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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the coronavirus outbreak's disturbances to daily life, fresh fruits and vegetables are still making their way to farmers markets and community supported agriculture (CSA) boxes. S\u003c/span>ome national grocery store chains might be facing temporary shortages, but local food sources with shorter supply chains have stayed nimble and in demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Last] Monday, we just started getting an influx of messages and emails asking if people could buy directly from us,” says Helena Sylvester, who runs \u003ca href=\"http://www.happyacrefarm.com/csa2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Happy Acre Farm\u003c/a> in Sunol along with her husband. “Our plan was to not start our CSA until June and only sell to restaurants until that happened.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sylvester's plans changed when the farm’s restaurant sales decreased, as many eateries closed their doors once California's shelter-in-place orders mandated take out-only service. “We decided to divert that produce to people instead,” she explains. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B975U9HgYQt/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today the family-owned and -operated farm supplies around 20 boxes a week on a first come, first served basis, and they can be picked up at the farm or a drop-off site in Oakland. Sylvester says the demand is much higher than when Happy Acre was only supplying to restaurants. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Farms] seem like they're either switching to a farm box or, if they already had one, creating more room in there for new members,” notes Sylvester, who has seen many other small farmers adjusting their business models in recent days. “And it seems like there's almost not enough farms for the demand. A lot of people have waiting lists going.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkeley’s\u003ca href=\"https://ecologycenter.org/fm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Ecology Center\u003c/a>, which runs three farmers markets, is committed to keeping all of them open through the coronavirus crisis. In accordance with new guidelines from the California Department of Public Health, their markets, along with others throughout the Bay Area, have installed new safety measures, including stoppage on produce sampling, increased hand-washing and sanitizing stations and social distancing rules. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's kind of above and beyond what you'd even see probably at a grocery store,” said Carle Brinkman, the food and farming program director at the Ecology Center. Brinkman explains that each farmer serves one customer at a time, and a designated person handles payment away from the produce.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-136585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Social distancing guidelines and additional hand washing stations are one of the ways farmers markets like CUESA have adapted to the coronavirus pandemic. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED-768x514.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED-1020x683.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social distancing guidelines and additional hand washing stations are one of the ways farmers markets like CUESA have adapted to the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(CUESA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Customers are also asked to go into vendor areas one at a time and line up six feet apart as they wait to pay. “We're marking out those six-feet-apart spaces with either chalk or tape or cones to ensure the social distancing,” she says, adding that enforcing social distancing has proven to be the most challenging aspect so far. Ecology Center is also waiving all penalties for vendors who call in sick for the duration of the pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/article/cuesa%E2%80%99s-guide-farmers-market-food-pickup-and-delivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CUESA\u003c/a>, whose San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market remains open, is taking similar public health precautions. (CUESA’s Jack London Square Farmers Market is currently on hold through May 1o, and their Mission Community Market returns from winter hiatus on April 9.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our priority is really to make sure that our community is well fed,” says Brie Mazurek, the communications director at CUESA. “There's so much amazing produce in California, so many family farms. We don't want to see any produce sitting in the fields right now when there are hungry people who need to eat.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mazurek noted that open-air farmers markets can easily adapt to social distance-friendly layouts. “There's a lot more room to walk around and maneuver and create space. Especially as some of our vendors have had to opt out,” she says. “It's also just a much shorter supply chain for people. In terms of how this food is getting from the field to the market. There are fewer hands handling it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though restaurant accounts have significantly dwindled, CUESA, Ecology Center and other farmers markets are sorting out how to effectively and safely get fresh produce and pantry items to the surge of people who are cooking at home. “Farmers markets and small and midsize farmers that sell there are poised for resiliency in that they can potentially pivot more quickly to a different business model,” says Brinkman. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The one thing that they're not set up for in terms of resiliency is federal funding,” she continues. “They're often forgotten because they're a smaller size slice of the pie.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-136583\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_2_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Many small farmers across the state depend on farmers markets and restaurants orders that have depleted since shelter-in-place was instituted.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_2_KQED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_2_KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_2_KQED-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_2_KQED-768x514.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_2_KQED-1020x683.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many small farmers across the state depend on farmers markets and restaurants orders that have depleted since shelter-in-place was instituted. \u003ccite>(CUESA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a local level, Ecology Center, a leading member of the California Alliance of Farmers Markets, is advocating that local officials keep farmers markets open as an essential service across California counties that have invoked stricter measures than the state. Farmers markets in Pleasanton and the Peninsula in the \u003ca href=\"https://pcfma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association\u003c/a> network have temporarily closed, for instance, while others in the South Bay recently reopened after a short hiatus. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They're essential for the livelihood of farmers and really essential healthy food access points for the community,” explains Brinkman, emphasizing that CalFresh (formerly known as food stamps) customers rely on farmers markets for fresh produce. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federal efforts are also underway by the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://farmersmarketcoalition.org/farmers-markets-covid19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Farmers Market Coalition\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a national group that advocated that federal dollars from the stimulus package go to small and mid-sized farmers. The $2 trillion dollar bill, which the president signed into law, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/coronavirus-stimulus-bill-farmers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$9.5 billion set aside\u003c/a> for “agricultural producers impacted by coronavirus, including producers of specialty crops, producers that supply local food systems, including farmers markets, restaurants, and schools, and livestock producers, including dairy producers.” Distribution of those funds remains to be seen. 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In accordance with new guidelines from the California Department of Public Health, their markets, along with others throughout the Bay Area, have installed new safety measures, including stoppage on produce sampling, increased hand-washing and sanitizing stations and social distancing rules. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's kind of above and beyond what you'd even see probably at a grocery store,” said Carle Brinkman, the food and farming program director at the Ecology Center. Brinkman explains that each farmer serves one customer at a time, and a designated person handles payment away from the produce.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-136585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Social distancing guidelines and additional hand washing stations are one of the ways farmers markets like CUESA have adapted to the coronavirus pandemic. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED-768x514.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/03/CUESAFerryBuilding_3_KQED-1020x683.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social distancing guidelines and additional hand washing stations are one of the ways farmers markets like CUESA have adapted to the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(CUESA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Customers are also asked to go into vendor areas one at a time and line up six feet apart as they wait to pay. “We're marking out those six-feet-apart spaces with either chalk or tape or cones to ensure the social distancing,” she says, adding that enforcing social distancing has proven to be the most challenging aspect so far. 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Farmers markets in Pleasanton and the Peninsula in the \u003ca href=\"https://pcfma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association\u003c/a> network have temporarily closed, for instance, while others in the South Bay recently reopened after a short hiatus. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They're essential for the livelihood of farmers and really essential healthy food access points for the community,” explains Brinkman, emphasizing that CalFresh (formerly known as food stamps) customers rely on farmers markets for fresh produce. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federal efforts are also underway by the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://farmersmarketcoalition.org/farmers-markets-covid19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Farmers Market Coalition\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a national group that advocated that federal dollars from the stimulus package go to small and mid-sized farmers. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of farmworkers are now carrying a new document with them on the road, in case they get stopped. Barbara Resendiz got hers last Friday, together with her paycheck. The small card explains that the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure-workforce\">considers\u003c/a> her job to be part of the nation's critical infrastructure and that she needs to get to work, despite California's order to shelter in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resendiz works for Sierra Farms, a strawberry grower near Watsonville, Calif. The card recognizes something that she knows to be true, and wishes more people understood. \"What would be great would be for people to know how important we as a community are, not just when there's a state of emergency,\" she said, speaking through an interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But being essential also brings danger. Staying on the job makes it more likely that the virus will spread quickly from one worker to the next — especially when workers are living in crowded temporary housing, sharing rides, and eating together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Western Growers, the leading association of fruit and vegetable producers in California and Arizona, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wga.com/sites/default/files/wg_what_to_do_if_an_EE_tests_positive_for_COVID-19_v3.pdf\">told\u003c/a> its members that farmworkers are covered by guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for \"personnel in critical/essential infrastructure positions,\" such as emergency first responders. According to that guidance, \"these personnel may be permitted to continue work following potential exposure [to the coronavirus] .... provided they remain asymptomatic.\" So if one worker tests positive for the virus, employers are not obligated to send that person's co-workers home as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='coronavirus, covid-19' label='The Latest on the Coronavirus']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few farmworkers, however, are taking matters into their own hands and refusing to work at farms where they don't feel safe. 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A spokesperson for Tyson, the country's biggest poultry processor, wrote in an email that \"we're not able to provide specifics about any team member's health.