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Barnraiser Crowd Funding Campaign

Help us Raise the Roof - Support our Barnraiser Campaign! By backing this campaign, you help us improve our advocacy work. We can show politicians there is a real political movement growing in our state. When you back us you get to choose from an amazing list of gifts that reflect the beauty and bounty […]

2016 Legislative Tracker Release Party

Mulvaney's B&L 1215 19th Street, Sacramento

Join Roots of Change and the California Food Policy Council for the release party of the 2016 Legislative Tracker and the 1st Score Card in the heart of the Farm to Fork Capital, Sacramento. Join change makers from all over the state to celebrate advances in food policy and our Good Food Champions in the […]

$25

Dinner at SHED & book “Street Farm: Healing Community”

SHED 25 North Street, Healdsburg, CA

Enjoy a delicious dinner and discussion at the gorgeous Healdsburg SHED with farmer and author Michael Ableman. Receive his new book about his founding of the largest urban farm in north America: Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier. Saturday, January 28, 2017, 6 pm. To attend this event please send […]

$150

Namu Gaji Farmer-Chef Dinner

Namu Gaji 499 Dolores Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Join Executive Chef Dennis Lee and Namu Farmer Kristyn Leach for a family style tasting menu at Namu Gaji in San Francisco's Mission District. At Namu the flavors of your meal begin long before the cooks step into the kitchen. It begins by building community, building soil, and rebuilding heirloom seed stocks. To attend this […]

$200

Lunch with the Queen of Greens

SHED 25 North Street, Healdsburg, CA

Founder of Greens Restaurant, cook book & food author, Deborah Madison, will share her culinary journey, a delicious lunch and provide you her new book, "In My Kitchen". Healdsburg SHED, Sunday April 30th, 2017, 1 pm.

$250

Kayak with Craig McNamara

Sierra Orchards 9264 Boyce Rd, Winters, CA

Join Craig McNamara, organic walnut farmer and President of the State Board of Food and Agriculture, for a one of a kind kayak float down Putah Creek and lunch at Sierra Orchards on Saturday, June 3rd, 2017. This event is SOLD OUT.

$200

Home Cooking with Anya Fernald

Berkeley, CA, United States

Step inside the home kitchen of First Lady of Livestock. Anya Fernald has cooked up some of the most successful enterprises in the world of food: Slow Food Nation, Eat Real Festival, and now Belcampo Inc. Now she'll cook some of her greatest hits for 10 lucky supporters. It promises to be a night that […]

$500

Webinar: Nutrition Incentive Programs – Powerful Obesity Prevention Allies

Online

Please join us for a 90 minute webinar to model nutrition incentive programs in California. They are important allies in the state’s effort to improve healthy food access for low-income people. The call includes case studies with specific information about how local health departments and nutrition incentive programs can collaborate to reach more people. Participants: Michael […]

Lunch & Tour of the Collins Farm

Collins Farm Davis, CA, United States

Just outside of Davis, CA, Rich and Shelly Collins have established and continue to grow a productive, sustainable and diversified farm program that improves the land and health of the involved community. See what the Collins' and the 4 young farmers that share their land have accomplished and enjoy a special farm lunch in their […]

$150