Caff

JANUARY 10, 2025

We are pleased to see that there are a number of state investments aimed at supporting underserved and small-scale farmers, and there are no proposed cuts to the California Underserved and Small Producer (CUSP) Program or Farm to Community Food Hub Program at CDFA. Including but not limited to: $18.8

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Trisha says niche markets like this are critical to keeping small family farms like theirs alive. “If If we didn’t have Niman Ranch, we wouldn’t be raising pigs…we are a small farm and 225 pigs is just tiny on the scale of the large conventional operations. We don’t have to hire multiple people to run the farm.

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Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

Harvestly, a proud Farms Together partner, is bringing the freshest veggies straight to the SLO Food Bank to nourish the community. 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 50 food banks.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ho`la Farms, a small nonprofit on Hawaii Island, aims to use agriculture to help veterans rebuild a sense of purpose in their lives. Agriculture is a powerful tool for personal healing and community building, the farms co-founder Emily Emmons tells Food Tank. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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Caff

JANUARY 7, 2025

Every year, our community honors individuals, farms, and businesses who are making a positive difference in California. As a second-generation rancher, Rizpah honors her family’s agricultural traditions while confronting systemic barriers in a predominantly white, male-dominated field.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

March started off as a rollercoaster ride when news broke that Farms Togetherour program delivering food sourced from local farmers to food insecure communities across Californiahad been paused indefinitely. Unfortunately, local food is often too expensive for the same community that grew it. the program was restored.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2024

Local Foods Mohawk Valley (LFMV), located in Clinton, New York, wants to forge a future for online farmers’ markets in a post pandemic world. The organization is motivated to increase access to local food and during LFMV’s first year of operation has also boosted farmers’ lifestyles, community relations, and the local economy.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 20, 2025

Rachel Bouressa is a fifth-generation farmer and grazing specialist Rachel Bouressa is a fifth-generation farmer and grazing specialist who operates the Bouressa Family Farm in Waupaca County in central Wisconsin. The programs freeze has resulted in a $60,000 loss for her farm in just one week.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As the general manager of the nonprofit Northwest Connecticut Food Hub (NWC Food Hub) , Giroux spends a lot of time in that station wagon. Food hubs bridge the marketing, sales and distribution channels while taking out any middlemen.” Small, first-generation farms are often susceptible to common business start-up issues.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

Patrick Holden discusses how the centralisation of the food system has given rise to an atmosphere of paranoia about bacteria, which, in turn, is placing a disproportionate regulatory burden upon small producers and processors. After all, if something went wrong, thousands or even millions of people could get sick.

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Caff

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

At this moment, CAFF is working closely with partners across the country, with plans to meet this month with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) to advocate for the needs of family farms.

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Food Tank

MARCH 11, 2025

Gussow was widely hailed as what the New York Times called the matriarch of the eat-locally-think-globally food movement.” ” She was a trailblazer in nutrition education and a staunch critic of the industrialized food system, one of the first to emphasize the link between health and methods of food production.

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Caff

JUNE 11, 2024

Background After months of advocacy, the State Legislature proposed a joint budget agreement that would prevent critical investments in food hubs and small farm emergency relief from getting cut! to CDFA’s Farm to Community Food Hub: Created by former Asm Bloom, this program would create NEW food hubs across California.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Across the city of Atlanta, Georgia, many organizations are working to build a food system that centers community wellbeing with the health of the planet. On April 14, Food Tank is heading to Atlanta to partner with Spelman College and Emory University for the Summit “ Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, and Healthy Choices.”

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 20, 2024

When Maximina Hernández Reyes emigrated from Oaxaca, Mexico, to Oregon in 2001, she was still learning English, had no idea where the food pantries were, and knew very few people. Hernández Reyes was able to secure a small plot in the community garden and started growing food for her family. This was just the beginning.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 10, 2025

Hutton hopes that companies like Niman Ranch with a stronger connection to consumers will help to get more people interested in where their food comes from. Maybe it reverses that trend, where people start realizing a little bit more that food doesn’t just come from the grocery store, says Hutton.

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

Farmers are in the business to make food not waste, but even so, an inevitable 88.7 million tons of food went unsold or uneaten in the United States in 2022 , roughly 38 percent of our nation’s total food supply. The majority of food waste occurs on a consumer level—in homes, restaurants, and grocery stores.

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Caff

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CAFFs 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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The food systems advocate, land steward, and beekeeper came of age during the civil rights movement in Kentucky and has spent five decades working for social and racial justice. In 1972, he founded the Good Foods Co-op in Lexington. Jim Embry sees tending to land as a sacred and spiritual responsibility.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Given the challenges in an industry dominated by factory farms, such as slim profit margins and little control over pricing and markets, between 52 percent and 79 percent of small family farms are at high financial risk. We only have 45 acres, which is a really small farm around here,” says Larson. “We’ve

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Below is a list of definitions for common phrases on food labels. Do you know what “cage-free” means?

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The Farmers Daughter USA

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Bioengineering is one of the modern eras most powerful tools to address food insecurity, climate change, and other sustainability issues. But our ability to bring these transformative crops to market was just dealt a major blow. Early in December, the Northern California District Court vacated rules adopted in 2020 by the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Her family farm has been organic certified since 2006, but it only adopted the ROC standards in June 2022.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2023

On June 29th, Lopes Family Farms hosted a field day with Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) in Princeton, CA focused on rice and duck farming, a Biologically Integrated Farming System (BIFS). For more information on Lopes Family Farm follow them at Lopes Family Farms. *All

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

There are some 90 million dogs in the US alone, and their protein needs are rattling the human food chain. Humans are worried about what’s in dog food, not to mention what dog food is in––way too much non-recyclable packaging. Is there a way to make healthier dog food that won’t burden the planet so much?

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2025

But just around the corner from NASDA, Kaitlyn Kimball was one of a group of farmers who traveled to Capitol Hill with the National Family Farm Coalition who said she cant access $30,000 in funding she already signed a contract for, to implement conservation practices that will make her Connecticut fruit and vegetable farm more self-sufficient.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

But what does this mean for food and farming? Despite calls to the contrary, the agriculture budget has not increased and other changes have left many family farms uncertain about the future. There are two main reasons why agriculture and food do not feature prominently in the budget.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled the most, despite selling something we all need—food. Nevertheless, these farms were honorably scraped together from nothing, their growers much like passionate artists in the field; their art: beautiful, healthy local food.

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Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

Iowa is the number-one pork producer in the United States, but it has relatively few hog farms. Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census data.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. million grant for its soon-to-come vertical farming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs.

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Caff

JANUARY 10, 2023

These cuts will have a huge impact on the future of family farmers and local food. million in cuts to the sustainable agriculture programs such as the Healthy Soils Pogram and the Pollinator Habitat Program The post Family Farms React to Governor’s Proposed Budget, Major Cuts appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Superficially, it is a warm, amusing, easy to read collection of snippets of life on a family farm. The post Lessons from a life on the family farm first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust. The post Lessons from a life on the family farm appeared first on Sustainable Food Trust.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Or being able to go visit family or be there for every basketball game or holiday or wedding…there are a lot of sacrifices that must be taken to get food on everybody’s plate.” With fewer from the next generation taking over family farms, they are often bought by large-scale farmers and consolidated.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t give too much thought to where your food comes from. But recent research from the University of Georgia suggests the unique stresses from farm life may be taking a toll on one of the pillars of the families that make your dinners possible: the women who keep farming families running.

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Caff

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The post One & a half million dollars for family farms in need appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers. DONATE TODAY “COVID has made worse of the inequities that already existed in our community but it has also shown some of our best qualities to come together and support each other.

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