Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

Over the past year, the California Association of Food Banks, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, and Fresh Approach worked with over 500 farmers to supply food to over fifty food banks. Over 20 million dollars spent on fresh food, equaling roughly 18 million meals distributed to people in need across the state.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On-Farm Peer Education Event: Sullivan Family Farm Tuesday, September 17, 2024 (1pm - 5:30pm) Sullivan Family Farm (7725 County Road R, Manitowoc, WI 54220) Register: wilocalfood.org/events/sullivan-family-farm-event On-Farm Peer Education Event: Yowela Farms Friday, September 20, 2024 (1pm - 5:30pm) Yowela Farms (2625 Oak Lawn Rd.,

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Half an hour outside Portland, the 50-acre family farm is known for its ice cream and freshly churned cheddar, made from the milk of 20 pastured-grazed cows and sold a stone’s throw away at the farm stand and in a few local restaurants.

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

An increasing number of farmers work with these businesses to sell and distribute goods that would otherwise be left to rot by grocery stores. As much as 78 percent of all their produce comes from family farms and cooperatives.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

The Food Bank works with almost 700 community-based nonprofit partners to distribute more than 9 million meals across metro Atlanta and north Georgia every month. Open Hand Atlanta Open Hand Atlanta distributes healthy meals to people in need, with the vision of eliminating diet-related chronic illnesses.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With grant funding from Travis County, New Leaf purchases all of these crops (including those consumed by farmers and their families) and distributes them free of charge within their respective communities. She has also learned to mix and amend soil and place irrigation pipes in a way that maximizes water distribution.

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Caff

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This bill, just one of many that CAFF successfully advocated for in 2021 , will help create hubs that aggregate not from the far-flung reaches of the world, but from nearby family farms, and help distribute this healthy food to families, schools, businesses and hospitals. WILL YOU HELP US KEEP THIS MOMENTUM GOING STRONG?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Award Highlights NSAC congratulates all LCM recipients, including the following NSAC members: California Alliance of Family Farms (CAFF) , World Farmers , Cultivate Kansas City , Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) , Maine Farmland Trust , Agrarian Trust , and Land Stewardship Project (LSP).

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Food Tank

JULY 5, 2023

ALAS brings gallons of water to Coastside farms once a week and collaborates with several organizations, such as Coastside Hope and Second Harvest Food Bank, to regularly distribute groceries. Each lunch is sponsored by different organizations seeking to support their local farm workers.

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Caff

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Respect for animals, respect for the land and respect for each other – the foundation of a new campaign from Sysco, the global leader in foodservice distribution, and Certified Angus Beef (CAB), a brand known for its commitment to quality beef. farms, up slightly from December 2022 and down slightly from Sept. As of Dec.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

He’s tinkered with different irrigation systems, moving from a sub-surface drip setup to his current above-ground micro-sprayer, which he says has the best distribution of water with the least waste. The farm has changed a lot since his grandfather ran it and grew tomatoes and potatoes. Photography courtesy of Burroughs Family Farms.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 10, 2024

As 2022 unfolded, 82 states, territories, and tribes signed on, ultimately receiving millions in LFPA funding to strengthen farm-to-family programs in their communities. million, or approximately 8 percent of its budget, for distribution in 2023. Tennessee received $8.2 In late 2022, CAFB received $820,000 from Tennessee’s $8.2

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Farm to Community Food Hub Program ($15M): Funds from the passage of AB 1009 will launch a new pilot program aimed at developing new food hubs across California. These food hubs will prioritize the procurement and distribution of produce from small & historically-underserved farmers and ranchers in California!

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 20, 2024

I was volunteering during the pandemic with Outgrowing Hunger to distribute food boxes to families. Through that, I met people from Rockwood CDC , Play Grow Learn , Metropolitan Family Service , and a lot of other organizations. My dream is to grow my farm, to implement jobs for immigrants or anyone who wants to work.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Worse still, many of them have invested large amounts of money in huge buildings to house factory farmed animals, and they are financially exposed with no alternative deployment for the infrastructure they have borrowed on. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The central business owns the farm and infrastructure, with a range of nine businesses operating from the land under share farming arrangements, including a beef operation, lamb operation, chickens, pigs, eggs, trout and more. The produce is all marketed, sold and distributed under a common core brand.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

By focusing my attention off the farm, to the spaces of distribution and marketing that bring food into urban consumers’ consciousness, I have hoped to make rural and agricultural history relevant to people who might otherwise not think much about it.

