Agriculture

The Story of the Oishi Family Farm

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 16, 2023

This newsletter is dedicated to the Japanese-American Internees The Oishi family was part of the farming community of Japanese immigrants and Americans of Japanese ancestry who were flower growers …

Filed Under: GoodWorks, The FruitLife Tagged With: AAPI, Agriculture, collage, farming, Japanese farmers, Japanese internment, oishi family, Oishi family farm, San Francisco Flower Mart, topaz relocation camp, US history, world war II

Subsidizing Big Ag

By Charlene Oldham on October 11, 2012

Small Farms Left Out of Farm Bill By Charlene Oldham When the first “farm bill” was created in the late 1930s to help family farms, horses and hand plows were as common on farms as Model …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: ag reform, agricultural reforms, Agriculture, big ag, corn subsidies, factory farms, family farming, farm bill, farm politics, farm subsidies, farmers, farming, farming issues, farming reforms, Farms, food, food politics, food subsidies, health, HFCS, high fructose corn syrup, junk food, organic farmers, organic farming, processed foods, rice subsidies, small farmers, snap, soy oil, soybean subsidies, sustainability, wheat subsidies

Research, Education & Farming

By Judith Redmond on May 16, 2012

By Judith Redmond of Full Belly Farm, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop Years ago, when I was studying at the University of California, I noticed that there was research being done on “organic” …

Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News Tagged With: agricultural research, Agriculture, Capay Valley, capay valley farm shop, capay valley farmshares, changing climate, cooperative extension, Education & Farming, farm shares, fertilizers, food and water watch, full belly farm, herbicides, hot spring, Judith Redmond, organic farming, organic farms, pesticides, Research

Sustainability, Resources, Food Safety are Hot Topics

By Heidi Lewis on February 7, 2012

Winter Farm Conferences By Heidi Lewis The Monterey Peninsula is one of the most beautiful spots in the world, but it wasn't just the sparkly ocean breeze dancing through the pines that brought a …

Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News Tagged With: Agriculture, eco farm, eco farm conference, ecofarm, ecological farming, family farms, farm conferences, organic farming, small farms

Winter Work: How Farmers Finish up the Year

By Heidi Lewis on November 29, 2010

What does winter weather mean for you? A change in work wardrobe from grey to black? From seersucker to faux fur? Maybe a change in your bike commute? We contacted two of the farmers we work with to …

Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News Tagged With: Agriculture, farms in winter, Weather, winter on a farm, winter on the farm