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We are transforming the food system: $1.3 billion in the CA budget!

It takes a movement to transform the food system and ours leaped forward this year. ROC and our AB 125 coalition partners worked closely with Assembly Ag Committee Chair, Robert […]

Progress, Never Perfection: Preliminary Results from Our California Budget Work

Wow, our fingers are crossed for even more good news. There are a huge number of unknowns still related to our sustainable agriculture requests. There is more clarity around healthy […]

S3 – Ep#3 – Unprecedented funding for local, just and regenerative food and farms

S3 – Ep#2 – Imhoff Archives with Temple Grandin, animal behaviorist

S3 -Ep#1 -Season 3 Opener with Tom Philpott, author of “Perilous Harvest”

A Resilient and Equitable Food and Farming System in California

Today, Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D- Hollister) made an exciting announcement about a bill he just introduced called the Equitable Economic Recovery, Healthy Food Access, Climate Resilient Farms and Worker Protection […]

S2 – Ep #27 – Naima Penniman, inspiring poet, is our Season II finale!

Assessing 2020 and Looking Ahead

Remarkably, the pandemic’s forced isolation has had a silver lining! I sense that as a nation we are quieter, less peripatetic, more rooted in our communities. I see more reflectiveness, […]

S2 – Ep#26 – Imhoff Archives with pioneering organic farmer Eliot Coleman

S2 – Ep#25 – Deborah Madison, the Queen of Greens shares her life