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A Season of Change

Spring is a time of new beginnings. This spring is particularly full of new developments in the world of food and farming. I begin this post with a quote from […]

S5 – Ep#4 – How Cliff Pollard and Cream Co, Inc. provide the missing middle link in creation of West Coast regional regenerative meat supply chains Released

S5 – Ep#3 – Jacob Katz, senior scientist for the nonprofit California Trout, describes how flexible farmers are a solution to major endangered species problems

S5 – Ep#2 – Leonard Diggs and the Regenerator Project on cultivating the next generation of women and BIPOC farmers and ranchers

The Unaddressed Crisis in Agriculture

Neither the media nor policymakers are sufficiently focused on an existential crisis in American agriculture. Farmers and ranchers are an endangered species. As we do for wolves, salmon and whales, […]

S5 – Ep#1 – Food recovery at scale: Rick Nahmias on the birth and growth of Food Forward

ROC Celebrates 20 Years of Growing the Good Food Movement & Making Change, 2002-2022

The final Pulse and Flipping the Table podcast of 2022 look back on what the ROC team has learned about movement building to make change. Twenty years is a long […]

S4 – Ep#12 – A Look Back at the Roots of Change story in its 20th year of existence

S4 – Ep#11 – Update on the Achieving Resilient Communities project and more with Maureen McGuire, CEO of Ventura County Farm Bureau

Please Think of Us in This Season of Giving

­­­­­I recently reviewed my Facebook posts from the beginning of the Trump era in late 2016. I was struck by two things. First, the movement to create a just, healthy […]