Food Tank

MAY 29, 2024

Julia Catão Dias, a Specialist in the Sustainable Consumption Program at the Institute for Consumer Protection, tells Food Tank that the large-scale destruction will be especially felt by family farms. Many of them, she says, have not only lost crops, tools, and equipment, but also their homes. The floods’ effects may persist.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, failed shipping logistics forced farmers to dump millions of gallons of milk. The company sources organic milk from 23 family farms, all of which pasture their herds within a 100-mile radius of the company’s Del Norte County cheese plant.

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Caff

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Kendra Altnow shares the history of the LangeTwins Family Winery & Vineyards. On December 5th, the Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a field day at the LangeTwins Family Winery & Vineyard in Acampo, CA. It’s really that systems approach.”

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

When the participating farmers noticed that the logistical and clerical work associated with their growth became too much to manage among them all, Lewington left her job as an X-ray technologist to manage Click Fork’s needs full time. She’s now the general manager, handling the logistics of 60 to 80 co-operative members.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm. Most of the people in our ag program are coming from an agrarian background but are trying to be innovative with new ways to approach farming,” says Leventhal.

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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. purchasing), and adept in both English and Spanish.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 17, 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. Work will also include supporting participatory-development of a shared regional brand identity for local food and farm businesses.

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