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During the week of Thanksgiving, two news stories caught my attention. First, just days before Thanksgiving, the CDC announced that no one in the United States or Canada should eat romaine lettuce. Since early October, the CDC had identified 43 cases of food-borne illness in 12 states that they...
At the end of September, PCFMA received the great news that the proposal we submitted to the Specialty Crop Block Grant program managed by the California Department of Food and Agriculture was selected for funding. Our proposal, titled “Introducing Specialty Crops to Students: Consumption,...
Two weeks ago, I traveled to Washington DC to attend the National Direct Agricultural Marketing Summit organized by USDA. While in Washington, in addition to indulging my inner child by going to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to see the space shuttle Discovery, I joined with other farmers’...
Last month, as PCFMA marked August as Farmers Market Month, we published a series of essays called “The Stakeholder Series.” These essays, available at pcfma.org, explore the important contributions made by four groups – community sponsors, farmers, customers, and local businesses – that make our...