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Alameda County StopWaste (StopWaste.Org) works with businesses to encourage use of reusable transport packaging: reusable totes, reusable pallets and reusable pallet wrap. They are giving away grants of up to $5,000 to buy reusables. You can find a grant application at http://www.usereusables.org/grants. Thanks for sharing this, New Natives!

Grants for Reusable Transport Packaging | UseReusables Use Reusables is offering funding up to $5,000 per approved business or institution, for the purchase of reusable transport packaging. A total of $25,000 in funding is available. Applications are due no later than October 31, 2016. Submissions will be evaluated on a first come first serve basis unti...

Whole Foods Market customers are encouraged to shop at their local stores on April 6th to help provide regional schools with farm-fresh produce. Partnering with CAFF, Northern California and Reno stores will donate 5% of sales to support CAFF's Farm to School program. You can sample produce from local family farmers and learn about CAFF's Farm to School program at specially marked tables!

Entrepreneurial Intensives, 2016-2018 T he sun, soil and glory called you to the farmer’s vocation; a well-organized desk might just keep you there. Join the Farmers Guild along with an all-star line-up of agricultural advocates,...

The Stewardship Assembly and friends would like to invite you to the Harvest Festival on the Fall Equinox, Sunday, September 20, 11am-6pm at the UC Gill Tract Community Farm in Albany.

There will be a variety of free activities including live music, a children's corner, workshops for beginning urban farmers, community-led workshops, a communal feast, and opportunities to get your hands dirty!

Education and Events UPCOMING EVENTS! Click here to see all advertised upcoming events and workshops at the UC Gill Tract Community Farm. SCHEDULE EVENTS! Coming soon.... Information about scheduling field trips...

Would you eat "ugly" food? We'll send a free Buy Fresh Buy Local bumper sticker to the first ten people to respond in a comment.

'Ugly' food to get second chance in Sweden Ugly carrots will be sold cheaply at the participating Coop supermarkets. Photo: Epukas via Wikimedia Commons

Ruhstaller Beer will be featured at CAFF's Celebrate the Solstice fundraising dinner. Their delicious beer embodies their commitment to using California grown ingredients from California hop and barley farmers...yum!

Legacy Crop - Comstock's magazine With J-E Paino at the helm, can Solano County lead the region to a rebirth of hops?

TGIF...looking forward to seeing those farmer-friends at the market this weekend!

Couldn't agree more...

CAFF has launched a new website with lots of great info. to explore, including this page...where you can find out about the many programs we work on throughout the state: http://www.caff.org/programs/

Programs | Community Alliance with Family Farmers CAFF is California’s longest-standing advocate for sustainable agriculture. We connect farmers, businesses, and consumers working to build a better food system. Using our long history and vast amount of experience, we serve California family farmers and their communities through our five main progr…

What does it mean to "Grow better, not bigger"? Well, it means a lot! A better quality of life, better produce, and better soil.

Read more about Farmer Jean-Martin's ideas here:

http://civileats.com/2015/04/21/earn-a-good-living-without-a-tractor-a-market-gardener-tells-you-how/ Thanks Civil Eats!

Earn a Good Living Without a Tractor: A Market Gardener Tells You How According to Jean-Martin Fortier, it isn’t a farmer’s job to feed the world. And he finds it absurd that many U.S.-based food and agriculture companies tell farmers they should do so. “Feeding the world? People in Africa don’t need the U.S. to feed them.” What we need, the Canadian farmer argues, is…

Conversations about food system resilience are crucial, now more than ever!

Even in a Drought, California Farms Have a Future - but They'll Need Control of the Food System... Self-provisioning of resources promotes economic as well as ecological resilience.

Are you a grape grower in the NorthCoast concerned about water management? Attend this workshop to discuss the policy concerning ground water and to discover irrigation efficient practices for your operation!

June 9th: Join CAFF and the Napa County Resource Conservation District at the gorgeous Raymond Vineyards in St. Helena for our next water workshop!