When John Wick and his wife, Peggy Rathmann, bought their 540-acre ranch in 1998, it was in bad shape. Located in California’s Marin County, a windswept region northwest of San Francisco Bay, the land had been worn down by overgrazing; the grass was gone and the...
Participants Company Aletha Soule Slow Harvest Amanda Hong EPA Betty Cheng Matter of Trust Caryn Mali Petaluma People Dana Frasz Food Shift Dani Wilcox Farm to Pantry Diana Lara Food Finders Ellen Hopkins Hanna Morris Food Shift Jennifer Grant Farm Josephine Borgeson...
MARCH 9, 2016 Wednesday Focus Sessions 9:00am-10:30am Building and Managing Soils from the Top Down Remediating Urban Soils – Eric “T” Fleisher Most landscapes that we work with in urban, suburban, and even rural environments have a history of severe disturbance and...
The British activist wants the world to stop throwing away so much good food. By Susan Daugherty, for National Geographic PUBLISHED OCTOBER 16, 2014 Editor’s Note: Tristram Stuart is one of National Geographic’s 2014 Emerging Explorers, part of a program...
From our farms to grocery stores to dinner tables, 30 percent of the food we grow is never eaten. We can do better. By Elizabeth Royte, National Geographic PUBLISHED OCTOBER 13, 2014 Spills, spoilage, table scraps, and other losses from the typical American family...