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials are concerned that farm employees may stay on the job, despite illness, because they need the money. Up to now, farmworkers in California have been entitled to a small amount — three days — of paid sick leave each year. In many other states, workers have been entitled to no paid sick leave at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That just changed, at least temporarily. Congress has \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-employee-paid-leave\">passed\u003c/a> a law — which remains in effect only until the end of 2020 — that requires every employer to provide at least 80 hours of paid sick leave. It also requires employers to provide partial pay to workers who are forced to stay home because their children's schools are closed due to coronavirus concerns. 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"content": "\u003cp>After California wine industry mogul Hugh Reimers illegally destroyed at least 140 acres of forest, meadow and stream in part to make way for new vineyards sometime last winter, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Af30591d5-ec62-48a1-a096-9070c545db3c\">report\u003c/a> from state investigators, state officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/board_decisions/adopted_orders/pdf/2019/19_0045_Hugh%20Reimers%20Krasilsa%20Pacific%20Farms%20LLC_CAO.pdf\">ordered\u003c/a> the former executive of Jackson Family Wines to repair and mitigate the damage where possible. Sonoma County officials also suggested a $131,060 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for environmental activists watching the investigation, fines and restoration attempts aren't going to cut it; they want Reimers — an experienced captain of industry whom they say knew better — to face a criminal prosecution, which could lead to a jail sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want him to be an example of what you can't do here,\" says Anna Ransome, founder of a small organization called Friends of Atascadero Wetlands. In August, the group sent a letter to Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravich, asking that she prosecute Reimers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If winemakers can figure into their budget paying fines and doing minimal restoration work, then what's to stop the next guy from doing the same thing?\" Ransome says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The D.A.'s office did not return requests for comment.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Multiple efforts to reach Reimers for comment were unsuccessful. 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Paul Hobbs Winery is listed by the Sonoma County Winegrowers website as certified sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, multiple agencies \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/press_room/press_releases/2019/pr08022019_rhys_vineyard_enforcement.pdf\">issued a $3.7 million fine\u003c/a> against Silicon Valley entrepreneur and vintner Kevin Harvey after those agencies concluded that he illegally destroyed a Mendocino County wetland and buried a small creek with excavated dirt as he made way for a new grid of grapevines. The wealthy venture capitalist paid the penalty and was allowed to keep the vineyard, which, \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_decisions/adopted_orders/orders/2019/wro_2019-0053_with_set_n_atts.pdf\">according\u003c/a> to state authorities, Harvey \"insisted on retaining.\" This concluded the investigation — as officials determined that the destruction Harvey caused was so thorough and complete that asking him to restore the land to its natural state was futile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Keller, with the group \u003ca href=\"https://eelriver.org/\">Friends of the Eel River\u003c/a> — representing a Northern California watershed that has been impacted by logging and land development — says this type of behavior, combined with agency leniency, renders laws meant to protect forests and watersheds meaningless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As long as there is no jail time, these vineyardists are happy to go ahead and do whatever they want, and the fines are just a write-off — they're a part of doing business for these people,\" Keller says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa County, adjacent to Sonoma and\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the source of perhaps the most expensive cabernet sauvignon outside of Bordeaux, activists are pushing back against a steady conversion of woodland into new vineyards. Kellie Anderson, an independent watchdog who has harried local officials for years to step up enforcement of environmental laws, says the county's planning department has ignored numerous violations by grape growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson says she has watched wealthy winemakers near her home break land preservation agreements, denude streams through illegal tree cutting, cause mudslides after failing to protect cleared slopes against erosion, illegally install deer fencing, which makes habitat inaccessible to animals, and commit other violations of environmental laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are now so many violators in these hills that the county is unable to enforce the rules,\" Anderson says. \"Whether it's lack of will or wherewithal, they aren't doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But David Morrison, director of Napa County's Planning, Building, and Environmental Services Department, says county officials often enforce laws and penalize violators, in part by issuing fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've probably collected about a million dollars in fines in the past five years,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison notes that the legal landscape of Napa County, especially as it pertains to wine production, is very complex, and he says it's easy for rules to be broken without immediate resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more rules you have, the easier it is to violate them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists insist that Napa County is too charitable to an industry they think is harming the environment. In fact, as a gesture of diplomacy, Napa County recently invited winery and vineyard owners who have violated their operating permits, often by exceeding wine production, customer visitation or employee limits, to submit requests for upgraded permits – part of the county's \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2496/Napa-County-Code-Compliance-Program\">Code Compliance Program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They break the law, and instead of the laws being enforced, they're retroactively approving these projects,\" says Geoff Ellsworth, the mayor of the small wine country town of St. Helena, in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellsworth says many of the violations being considered through the Code Compliance Program can directly cause aggravated traffic and air pollution, and that excessive wine production places demands on growers for more grapes. Ultimately, he says, the county's stance on winery violations could lead to more deforestation and water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison says the Code Compliance Program is intended to smooth out violations in a diplomatic way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The county wants to encourage compliance, not be punitive,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for general objections against the wine industry's encroachment into woodlands, Morrison says that even though Napa County's vineyard acreage is growing, their collective footprint on the landscape still remains well within limits set years ago by county planners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ongoing Reimers case, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board issued Reimers, the manager of Krasilsa Pacific Farms, a \"cleanup and abatement\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/board_decisions/adopted_orders/pdf/2019/19_0045_Hugh%20Reimers%20Krasilsa%20Pacific%20Farms%20LLC_CAO.pdf\">order\u003c/a> requiring that he attempt to minimize erosion of sediment that could bury the gravel beds used by spawning salmon and steelhead trout in the Russian River watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Curtis, assistant executive officer with the water board, says an experienced vineyard manager should know about the various permits required for the type of work Reimers conducted. He also says that, had Reimers applied for permits, his agency is unlikely to have approved some of the destructive land alterations that Reimers made, which have already caused heavy erosion into creeks feeding the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/board_decisions/adopted_orders/pdf/2019/190606_BF_er_Krasilsa_NOV.pdf\">notice of violation\u003c/a> that the water board issued to Reimers in June, the wine baron, who has served as president of both Jackson Family Wines and Foley Family Wines, violated section 1311 of the federal Clean Water Act. Knowingly doing so is punishable, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/33/1319\">clause within that law\u003c/a>, \"by a fine of not less than $5,000 nor more than $50,000 per day of violation, or by imprisonment of not more than 3 years, or by both.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/documents/2019/november/reimers-recommended-fine.pdf\">March 21 report,\u003c/a> the Sonoma County Department of Agriculture's investigators wrote that Reimers \"is well aware of the permit requirements for vineyard development in Sonoma County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fine they recommended for Reimers — $131,060 — doesn't match the crime, says Ross Middlemiss, a staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. He says the fine is \"a drop in the bucket\" compared to the value of the property, which is 2,278 acres and worth many millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter early this month encouraging the Sonoma\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>district attorney to pursue the most aggressive punitive action possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If civil penalties and fines aren't enough to deter these bad actors, something more severe needs to be put upon these people who knowingly violate the law,\" Middlemiss says. \"We're hoping to avert another example of a winemaker who bulldozes first, then asks for forgiveness, and gets their permit after the fact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alastair Bland is a freelance writer based in Sebastopol, Calif., who covers food, agriculture and the environment.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After California wine industry mogul Hugh Reimers illegally destroyed at least 140 acres of forest, meadow and stream in part to make way for new vineyards sometime last winter, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Af30591d5-ec62-48a1-a096-9070c545db3c\">report\u003c/a> from state investigators, state officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/board_decisions/adopted_orders/pdf/2019/19_0045_Hugh%20Reimers%20Krasilsa%20Pacific%20Farms%20LLC_CAO.pdf\">ordered\u003c/a> the former executive of Jackson Family Wines to repair and mitigate the damage where possible. Sonoma County officials also suggested a $131,060 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for environmental activists watching the investigation, fines and restoration attempts aren't going to cut it; they want Reimers — an experienced captain of industry whom they say knew better — to face a criminal prosecution, which could lead to a jail sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want him to be an example of what you can't do here,\" says Anna Ransome, founder of a small organization called Friends of Atascadero Wetlands. In August, the group sent a letter to Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravich, asking that she prosecute Reimers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If winemakers can figure into their budget paying fines and doing minimal restoration work, then what's to stop the next guy from doing the same thing?\" Ransome says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The D.A.'s office did not return requests for comment.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Multiple efforts to reach Reimers for comment were unsuccessful. On Nov. 13, a sign posted outside of an address listed for him that appears to be a residence read \"Media Keep Out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Winegrowers, an industry organization that promotes sustainability, also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ransome's concerns have been echoed by other environmental and community activists in Northern California who decry a pattern of winemakers violating environmental laws, paying relatively meager fines for their actions, and eventually proceeding with their projects.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, high-society winemaker Paul Hobbs now grows grapes on at least one small Sonoma County parcel that he cleared of trees in 2011 without proper permits. Though his actions on several locations where he removed trees caused community uproar, officials fined Hobbs $100,000 and allowed him to carry on with his business. Paul Hobbs Winery is listed by the Sonoma County Winegrowers website as certified sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, multiple agencies \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/press_room/press_releases/2019/pr08022019_rhys_vineyard_enforcement.pdf\">issued a $3.7 million fine\u003c/a> against Silicon Valley entrepreneur and vintner Kevin Harvey after those agencies concluded that he illegally destroyed a Mendocino County wetland and buried a small creek with excavated dirt as he made way for a new grid of grapevines. The wealthy venture capitalist paid the penalty and was allowed to keep the vineyard, which, \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_decisions/adopted_orders/orders/2019/wro_2019-0053_with_set_n_atts.pdf\">according\u003c/a> to state authorities, Harvey \"insisted on retaining.