy are fighting to build an inclusive food system from the soil up.
Seeding Urban Gardens with Love
Two Bay Area gardens are getting a boost from a new, country-wide seed sharing model promoting permaculture.
The North Monterey County Climate Disaster that Wasn’t
Though the long-sidelined community of Pajaro is finally getting support to stop future flooding, will it be enough? Climate change is not the only culprit.
Orchards Not So Chill with Warmer Winters
The Central Valley’s bread basket of stone fruit and nut trees could suffer from less cool time in future winters. But what’s the tipping point?
Photographing A Valley in Transition
In California’s Central Valley, climate change’s consequences are on full display in these photos, from floods and wildfires to the return of a lost lake.
Un desastre ‘climático’ controversial en el norte del condado de Monterey
Marginada por bastante tiempo, la comunidad de Pájaro finalmente está recibiendo apoyo para prevenir inundaciones. ¿Será suficiente?
Institutional Purchasing Power Directed To Good Food
Bay Area schools, hospitals and other institutions are taking a close look at their food procurement practices to balance the needs of their communities and the environment. A new roadmap provides them with a values-based framework.
Reflecting on Resilience
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Leaders of the Local Grain Economy
While wheat accounts for just under 3% of California’s harvested cropland, a local grain economy has given the crop new significance.
Growing a Rainbow in the Urban Dirt
Debbie Harris directs Urban Adamah, a Jewish urban farm in Northwest Berkeley. She is a farmer by trade but her role at Urban Adamah requires her to be “a horticulturalist, a plumber, a therapist, a teacher, an organizer.”