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Caff

MAY 28, 2021

CAFF also hosted three public virtual meetings with: (1) Karen Ross, Secretary of California Department of Food and Agriculture; (2) Assemblymember Richard Bloom, author of AB 1009; and (3) Assemblymembers Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and Robert Rivas and Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman who all grew up in farming families and are family farm champions.

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Caff

MARCH 24, 2022

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. This Farm to Market Coordinator position is eligible for a bilingual pay differential.

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

Launched in 2015, the hub has provided small farmers access to a shared sales and distribution network serving wholesale buyers like grocery stores, schools, and restaurants, all with a mission of increasing the economic viability of local agriculture and increasing local food access in their community.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

TUNE INTO THE CEREMONY HERE New Farmer of the Year: Miguel Avendano, Siembra y Cosecha Farms A shining example of growth and a collaborative attitude, Miguel Avendano of Siembra y Cosecha Farms has managed to kick start his own farm business while working alongside partners to tackle hunger in his community.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2021

As a farming serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. webinars, field days, etc.)

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While frozen Saskatoon berries from Solstice Berry Farm are currently sold in Co-op locations in Calgary, the Gelowitz’s are in the process of securing the licensing required to sell their berries at other major grocery stores, including Safeway and Sobeys. We’re hopeful to get our frozen berries into a wider distribution,” says Rick.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. CAFF works on-the-ground with family farmers to assist them with climate smart farming, food safety plans, and introductions to new markets.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

The program is intended to develop new wholesale markets for small and mid-scale local farmers, but the program design allows for innovative delivery and distribution of high quality local food into food insecure communities (Sec. Commodities and Crop Insurance Farming is a uniquely risky business.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

At the East Denver Food Hub , NSAC members had an opportunity to tour the facilities and learn about their innovative model for local food aggregation and distribution that supports local farmers and producers and ensures healthy food access for communities across the greater-Denver region and beyond.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s a painful loss knowing that today’s industrial food system rises from the ashes of America’s family farms. Most Americans can agree that we want to see family farms with pastured livestock and tidy croplands dotting the countryside. And it is no accident. Author Austin Frerick.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Johnson, 81, who lives near Lexington, Mississippi, was among thousands deemed to not qualify for settlement money, his family said. Against all odds, their family farm has persisted, part of the just 1 percent of remaining Black-owned farms in the United States. Albert Johnson Jr. Albert Johnson Sr.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Yes, I’m currently actively involved in farming, but in defined ways. I’m a beekeeper and I love all those momma bees that go out and gather pollen and nectar on our 15-acre pollinator conservation project as part of our 30-acre family farm. We need a huge paradigm shift in both the philosophy and the practices of farming.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

“I was actually doing a Zoom call with the Farm Bureau, the state board, and we were talking about broadband and connecting people, and those 11,000 missing locations in our state. Haxby and her family farm corn and soybeans and raise cattle and goats. And I kept glitching out, because I didn’t have an internet hotspot.”

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation. By combining interdisciplinary research, policy innovation, and collaboration, GFI aims to reimagine how food is grown, distributed, and consumed for a healthier planet and better lives.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“I was actually doing a Zoom call with the Farm Bureau, the state board, and we were talking about broadband and connecting people, and those 11,000 missing locations in our state. ” Haxby and her family farm corn and soybeans and raise cattle and goats. And I kept glitching out, because I didn’t have an internet hotspot.”

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the 15 years he spent at Niman Ranch , he increased the network of small family farms raising animals on pasture from 160 to over 850. “We Mannix thinks one reason other companies have failed at expanding grass-fed beef production is that they’ve tried to replicate the commodity approach to distribution and marketing.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The dugouts remained low throughout most of the summer, not only on their family farm, but on the majority of farms in southern and central Alberta. He points out how if the cattle are concentrated in one spot, ranchers can create a more efficient distribution of nutrients across the landscape.

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