\" This concluded the investigation — as officials determined that the destruction Harvey caused was so thorough and complete that asking him to restore the land to its natural state was futile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Keller, with the group \u003ca href=\"https://eelriver.org/\">Friends of the Eel River\u003c/a> — representing a Northern California watershed that has been impacted by logging and land development — says this type of behavior, combined with agency leniency, renders laws meant to protect forests and watersheds meaningless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As long as there is no jail time, these vineyardists are happy to go ahead and do whatever they want, and the fines are just a write-off — they're a part of doing business for these people,\" Keller says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa County, adjacent to Sonoma and\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the source of perhaps the most expensive cabernet sauvignon outside of Bordeaux, activists are pushing back against a steady conversion of woodland into new vineyards. Kellie Anderson, an independent watchdog who has harried local officials for years to step up enforcement of environmental laws, says the county's planning department has ignored numerous violations by grape growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson says she has watched wealthy winemakers near her home break land preservation agreements, denude streams through illegal tree cutting, cause mudslides after failing to protect cleared slopes against erosion, illegally install deer fencing, which makes habitat inaccessible to animals, and commit other violations of environmental laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are now so many violators in these hills that the county is unable to enforce the rules,\" Anderson says. \"Whether it's lack of will or wherewithal, they aren't doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But David Morrison, director of Napa County's Planning, Building, and Environmental Services Department, says county officials often enforce laws and penalize violators, in part by issuing fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've probably collected about a million dollars in fines in the past five years,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison notes that the legal landscape of Napa County, especially as it pertains to wine production, is very complex, and he says it's easy for rules to be broken without immediate resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more rules you have, the easier it is to violate them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists insist that Napa County is too charitable to an industry they think is harming the environment. In fact, as a gesture of diplomacy, Napa County recently invited winery and vineyard owners who have violated their operating permits, often by exceeding wine production, customer visitation or employee limits, to submit requests for upgraded permits – part of the county's \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2496/Napa-County-Code-Compliance-Program\">Code Compliance Program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They break the law, and instead of the laws being enforced, they're retroactively approving these projects,\" says Geoff Ellsworth, the mayor of the small wine country town of St. Helena, in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellsworth says many of the violations being considered through the Code Compliance Program can directly cause aggravated traffic and air pollution, and that excessive wine production places demands on growers for more grapes. Ultimately, he says, the county's stance on winery violations could lead to more deforestation and water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison says the Code Compliance Program is intended to smooth out violations in a diplomatic way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The county wants to encourage compliance, not be punitive,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for general objections against the wine industry's encroachment into woodlands, Morrison says that even though Napa County's vineyard acreage is growing, their collective footprint on the landscape still remains well within limits set years ago by county planners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ongoing Reimers case, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board issued Reimers, the manager of Krasilsa Pacific Farms, a \"cleanup and abatement\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/board_decisions/adopted_orders/pdf/2019/19_0045_Hugh%20Reimers%20Krasilsa%20Pacific%20Farms%20LLC_CAO.pdf\">order\u003c/a> requiring that he attempt to minimize erosion of sediment that could bury the gravel beds used by spawning salmon and steelhead trout in the Russian River watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Curtis, assistant executive officer with the water board, says an experienced vineyard manager should know about the various permits required for the type of work Reimers conducted. He also says that, had Reimers applied for permits, his agency is unlikely to have approved some of the destructive land alterations that Reimers made, which have already caused heavy erosion into creeks feeding the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/board_decisions/adopted_orders/pdf/2019/190606_BF_er_Krasilsa_NOV.pdf\">notice of violation\u003c/a> that the water board issued to Reimers in June, the wine baron, who has served as president of both Jackson Family Wines and Foley Family Wines, violated section 1311 of the federal Clean Water Act. Knowingly doing so is punishable, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/33/1319\">clause within that law\u003c/a>, \"by a fine of not less than $5,000 nor more than $50,000 per day of violation, or by imprisonment of not more than 3 years, or by both.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/documents/2019/november/reimers-recommended-fine.pdf\">March 21 report,\u003c/a> the Sonoma County Department of Agriculture's investigators wrote that Reimers \"is well aware of the permit requirements for vineyard development in Sonoma County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fine they recommended for Reimers — $131,060 — doesn't match the crime, says Ross Middlemiss, a staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>by Sofia Englund\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n[aside tag='sonoma-magazine' num='2' label='More From Sonoma Magazine']\u003cbr>\nTwo weeks after the Kincade fire sparked in northern Sonoma County, local businesses are taking to social media to welcome visitors back to the area. After week-long closures due to power shutoffs and mandatory evacuation orders, they are eager to let the public know that Sonoma County is open for business. And understandably so: in a region where much of the local economy relies on tourism, the effects of natural disasters like the Kincade fire — \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10272861-181/88-percent-containment-for-kincade\">now fully contained\u003c/a> — can linger and negatively impact businesses for weeks, months, even years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second time in two years that fires have burned in Sonoma County during the bustling harvest season — in October 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/sonoma-county-fires-in-40-photographs/\">the Tubbs, Nuns and Pocket fires raged for three weeks\u003c/a>. Last year, smoke from the Camp fire in Butte County blanketed the area in November and, in February of this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/zazu-pulls-out-of-the-barlow-two-months-after-flood/\">floods damaged businesses and homes in Guerneville and Sebastopol\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, the local community remains resilient. Just as in October 2017 and in February of this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10243821-181/close-calls-and-grace-notes?ref=related\">the outpouring of support and generosity is again prevalent\u003c/a>. Sonoma County will recover from this recent blow and while it does, we will continue to celebrate this beautiful place we’re proud to call home. If you’d like to show local businesses a little extra love in the weeks and months to come, we’ve rounded up a few ideas — click on the hyperlinks for details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shop Local\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818.jpg\" alt=\"A customer browses the goods at Miracle Plum in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135386\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-768x520.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-1200x812.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To support Sonoma County stores, consider shopping local this holiday season: For every $100 spent at an independently owned store, $68 stays in the community, according to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. \u003ccite>(Chris Hardy/Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Week-long closures due to power shutoffs and evacuation orders have delivered a blow to local retailers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/local-retailers-affected-by-kincade-fire-and-power-shutoffs-we-need-your-support/\">especially small independently owned stores\u003c/a> already struggling to compete with national chains and online megastores. Many businesses have lost critical sales during the normally busy harvest season as threats of fire have kept customers away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support Sonoma County stores, consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/diy-and-buy-local-at-these-sonoma-county-makerspaces-fairs-and-shops/\">shopping local this holiday season\u003c/a>: For every $100 spent at one of these businesses, $68 stays in the community, according to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. Meanwhile, spending $100 at a big-box store contributes only $32 to the local economy, while the rise of online shopping continues to disrupt traditional retail. Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/category/lifestyle/shop/\">our shopping page\u003c/a> for inspiration, and sign up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/newsletters/\">our Retail Therapy newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Support Sonoma County Farmers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768.jpg\" alt=\"Corrie Leisen of Garden Earth Farm sells food to customers at the Petaluma East-Side Farmers Market at Lucchesi Park on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 in Petaluma, California.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"823\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135388\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-768x494.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-1020x656.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-1200x772.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corrie Leisen of Garden Earth Farm sells food to customers at the Petaluma East-Side Farmers Market at Lucchesi Park on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 in Petaluma, California. \u003ccite>(Beth Schankler/ The Press Democrat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Closed farmers markets, evacuations and lost refrigeration due to power outages have devastated small family farms throughout the region over the last two weeks. Many count on weekly markets as a significant source of revenue and thousands of pounds of perfect produce have been reduced to compost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support your local farmers and ranchers, think about making warm butternut squash soup, braised greens, and French onion soup from local farmers produce or cook up a hearty meat stew with beef from local ranchers. Many farmers also have lots of salad greens to sell quickly — so eat healthily, while helping the farmers. Even better, \u003ca href=\"https://www.farmtrails.org/guide/csas\">join a CSA\u003c/a>, which will help farms throughout the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Year-round \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-sonoma-county-farmers-markets-2019/\">farmers markets\u003c/a> include Petaluma East Side Farmers Market, Santa Rosa Farmers Market, Sebastopol Farmers Market, Sonoma Valley Certified Farmer’s Market. Cloverdale Community Market & Exchange and Windsor Certified Farmer’s Market are open until mid-December. — \u003ci>Heather Irwin\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Eat at Sonoma County Restaurants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Dino Bugica, chef/owner of Diavola grilling vegetables\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135390\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dino Bugica, chef/owner of Diavola grilling vegetables \u003ccite>(Chris Hardy/Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kincade fire has been a triple whammy for local restaurants, who lost power, lost customers and continue to struggle with lackluster tourism. Most restaurants store hundreds of pounds of food in large “walk-in” refrigerators — from meat and dairy to prepared stock, vegetables and fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Tourism Bureau estimates that each power outage costs restaurateurs $4,700, something they can’t easily afford repeatedly. Restaurant workers lose salary, producers lose restaurant business, and it takes months or years to recoup (if at all) when profit margins average 5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been glad to see some restaurants packed in the last few days, but they’ll continue to need local support through the quiet winter season. How to help: Book a holiday party, take a friend out, schedule a date night or just head out by yourself for a glass of wine and an appetizer. You could also eat your way through this list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/dont-take-it-off-the-menu-sonoma-county-dishes-locals-cant-live-without/\">50 dishes locals can’t live without\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2.jpg\" alt=\"Try iconic Sonoma County dishes and support local restaurants at the same time.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Try iconic Sonoma County dishes and support local restaurants at the same time. \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prefer to dine at home? Eat your way through \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/iconic-sonoma-foods/\">this list of iconic Sonoma County foods\u003c/a>. From Liberty Farms duck to Dungeness crab, olive oil to local peaches — you’ve got work to do for a good cause. Find more dining inspiration on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/category/biteclub/\">BiteClub\u003c/a>. — \u003ci>Heather Irwin\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Visit Sonoma County Wineries and Buy Local Wines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Winery\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135391\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Winery \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of the more than 400 wineries in Sonoma County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/latest-update-the-kincade-fires-impact-on-sonoma-county-wineries-and-vineyards/\">only one winery — Soda Rock Winery in Healdsburg — was destroyed by the Kincade fire\u003c/a>. Now that the fire is fully contained, power has been restored and evacuation orders lifted, most wineries and tasting rooms have resumed normal opening hours.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID='bayareabites_134208' align='left' label='More Wineries to Visit']\u003cbr>\nIf you’re planning a visit to Sonoma wine country in the coming weeks and months, you will have plenty to look forward to: in addition to serving award-winning wines, many of the local wineries are hosting holiday events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/latest-update-the-kincade-fires-impact-on-sonoma-county-wineries-and-vineyards/\">Support Alexander Valley wineries\u003c/a>, which were especially impacted by the fire and give a little extra love to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/small-but-mighty-boutique-sonoma-wineries-to-check-out-right-now/\">small wine producers\u003c/a>. New to Sonoma County? Here are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/best-sonoma-wineries-for-first-time-visitors/\">a few great wineries for first-time visitors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discover Healdsburg, Geyserville and Windsor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"Dutcher Crossing Vineyards in Geyserville\" width=\"1200\" height=\"803\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135392\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo-768x514.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo-1020x683.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dutcher Crossing Vineyards in Geyserville \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kincade fire came alarmingly close to Healdsburg, Geyserville and Windsor. It burned 77,758 acres in the surrounding area and destroyed 374 buildings, including 174 homes, but thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10229306-181/after-second-visit-to-alexander\">the valiant efforts of firefighters from across the United States, California and Sonoma County\u003c/a>, devastation on the scale following the October 2017 fires was averted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fire is now fully contained, the three towns — each with its own particular charm — are welcoming visitors again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healdsburg, with its picturesque plaza surrounded by award-winning wineries and restaurants, makes for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/how-to-spend-24-hours-in-healdsburg-according-to-charlie-palmer/\">an idyllic introduction to wine country\u003c/a>. The tiny town of Geyserville, with top notch restaurants, tasting rooms and vintage shops, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/how-to-spend-24-hours-in-geyserville-ca/\">a hidden gem\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2.jpg\" alt=\"Guests do a wine tasting at Grand Cru Custom Crush in Windsor on Thursday, October 25, 2018.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135393\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests do a wine tasting at Grand Cru Custom Crush in Windsor on Thursday, October 25, 2018. \u003ccite>(Beth Schlanker/ The Press Democrat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Windsor is home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/russian-river-brewing-company-close-to-raising-900000-for-wildfire-victims/\">Russian River Brewing Company\u003c/a>'s new state-of-the-art facility and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/10-things-to-do-in-windsor-after-your-pliny-adventure/?gSlide=8\">Grand Cru custom crush\u003c/a>, featuring over fifteen independent winemakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stay in Sonoma County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn.jpg\" alt=\"Grape Leaf Inn in Healdsburg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grape Leaf Inn in Healdsburg \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Escaping the Midwest winter with a trip to Wine Country? Looking for a quick weekend getaway from San Francisco? Or maybe you’re just a Petaluman \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/best-hotels-for-a-staycation-in-sonoma-county/\">in search of a fun staycation\u003c/a> in your own backyard? Rest your head at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/category/stay/\">local hotels\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/sonoma-bed-and-breakfasts-to-check-into-right-now\">inns and B&Bs\u003c/a>, after shopping, drinking and eating your way through Sonoma County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/cheap-trendy-hotels-in-sonoma-county/\">These hotels offer a little extra for those on a budget\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/best-kid-friendly-hotels-in-sonoma-county/\">family-friendly options\u003c/a>, too, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/take-a-peek-inside-the-sonoma-county-hotel-where-sustainability-comes-naturally/\">properties suited for those who are looking for an eco-friendly vacation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Donate money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_110419_Fire2-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Dixon stands next to the ruins of her rental home on Hwy 128 in Healdsburg after it burned in the Kincade fire. Photo taken on Monday, November 4, 2019.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135395\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_110419_Fire2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_110419_Fire2-1200x800-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_110419_Fire2-1200x800-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_110419_Fire2-1200x800-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_110419_Fire2-1200x800-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meghan Dixon stands next to the ruins of her rental home on Hwy 128 in Healdsburg after it burned in the Kincade fire. Photo taken on Monday, November 4, 2019. \u003ccite>(Beth Schlanker/ The Press Democrat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='bayareabites_135217,bayareabites_135105' label='More on Kincade Aid']\u003cbr>\nIf you’d like to support fire recovery efforts in Sonoma County by making a financial donation, there are a number of organizations to consider: \u003ca href=\"https://cfs.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create?setc=1&funit_id=1652\">The Community Foundation of Sonoma County’s Resilience Fund\u003c/a> continues to accept donations to support the mid- and long-term recovery needs of individuals and families; \u003ca href=\"https://latino-community-foundation.networkforgood.com/projects/17203-latino-community-foundation-donate-now\">The Latino Community Foundation’s NorCal Wildfire Relief Fund\u003c/a> supports nonprofits that provide essential sheltering and supportive services to Latino immigrants and farmworkers affected by the fire; \u003ca href=\"https://donorbox.org/undocufund\">The UndocuFund for Fire Relief in Sonoma County\u003c/a> provides direct funding to undocumented immigrants and their families in Sonoma County to help with fire-related expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find more ways to donate money \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/how-to-help-kincade-fire-victims-and-evacuees-volunteer-and-donate/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Donate time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801.jpg\" alt=\"The Redwood Empire Food Bank deployed its emergency response program, Station 3990, during the Kincade fire.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135396\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801-1020x681.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood Empire Food Bank deployed its emergency response program, Station 3990, during the Kincade fire. \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are over 1,500 nonprofits in Sonoma County — many are volunteer operated. If you’re able to donate your time — a little or a lot — this can have a tremendous impact. The best place to start is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.volunteernow.org/\">Volunteer Center of Sonoma County\u003c/a>, which places thousands of volunteers with their “right match” nonprofits annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://refb.org/ways-to-give/make-donation/\">Redwood Empire Food Bank\u003c/a>, the “largest hunger-relief organization serving north coastal California from Sonoma County to the Oregon border,” deployed its emergency response program, Station 3990, during the Kincade fire. To volunteer at the food bank — includes helping out in the kitchen and with food distribution — sign up for a shift \u003ca href=\"https://refb.org/volunteer-opportunities/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find more ways to volunteer \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/how-to-help-kincade-fire-victims-and-evacuees-volunteer-and-donate/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This article originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/after-the-fire-how-to-support-sonoma-county-farmers-restaurants-wineries-and-stores\" rel=\"canonical\">Sonoma Magazine\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nTwo weeks after the Kincade fire sparked in northern Sonoma County, local businesses are taking to social media to welcome visitors back to the area. After week-long closures due to power shutoffs and mandatory evacuation orders, they are eager to let the public know that Sonoma County is open for business. And understandably so: in a region where much of the local economy relies on tourism, the effects of natural disasters like the Kincade fire — \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10272861-181/88-percent-containment-for-kincade\">now fully contained\u003c/a> — can linger and negatively impact businesses for weeks, months, even years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second time in two years that fires have burned in Sonoma County during the bustling harvest season — in October 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/sonoma-county-fires-in-40-photographs/\">the Tubbs, Nuns and Pocket fires raged for three weeks\u003c/a>. Last year, smoke from the Camp fire in Butte County blanketed the area in November and, in February of this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/zazu-pulls-out-of-the-barlow-two-months-after-flood/\">floods damaged businesses and homes in Guerneville and Sebastopol\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, the local community remains resilient. Just as in October 2017 and in February of this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10243821-181/close-calls-and-grace-notes?ref=related\">the outpouring of support and generosity is again prevalent\u003c/a>. Sonoma County will recover from this recent blow and while it does, we will continue to celebrate this beautiful place we’re proud to call home. If you’d like to show local businesses a little extra love in the weeks and months to come, we’ve rounded up a few ideas — click on the hyperlinks for details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shop Local\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818.jpg\" alt=\"A customer browses the goods at Miracle Plum in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135386\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-768x520.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/MIRACLEPLUM024_887818-1200x812.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To support Sonoma County stores, consider shopping local this holiday season: For every $100 spent at an independently owned store, $68 stays in the community, according to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. \u003ccite>(Chris Hardy/Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Week-long closures due to power shutoffs and evacuation orders have delivered a blow to local retailers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/local-retailers-affected-by-kincade-fire-and-power-shutoffs-we-need-your-support/\">especially small independently owned stores\u003c/a> already struggling to compete with national chains and online megastores. Many businesses have lost critical sales during the normally busy harvest season as threats of fire have kept customers away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support Sonoma County stores, consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/diy-and-buy-local-at-these-sonoma-county-makerspaces-fairs-and-shops/\">shopping local this holiday season\u003c/a>: For every $100 spent at one of these businesses, $68 stays in the community, according to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. Meanwhile, spending $100 at a big-box store contributes only $32 to the local economy, while the rise of online shopping continues to disrupt traditional retail. Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/category/lifestyle/shop/\">our shopping page\u003c/a> for inspiration, and sign up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/newsletters/\">our Retail Therapy newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Support Sonoma County Farmers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768.jpg\" alt=\"Corrie Leisen of Garden Earth Farm sells food to customers at the Petaluma East-Side Farmers Market at Lucchesi Park on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 in Petaluma, California.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"823\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135388\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-768x494.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-1020x656.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/BS_042815_FARMERSMARKET1_729768-1200x772.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corrie Leisen of Garden Earth Farm sells food to customers at the Petaluma East-Side Farmers Market at Lucchesi Park on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 in Petaluma, California. \u003ccite>(Beth Schankler/ The Press Democrat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Closed farmers markets, evacuations and lost refrigeration due to power outages have devastated small family farms throughout the region over the last two weeks. Many count on weekly markets as a significant source of revenue and thousands of pounds of perfect produce have been reduced to compost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support your local farmers and ranchers, think about making warm butternut squash soup, braised greens, and French onion soup from local farmers produce or cook up a hearty meat stew with beef from local ranchers. Many farmers also have lots of salad greens to sell quickly — so eat healthily, while helping the farmers. Even better, \u003ca href=\"https://www.farmtrails.org/guide/csas\">join a CSA\u003c/a>, which will help farms throughout the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Year-round \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-sonoma-county-farmers-markets-2019/\">farmers markets\u003c/a> include Petaluma East Side Farmers Market, Santa Rosa Farmers Market, Sebastopol Farmers Market, Sonoma Valley Certified Farmer’s Market. Cloverdale Community Market & Exchange and Windsor Certified Farmer’s Market are open until mid-December. — \u003ci>Heather Irwin\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Eat at Sonoma County Restaurants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Dino Bugica, chef/owner of Diavola grilling vegetables\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135390\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/DIAVOLA268_731881-1200x800-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dino Bugica, chef/owner of Diavola grilling vegetables \u003ccite>(Chris Hardy/Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kincade fire has been a triple whammy for local restaurants, who lost power, lost customers and continue to struggle with lackluster tourism. Most restaurants store hundreds of pounds of food in large “walk-in” refrigerators — from meat and dairy to prepared stock, vegetables and fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Tourism Bureau estimates that each power outage costs restaurateurs $4,700, something they can’t easily afford repeatedly. Restaurant workers lose salary, producers lose restaurant business, and it takes months or years to recoup (if at all) when profit margins average 5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been glad to see some restaurants packed in the last few days, but they’ll continue to need local support through the quiet winter season. How to help: Book a holiday party, take a friend out, schedule a date night or just head out by yourself for a glass of wine and an appetizer. You could also eat your way through this list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/dont-take-it-off-the-menu-sonoma-county-dishes-locals-cant-live-without/\">50 dishes locals can’t live without\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2.jpg\" alt=\"Try iconic Sonoma County dishes and support local restaurants at the same time.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/ZAZU_48_785145-2-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Try iconic Sonoma County dishes and support local restaurants at the same time. \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prefer to dine at home? Eat your way through \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/iconic-sonoma-foods/\">this list of iconic Sonoma County foods\u003c/a>. From Liberty Farms duck to Dungeness crab, olive oil to local peaches — you’ve got work to do for a good cause. Find more dining inspiration on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/category/biteclub/\">BiteClub\u003c/a>. — \u003ci>Heather Irwin\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Visit Sonoma County Wineries and Buy Local Wines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Winery\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135391\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Jordanwinery-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Winery \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of the more than 400 wineries in Sonoma County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/latest-update-the-kincade-fires-impact-on-sonoma-county-wineries-and-vineyards/\">only one winery — Soda Rock Winery in Healdsburg — was destroyed by the Kincade fire\u003c/a>. Now that the fire is fully contained, power has been restored and evacuation orders lifted, most wineries and tasting rooms have resumed normal opening hours.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIf you’re planning a visit to Sonoma wine country in the coming weeks and months, you will have plenty to look forward to: in addition to serving award-winning wines, many of the local wineries are hosting holiday events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/latest-update-the-kincade-fires-impact-on-sonoma-county-wineries-and-vineyards/\">Support Alexander Valley wineries\u003c/a>, which were especially impacted by the fire and give a little extra love to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/small-but-mighty-boutique-sonoma-wineries-to-check-out-right-now/\">small wine producers\u003c/a>. New to Sonoma County? Here are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/best-sonoma-wineries-for-first-time-visitors/\">a few great wineries for first-time visitors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discover Healdsburg, Geyserville and Windsor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"Dutcher Crossing Vineyards in Geyserville\" width=\"1200\" height=\"803\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135392\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo-768x514.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/Dutcher-Crossing-Geyserville-Breezeway-Vineyards-Courtesy-Photo-1020x683.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dutcher Crossing Vineyards in Geyserville \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kincade fire came alarmingly close to Healdsburg, Geyserville and Windsor. It burned 77,758 acres in the surrounding area and destroyed 374 buildings, including 174 homes, but thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10229306-181/after-second-visit-to-alexander\">the valiant efforts of firefighters from across the United States, California and Sonoma County\u003c/a>, devastation on the scale following the October 2017 fires was averted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fire is now fully contained, the three towns — each with its own particular charm — are welcoming visitors again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healdsburg, with its picturesque plaza surrounded by award-winning wineries and restaurants, makes for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/how-to-spend-24-hours-in-healdsburg-according-to-charlie-palmer/\">an idyllic introduction to wine country\u003c/a>. The tiny town of Geyserville, with top notch restaurants, tasting rooms and vintage shops, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/how-to-spend-24-hours-in-geyserville-ca/\">a hidden gem\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2.jpg\" alt=\"Guests do a wine tasting at Grand Cru Custom Crush in Windsor on Thursday, October 25, 2018.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135393\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_102518_GrandCru2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests do a wine tasting at Grand Cru Custom Crush in Windsor on Thursday, October 25, 2018. \u003ccite>(Beth Schlanker/ The Press Democrat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Windsor is home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/russian-river-brewing-company-close-to-raising-900000-for-wildfire-victims/\">Russian River Brewing Company\u003c/a>'s new state-of-the-art facility and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/10-things-to-do-in-windsor-after-your-pliny-adventure/?gSlide=8\">Grand Cru custom crush\u003c/a>, featuring over fifteen independent winemakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stay in Sonoma County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn.jpg\" alt=\"Grape Leaf Inn in Healdsburg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/grape-leaf-inn-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grape Leaf Inn in Healdsburg \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Escaping the Midwest winter with a trip to Wine Country? Looking for a quick weekend getaway from San Francisco? Or maybe you’re just a Petaluman \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/best-hotels-for-a-staycation-in-sonoma-county/\">in search of a fun staycation\u003c/a> in your own backyard? Rest your head at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/category/stay/\">local hotels\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/sonoma-bed-and-breakfasts-to-check-into-right-now\">inns and B&Bs\u003c/a>, after shopping, drinking and eating your way through Sonoma County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/cheap-trendy-hotels-in-sonoma-county/\">These hotels offer a little extra for those on a budget\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/best-kid-friendly-hotels-in-sonoma-county/\">family-friendly options\u003c/a>, too, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/take-a-peek-inside-the-sonoma-county-hotel-where-sustainability-comes-naturally/\">properties suited for those who are looking for an eco-friendly vacation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Donate money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/bs_110419_Fire2-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Dixon stands next to the ruins of her rental home on Hwy 128 in Healdsburg after it burned in the Kincade fire. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIf you’d like to support fire recovery efforts in Sonoma County by making a financial donation, there are a number of organizations to consider: \u003ca href=\"https://cfs.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create?setc=1&funit_id=1652\">The Community Foundation of Sonoma County’s Resilience Fund\u003c/a> continues to accept donations to support the mid- and long-term recovery needs of individuals and families; \u003ca href=\"https://latino-community-foundation.networkforgood.com/projects/17203-latino-community-foundation-donate-now\">The Latino Community Foundation’s NorCal Wildfire Relief Fund\u003c/a> supports nonprofits that provide essential sheltering and supportive services to Latino immigrants and farmworkers affected by the fire; \u003ca href=\"https://donorbox.org/undocufund\">The UndocuFund for Fire Relief in Sonoma County\u003c/a> provides direct funding to undocumented immigrants and their families in Sonoma County to help with fire-related expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find more ways to donate money \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/how-to-help-kincade-fire-victims-and-evacuees-volunteer-and-donate/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Donate time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801.jpg\" alt=\"The Redwood Empire Food Bank deployed its emergency response program, Station 3990, during the Kincade fire.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135396\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/11/redwood-empire-food-bank-1200x801-1020x681.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood Empire Food Bank deployed its emergency response program, Station 3990, during the Kincade fire. \u003ccite>(Sonoma Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are over 1,500 nonprofits in Sonoma County — many are volunteer operated. If you’re able to donate your time — a little or a lot — this can have a tremendous impact. The best place to start is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.volunteernow.org/\">Volunteer Center of Sonoma County\u003c/a>, which places thousands of volunteers with their “right match” nonprofits annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://refb.org/ways-to-give/make-donation/\">Redwood Empire Food Bank\u003c/a>, the “largest hunger-relief organization serving north coastal California from Sonoma County to the Oregon border,” deployed its emergency response program, Station 3990, during the Kincade fire. To volunteer at the food bank — includes helping out in the kitchen and with food distribution — sign up for a shift \u003ca href=\"https://refb.org/volunteer-opportunities/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find more ways to volunteer \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/how-to-help-kincade-fire-victims-and-evacuees-volunteer-and-donate/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>by Lela Nargi\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s most recent drought lasted many long, parched years—eight in some regions—before ending in 2017 to the relief of everyone in and out of agriculture. For the state’s grape growers, it meant respite from parched vines putting out small berries and leaves and showing other signs of stress.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID='bayareabites_68996,bayareabites_130307' label='More on Dry Farming']\u003cbr>\n“It was hard to walk through some vineyards and see vines dying, and there was nothing you could do,” says Tegan Passalacqua, director of winemaking for \u003ca href=\"http://www.turleywinecellars.com/\">Turley Wine Cellars\u003c/a>. “Some vineyards lost 300 vines in one year. Talk to the old timers, and they’ll tell you—they never remember that happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was plenty of suffering to go around, but some vineyards fared less terribly than others—historic parcels east of San Francisco, in Contra Costa County, for example. Planted at the turn of the last century by Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish immigrants, they rely on a technique called dry farming rather than irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these vineyards did not go unscathed during the drought, they did manage to “acclimatize,” says Charlie Tsegeletos, director of winemaking for \u003ca href=\"https://clinecellars.com/\">Cline Cellars\u003c/a>, which owns about 150 acres of heritage vineyards in the county and contracts from another 300 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-4-Charlie-Tsegeletos-700x750.jpg\" alt=\"Cline Family Cellars winemaker Charlie Tsegeletos.\" width=\"700\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135019\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-4-Charlie-Tsegeletos-700x750.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-4-Charlie-Tsegeletos-700x750-160x171.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cline Family Cellars winemaker Charlie Tsegeletos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cline Family Cellars)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All around them, Contra Costa is experiencing an explosion of development. The allure of living amid the old vineyards’ leafy, picturesque rows is, ironically, \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2009/08/10/farmland-conservation-the-important-lesson-of-brentwood-california/\">threatening their continued existence\u003c/a>. Tsegeletos says offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars per acre are hard to pass up for vineyard heirs with little interest in continuing the family business. With development has come concern that if these vineyards disappear, the knowledge the county’s dry farms can offer other wine-growing systems in fast-drying regions may also fade away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critical lesson of dry farming “is that there are options,” says Matt Dees, winemaker at \u003ca href=\"https://www.jonata.com/\">Jonata Vineyard\u003c/a> in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has special relevance in light of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Groundwater-Management/SGMA-Groundwater-Management\">2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act\u003c/a> (SGMA), which will soon begin to \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Groundwater-Management/SGMA-Groundwater-Management\">curtail the amount of water\u003c/a> that can be pumped from 21 critically over-drafted aquifers, several of which are in wine-producing regions. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/08/climate-change-threatens-worlds-wineries-which-grapes-saved/2136457001/\">Some in the industry are already preparing\u003c/a> by shading vineyards, cover-cropping, and seeking out new rootstocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passalacqua says this past, balmy year in California was a “healing” time for vineyards, and sufficient winter rains allowed viticulturists to almost forget the specter of drought. But there’s no looking away from the changing climate. Vintners and winemakers are experiencing “a lot of urgency,” says Allison Jordan, executive director of the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA). “I have great hope that we will find a way through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Tenets of Dry Farming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, while contemplating the extreme variability in recent rainfall, Dees planted two experimental acres of dry-farmed grapes in a Jonata vineyard in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ballardcanyonava.org/\">Ballard Canyon\u003c/a>. He’d gotten to thinking, “What if the drought continues? What if nine inches of rain a year is the new normal? We’d better be ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry farming, a method that’s been used for centuries to grow grapes, almonds, and olives in Mediterranean countries, requires soils with enough structure to hold moisture from \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/LegacyFiles/floodmgmt/hafoo/csc/docs/CA_Precipitation_2pager.pdf\">seasonal rains\u003c/a> for months at a time—in California, these rains happen between October and April. One method is to plant young vines that are grafted to vigorous rootstocks relatively far apart and water them for only their first two years in the ground. The point is to encourage their roots to dig deep into the dirt from which they’ll pull stored rainwater starting in year three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-1-jonata-vineyards-700x468.jpg\" alt=\"Dry farmed grape vineyards\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135020\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-1-jonata-vineyards-700x468.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-1-jonata-vineyards-700x468-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dry farmed grape vineyards \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jonata)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In dry farming, you’re putting resistance into the system,” says Stephen Gliessman, an emeritus agroecologist at the University of Santa Cruz who also co-owns the dry-farmed vineyard \u003ca href=\"http://www.condorshope.com/\">Condor’s Hope\u003c/a> in the Cuyama Valley of northern Santa Barbara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though plenty of wine grape growers in the state practice dry farming, the method represents a drop in the bucket of a $70 billion business. Tightly spaced, high-yield, drip-irrigated vineyards are much in favor; their practices encourage roots to hang out near the surface of the soil, where they expect to find water—and they can’t survive without a frequent fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry-farming yields per acre can be lower; \u003ca href=\"http://www.caff.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Dry-Farming-BMP-Guide_web.pdf\">some estimates\u003c/a> put them at two to three tons per acre, versus three to four tons for premium grapes. Fans of wines made from dry-farmed grapes, however, extoll their more complex flavors. “But vineyards today are too focused on maximizing yields rather than adapting to local conditions so they’re not so dependent on water,” Gliessman says. “They’re using a limited resource, and climate change makes it worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Small Farms Experimenting with New (Old) Methods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gliessman and his neighbors in the near-desert of Cuyama could watch this scenario play out at a vineyard \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/3/6/hmc-vineyard-environmental-review/\">owned by the company\u003c/a> that manages Harvard University’s endowment. North Fork Vineyard’s irrigation system is drawing what Gliessman calls “excessive” groundwater from one of those 21 critically over-drafted aquifers. This water use has raised the hackles of residents, who are waiting to see how SGMA, which spurred \u003ca href=\"http://cuyamabasin.org/assets/pdf/Cuyama-GSP-Section-4-Monitoring-Networks.pdf\">Cuyama’s Groundwater Management Plan\u003c/a>, will affect the valley starting next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard’s vineyard, says Gliessman, is a prime example—although certainly not the only one—of grapes being planted in a manner that is not appropriate for the land and the available water. “Companies growing grapes industrially have to start accepting the fact that water-intensive systems are going to have to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, though, it’s smaller wineries that seem most open to adapting. This is partly to do with finances. Big companies can afford to shell out for increasingly expensive water rights where needed, or purchase additional acres in cooler places, like British Columbia, says David Runsten, policy director of sustainability advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.caff.org/\">Community Alliance with Family Farmers\u003c/a> (CAFF). Smaller operations, he says, “are stuck where they are. But can they dry farm?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-3-grapes-with-cover-crops-caff.jpg\" alt=\"Dry-farmed grapevines with cover crops.\" width=\"640\" height=\"631\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135021\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-3-grapes-with-cover-crops-caff.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-3-grapes-with-cover-crops-caff-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dry-farmed grapevines with cover crops. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CAFF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jonata’s Dees is not the only one trying. More than half of Turley’s 50 vineyards across the state practice dry farming. Cline is experimenting with own-rooted—as opposed to grafted—vines on some near-dry-farmed blocks at its home base in Sonoma; Tsegeletos calls it “risky” due to pest concerns. \u003ca href=\"https://tablascreek.com/\">Tablas Creek\u003c/a>, in Paso Robles, mostly dry farms its roughly 120 acres and has set up 30 acres the “old-fashioned California way,” with vines far apart and no irrigation system installed, according to general manager Jason Haas. He says in those blocks, “Getting into harvest season in the drought years, it looked like there was no drought at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grower can’t just one day decide to up and dry farm. “It requires thinking [in advance] about how to get vines to generate a deep root system,” says Haas; as vineyard parcels come to the end of their lives, though, they can be replaced. Dry farming also isn’t right if soils and rainfall aren’t a match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Haas, Runsten, and Gliessman all think more vineyards could adopt the practice. In Mendocino County, says Runsten, many wineries irrigate their vines, “and I can’t understand why. They’re next to the Russian River and get plenty of rain.” He blames convention—the idea that “this is the way things are done”—and the risk-averse nature of vineyard consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you go farther north and closer to the coast, dry farming becomes more viable,” says Haas. Some winemakers argue that it could even work for \u003ca href=\"http://agwaterstewards.org/practices/dry_farming/\">all of landlocked Napa\u003c/a>, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/wine/article/Napa-wineries-confront-climate-change-by-planting-14308512.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported recently that climate-slammed vineyards are scrambling to try out heat-hardy varietals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spreading the Dry-Farming Gospel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tablas Creek and other vineyards have hosted seminars presented by CAFF to offer up research and help viticulturists think about adjusting the way they grow grapes. Runsten says there’s been a general pooh-poohing of some of CAFF’s projected climate models. On the flip side, Haas sees grower interest in dry farming increasing. “All over, there are people who are terrified” about the shifting climate, he says; to prepare, many of them are willing to try something new to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-2-jonata-matt-dees-drew-pickering-ruben-solorzano-350x525.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Dees (center), with assistant winemaker Drew Pickering (left) and vineyard manager Ruben Solorzano (right).\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135022\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-2-jonata-matt-dees-drew-pickering-ruben-solorzano-350x525.jpg 350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-2-jonata-matt-dees-drew-pickering-ruben-solorzano-350x525-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Dees (center), with assistant winemaker Drew Pickering (left) and vineyard manager Ruben Solorzano (right). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jonata)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two years into his dry-farming experiment, Jonata’s Dees is not a card-carrying convert. “There are people who are taking up the dry-farming torch and saying the old vines are the ideal, but it’s not black and white to me,” he says. He thinks an “integrated” approach that reduces reliance on irrigation but also increases soil health, might be more viable for a lot of vineyards. California’s \u003ca href=\"http://calclimateag.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Healthy-Soils-Fact-Sheet-2018.pdf\">Healthy Soils Program makes grants\u003c/a> to wine grape growers for just that latter purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, watching the young vines in his experimental block dig deep to find water has been eye opening, he says, and perhaps indicates that they’re stronger than he gave them credit for. There’s also “a feeling you get sometimes in vineyards, and this feels really good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAFF received grant money from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to run seminars a few years ago and continues to conduct them when it can. DWR funds other water-use efficiency programs for vineyards, although they are mostly focused on irrigation systems, according to information shared by the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CSWA supports water use reduction goals, too, including improved irrigation systems and monitoring with technology such as drones; encouraging best practices such as cover crop management; and third-party sustainability certification that includes a water component. The Alliance partnered with CAFF to produce some dry-farming case studies, says CSWA’s Jordan, who believes, too, that dry farming could expand in California. “In places where it’s appropriate, I think additional education will help increase rates” of adoption, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even beyond the focus of dry farming, Dees says, “Grumpy old farmers are getting together to talk about [sustainability]. That says a ton.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, efforts to preserve the old vineyards continue. Cline’s Tsegeletos says that the city of Oakley seems genuinely interested in trying to keep them around, offering some rent-free acres. But should development amp up throughout the county, Gliessman says there will be repercussions, and not just for the vineyards. Swimming pools and lawns use a lot of groundwater; pavement “affects the capacity of systems to take in water, get it into the soil system, and help maintain groundwater—it all runs off instead.” Whoever’s left behind to use that water, they’ll have less of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, Gliessman sees something urgent yet less visible at stake. “Taking the place of these small operations are large-scale industrial [ones],” he said. “What we’re losing are people who live on the land, work it, know it and its history, and are committed to sustainability. And that is what the future of agriculture should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This article originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2019/10/03/can-dry-farming-help-save-californias-vineyards/\">Civil Eats\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“It was hard to walk through some vineyards and see vines dying, and there was nothing you could do,” says Tegan Passalacqua, director of winemaking for \u003ca href=\"http://www.turleywinecellars.com/\">Turley Wine Cellars\u003c/a>. “Some vineyards lost 300 vines in one year. Talk to the old timers, and they’ll tell you—they never remember that happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was plenty of suffering to go around, but some vineyards fared less terribly than others—historic parcels east of San Francisco, in Contra Costa County, for example. Planted at the turn of the last century by Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish immigrants, they rely on a technique called dry farming rather than irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these vineyards did not go unscathed during the drought, they did manage to “acclimatize,” says Charlie Tsegeletos, director of winemaking for \u003ca href=\"https://clinecellars.com/\">Cline Cellars\u003c/a>, which owns about 150 acres of heritage vineyards in the county and contracts from another 300 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-4-Charlie-Tsegeletos-700x750.jpg\" alt=\"Cline Family Cellars winemaker Charlie Tsegeletos.\" width=\"700\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135019\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-4-Charlie-Tsegeletos-700x750.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-4-Charlie-Tsegeletos-700x750-160x171.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cline Family Cellars winemaker Charlie Tsegeletos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cline Family Cellars)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All around them, Contra Costa is experiencing an explosion of development. The allure of living amid the old vineyards’ leafy, picturesque rows is, ironically, \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2009/08/10/farmland-conservation-the-important-lesson-of-brentwood-california/\">threatening their continued existence\u003c/a>. Tsegeletos says offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars per acre are hard to pass up for vineyard heirs with little interest in continuing the family business. With development has come concern that if these vineyards disappear, the knowledge the county’s dry farms can offer other wine-growing systems in fast-drying regions may also fade away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critical lesson of dry farming “is that there are options,” says Matt Dees, winemaker at \u003ca href=\"https://www.jonata.com/\">Jonata Vineyard\u003c/a> in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has special relevance in light of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Groundwater-Management/SGMA-Groundwater-Management\">2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act\u003c/a> (SGMA), which will soon begin to \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Groundwater-Management/SGMA-Groundwater-Management\">curtail the amount of water\u003c/a> that can be pumped from 21 critically over-drafted aquifers, several of which are in wine-producing regions. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/08/climate-change-threatens-worlds-wineries-which-grapes-saved/2136457001/\">Some in the industry are already preparing\u003c/a> by shading vineyards, cover-cropping, and seeking out new rootstocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passalacqua says this past, balmy year in California was a “healing” time for vineyards, and sufficient winter rains allowed viticulturists to almost forget the specter of drought. But there’s no looking away from the changing climate. Vintners and winemakers are experiencing “a lot of urgency,” says Allison Jordan, executive director of the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA). “I have great hope that we will find a way through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Tenets of Dry Farming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, while contemplating the extreme variability in recent rainfall, Dees planted two experimental acres of dry-farmed grapes in a Jonata vineyard in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ballardcanyonava.org/\">Ballard Canyon\u003c/a>. He’d gotten to thinking, “What if the drought continues? What if nine inches of rain a year is the new normal? We’d better be ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry farming, a method that’s been used for centuries to grow grapes, almonds, and olives in Mediterranean countries, requires soils with enough structure to hold moisture from \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/LegacyFiles/floodmgmt/hafoo/csc/docs/CA_Precipitation_2pager.pdf\">seasonal rains\u003c/a> for months at a time—in California, these rains happen between October and April. One method is to plant young vines that are grafted to vigorous rootstocks relatively far apart and water them for only their first two years in the ground. The point is to encourage their roots to dig deep into the dirt from which they’ll pull stored rainwater starting in year three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-1-jonata-vineyards-700x468.jpg\" alt=\"Dry farmed grape vineyards\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135020\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-1-jonata-vineyards-700x468.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-1-jonata-vineyards-700x468-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dry farmed grape vineyards \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jonata)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In dry farming, you’re putting resistance into the system,” says Stephen Gliessman, an emeritus agroecologist at the University of Santa Cruz who also co-owns the dry-farmed vineyard \u003ca href=\"http://www.condorshope.com/\">Condor’s Hope\u003c/a> in the Cuyama Valley of northern Santa Barbara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though plenty of wine grape growers in the state practice dry farming, the method represents a drop in the bucket of a $70 billion business. Tightly spaced, high-yield, drip-irrigated vineyards are much in favor; their practices encourage roots to hang out near the surface of the soil, where they expect to find water—and they can’t survive without a frequent fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry-farming yields per acre can be lower; \u003ca href=\"http://www.caff.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Dry-Farming-BMP-Guide_web.pdf\">some estimates\u003c/a> put them at two to three tons per acre, versus three to four tons for premium grapes. Fans of wines made from dry-farmed grapes, however, extoll their more complex flavors. “But vineyards today are too focused on maximizing yields rather than adapting to local conditions so they’re not so dependent on water,” Gliessman says. “They’re using a limited resource, and climate change makes it worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Small Farms Experimenting with New (Old) Methods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gliessman and his neighbors in the near-desert of Cuyama could watch this scenario play out at a vineyard \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/3/6/hmc-vineyard-environmental-review/\">owned by the company\u003c/a> that manages Harvard University’s endowment. North Fork Vineyard’s irrigation system is drawing what Gliessman calls “excessive” groundwater from one of those 21 critically over-drafted aquifers. This water use has raised the hackles of residents, who are waiting to see how SGMA, which spurred \u003ca href=\"http://cuyamabasin.org/assets/pdf/Cuyama-GSP-Section-4-Monitoring-Networks.pdf\">Cuyama’s Groundwater Management Plan\u003c/a>, will affect the valley starting next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard’s vineyard, says Gliessman, is a prime example—although certainly not the only one—of grapes being planted in a manner that is not appropriate for the land and the available water. “Companies growing grapes industrially have to start accepting the fact that water-intensive systems are going to have to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, though, it’s smaller wineries that seem most open to adapting. This is partly to do with finances. Big companies can afford to shell out for increasingly expensive water rights where needed, or purchase additional acres in cooler places, like British Columbia, says David Runsten, policy director of sustainability advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.caff.org/\">Community Alliance with Family Farmers\u003c/a> (CAFF). Smaller operations, he says, “are stuck where they are. But can they dry farm?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-3-grapes-with-cover-crops-caff.jpg\" alt=\"Dry-farmed grapevines with cover crops.\" width=\"640\" height=\"631\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135021\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-3-grapes-with-cover-crops-caff.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-3-grapes-with-cover-crops-caff-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dry-farmed grapevines with cover crops. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CAFF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jonata’s Dees is not the only one trying. More than half of Turley’s 50 vineyards across the state practice dry farming. Cline is experimenting with own-rooted—as opposed to grafted—vines on some near-dry-farmed blocks at its home base in Sonoma; Tsegeletos calls it “risky” due to pest concerns. \u003ca href=\"https://tablascreek.com/\">Tablas Creek\u003c/a>, in Paso Robles, mostly dry farms its roughly 120 acres and has set up 30 acres the “old-fashioned California way,” with vines far apart and no irrigation system installed, according to general manager Jason Haas. He says in those blocks, “Getting into harvest season in the drought years, it looked like there was no drought at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grower can’t just one day decide to up and dry farm. “It requires thinking [in advance] about how to get vines to generate a deep root system,” says Haas; as vineyard parcels come to the end of their lives, though, they can be replaced. Dry farming also isn’t right if soils and rainfall aren’t a match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Haas, Runsten, and Gliessman all think more vineyards could adopt the practice. In Mendocino County, says Runsten, many wineries irrigate their vines, “and I can’t understand why. They’re next to the Russian River and get plenty of rain.” He blames convention—the idea that “this is the way things are done”—and the risk-averse nature of vineyard consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you go farther north and closer to the coast, dry farming becomes more viable,” says Haas. Some winemakers argue that it could even work for \u003ca href=\"http://agwaterstewards.org/practices/dry_farming/\">all of landlocked Napa\u003c/a>, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/wine/article/Napa-wineries-confront-climate-change-by-planting-14308512.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported recently that climate-slammed vineyards are scrambling to try out heat-hardy varietals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spreading the Dry-Farming Gospel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tablas Creek and other vineyards have hosted seminars presented by CAFF to offer up research and help viticulturists think about adjusting the way they grow grapes. Runsten says there’s been a general pooh-poohing of some of CAFF’s projected climate models. On the flip side, Haas sees grower interest in dry farming increasing. “All over, there are people who are terrified” about the shifting climate, he says; to prepare, many of them are willing to try something new to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-2-jonata-matt-dees-drew-pickering-ruben-solorzano-350x525.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Dees (center), with assistant winemaker Drew Pickering (left) and vineyard manager Ruben Solorzano (right).\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135022\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-2-jonata-matt-dees-drew-pickering-ruben-solorzano-350x525.jpg 350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/10/190923-dry-farming-grapes-vineyards-california-wine-2-jonata-matt-dees-drew-pickering-ruben-solorzano-350x525-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Dees (center), with assistant winemaker Drew Pickering (left) and vineyard manager Ruben Solorzano (right). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jonata)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two years into his dry-farming experiment, Jonata’s Dees is not a card-carrying convert. “There are people who are taking up the dry-farming torch and saying the old vines are the ideal, but it’s not black and white to me,” he says. He thinks an “integrated” approach that reduces reliance on irrigation but also increases soil health, might be more viable for a lot of vineyards. California’s \u003ca href=\"http://calclimateag.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Healthy-Soils-Fact-Sheet-2018.pdf\">Healthy Soils Program makes grants\u003c/a> to wine grape growers for just that latter purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, watching the young vines in his experimental block dig deep to find water has been eye opening, he says, and perhaps indicates that they’re stronger than he gave them credit for. There’s also “a feeling you get sometimes in vineyards, and this feels really good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAFF received grant money from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to run seminars a few years ago and continues to conduct them when it can. DWR funds other water-use efficiency programs for vineyards, although they are mostly focused on irrigation systems, according to information shared by the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CSWA supports water use reduction goals, too, including improved irrigation systems and monitoring with technology such as drones; encouraging best practices such as cover crop management; and third-party sustainability certification that includes a water component. The Alliance partnered with CAFF to produce some dry-farming case studies, says CSWA’s Jordan, who believes, too, that dry farming could expand in California. “In places where it’s appropriate, I think additional education will help increase rates” of adoption, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even beyond the focus of dry farming, Dees says, “Grumpy old farmers are getting together to talk about [sustainability]. That says a ton.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, efforts to preserve the old vineyards continue. Cline’s Tsegeletos says that the city of Oakley seems genuinely interested in trying to keep them around, offering some rent-free acres. But should development amp up throughout the county, Gliessman says there will be repercussions, and not just for the vineyards. Swimming pools and lawns use a lot of groundwater; pavement “affects the capacity of systems to take in water, get it into the soil system, and help maintain groundwater—it all runs off instead.” Whoever’s left behind to use that water, they’ll have less of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, Gliessman sees something urgent yet less visible at stake. “Taking the place of these small operations are large-scale industrial [ones],” he said. “What we’re losing are people who live on the land, work it, know it and its history, and are committed to sustainability. And that is what the future of agriculture should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11718100,news_11719669' label='More on Beef']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the environmentally minded carnivore, meat poses a culinary conundrum. Producing it requires a great deal of land and water resources, and ruminants such as cows and sheep are responsible for half of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, according to the World Resources Institute. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why many researchers are now calling for the world to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/08/748416223/to-slow-global-warming-u-n-warns-agriculture-must-change\">cut back on its meat consumption\u003c/a>. But some advocates say there is a way to eat meat that's better for the planet and better for the animals: grass-fed beef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is grass-fed beef really greener than feedlot-finished beef? Let's parse the science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the difference between grass-fed and feedlot beef? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feedlot calves begin their lives on pasture with the cow that produced them. They're weaned after six to nine months, then grazed a bit more on pasture. They're then \"finished\" for about 120 days on high-energy corn and other grains in a feedlot, gaining weight fast and creating that fat-marbled beef that consumers like. At about 14 to 18 months of age, they are sent to slaughter. (One downside of the feedlot system, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/04/02/707406946/some-in-the-beef-industry-are-bucking-the-widespread-use-of-antibiotics-heres-ho\">as we've reported\u003c/a>, is that a diet of corn can lead to liver abscesses in cattle, which is why animals who eat it receive antibiotics as part of their feed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a grass-fed and finished scenario, cattle spend their entire lives on grass. Since their feed is much lower in energy, they are sent to slaughter later — between 18 to 24 months of age, after a finishing period, still on grass, of 190 days. Their weight at slaughter averages about 1,200 pounds compared with about 1,350 pounds for feedlot animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the environmental argument for grass-fed beef? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-fed movement is based on a large idea, one known as \u003ca href=\"https://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/\">regenerative agriculture\u003c/a> or holistic management. It holds that grazing ruminant populations are key to a healthy ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of the hordes of bison that once roamed the prairies. Their manure returned nutrients to the soil. And because these animals grazed on grass, the land didn't have to be plowed to plant corn for feed, so deep-rooted grasses that prevent erosion flourished. Had those iconic herds still been around in the 1930s, the argument goes, they would have helped prevent the catastrophe of the Dust Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth-generation Oregon rancher Cory Carman runs a 5,000-acre \u003ca href=\"https://carmanranch.com/\">grass-fed beef cattle operation\u003c/a>, where grazing is key to restoring ecosystem balance. \"Agricultural livestock are this incredible tool in promoting soil health,\" she says. \"The longer you can manage cattle on pasture range, the more they can contribute to ecosystem regeneration.\"\u003cbr>\n[aside postid='bayareabites_133231,bayareabites_131706' label='About Antibiotics in Beef Production' align='left']\u003cbr>\nReturning cattle and other ruminants to the land for their entire lives can result in multiple benefits, according to organizations like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savory.global/\">Savory Institute\u003c/a>, including restoring soil microbial diversity, and making the land more resilient to flooding and drought. It can boost the nutrient content and flavor of livestock and plants. And because grasses trap atmospheric carbon dioxide, the grass-fed system can also help fight climate change. But it does require more land to produce the same amount of meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Shauna Sadowski, head of sustainability for the natural and organic operating unit at General Mills, puts it, \"Our current model is an extractive one that has left our environment in a state of degradation — eroded soil, polluted water. We have to change the entire paradigm to use natural ecological processes to gather nutrients and build the soil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which type of beef has the smaller environmental footprint?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's complicated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To measure the environmental impact of a farming system, scientists rely on studies known as life-cycle assessments (LCAs), which take into account resources and energy use at all stages. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24216416\">number of past studies\u003c/a> have found lower greenhouse gas emissions associated with the feedlot system. One reason is that grass-fed cows gain weight more slowly, so they produce more methane (mostly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/22/552698446/gassy-cows-warm-the-planet-scientists-think-they-know-how-to-squelch-those-belch\">in the form of belches\u003c/a>) over their longer lifespans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/paige-stanley\">Paige Stanley\u003c/a>, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, says many of these studies have prioritized efficiency — high-energy feed, smaller land footprint — as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The larger the animal and the shorter its life, the lower its footprint. But she adds, \"We're learning that there are other dimensions: soil health, carbon and landscape health. Separating them is doing us a disservice.\" She and other researchers are trying to figure out how to incorporate those factors into an LCA analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X17310338#.WpHorNqe0qU.twitter\">recent LCA study,\u003c/a> led by Jason Rowntree of Michigan State University, that found carbon-trapping benefits of the grass-fed approach. Another recent \u003ca href=\"https://blog.whiteoakpastures.com/hubfs/WOP-LCA-Quantis-2019.pdf\">LCA study\u003c/a>, of Georgia's holistically managed\u003ca href=\"https://www.whiteoakpastures.com/meet-us/about-white-oak-pastures/\"> White Oak Pastures\u003c/a>, found that the 3,200-acre farm stored enough carbon in its grasses to offset not only all of the methane emissions from its grass-fed cattle, but also much of the farm's total emissions. (The latter study was funded by General Mills.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linus Blomqvist, director for conservation, food and agriculture for the Oakland, Calif.-based \u003ca href=\"https://thebreakthrough.org/\">Breakthrough Institute\u003c/a>, however, defends feedlot finishing, pointing out that the difference between the two systems is only the last third of the grass-fed cattle's life. Does the extra amount of pasture time sequester so much carbon that it offsets the advantage of the feedlot? \"We don't actually have very good evidence for that,\" he says.\u003cbr>\n[aside postid='bayareabites_133954,bayareabites_134201' label='More on Nutrition']\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/alison-van-eenennaam\">Alison Van Eenennaam\u003c/a>, a specialist in animal genomics and biotechnology at the University of California, Davis, says grass-fed makes more sense in a country like Australia, which has a temperate climate, large tracts of grassland and no corn belt. But in the U.S., which does have a corn belt that suffers from cold winters, she believes grain finishing is the more efficient way to produce beef. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you know where your grass-fed beef came from? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 75% to 80% of grass-fed beef sold in the U.S. is grown abroad, from Australia, New Zealand and parts of South America, according to a 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.stonebarnscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Grassfed_Full_v2.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Those countries have the advantage of \"vast expanses of grassland, low-input beef that is not finished to a high level and is very inexpensive,\" says Rowntree — even with the cost of shipping it halfway around the world. Most of what comes from Australia is ground beef, not steaks, because the end result of their finishing process tends to be tough. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many U.S. customers who want to support local food are likely unaware of the foreign origin of most grass-fed beef. By law, if meat is \"processed,\" or passes through a USDA-inspected plant (a requirement for all imported beef), it can be labeled as a product of the U.S. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But does it benefit the American farmer?\" Rowntree asks, comparing this market to the sheep industry, \"which lost out to imports from Australia and New Zealand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The popularity of grass-fed beef is pulling U.S.-based multinational companies into the market as well, which will drive prices down further. Meat processor JBS now has a grass-fed line, