Harvest Time
From zombies to gourmet dinners, farmers are changing the way the urban population thinks about food and farms. The recent Farm to Fork dinner in Sacramento sold out its 160 a plate event in hours. With the "foodie" movement growing strong due to … [Read more...]
Yellow Billed Cuckoo Poposed Habitat to Impact Sacramento Valley
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) have announced the proposed designation of 546,335 acres of critical habitat for the yellow-billed cuckoo. Key areas impacting California will be along the Sacramento, Eel, Kern, Colorado, and Owens Rivers, … [Read more...]
FWA Attends the National Heirloom Exposition
Sandwiched in between a West Virginia seed exchange MESA an organization that brings people from all over the world and teaches them how to farm, FWA spent two days discussing water, drought and storage with a good number of the thousands of people … [Read more...]
Monthly Updates
LONGHORN BEETLE The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this month that it will withdraw its proposal to remove the valley elderberry longhorn beetle from a threatened and Pacific Legal Foundation requested endangered species as on behalf of … [Read more...]
Becoming California
A new series for PBS called Becoming California, sponsored by the California Legacy Project (CLP) is scheduled to start in September of 2014. The CLP mission is to increase knowledge of California citizens about the state in which they live and … [Read more...]
A Perfect Storm of Legislation
In the waning days of this year’s legislative session two bills AB 1739 (Dickerson), SB 1168 (Pavely) (groundwater) were signed by the governor, that will impact the agriculture community for decades to come. The "Perfect Storm" of drought, water … [Read more...]
Annual Dinner, Auction & Raffle – Save the Date
Drought Talk – Family Water Alliance – Our Story
Historic is how the drought of 2014 is being described. Not since 1977 has California seen conditions this dry. When shortages occur there is often an attempt to blame someone. Because California is home to the most densely populated urban area in … [Read more...]
Siskiyou County Loses Appeal
The recent Siskiyou County case filed by The Environmental Law Foundation, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Association and the Institute for Fisheries Resources et al. v. State Water Resources Control Board, et al. in 2010 is an attempt … [Read more...]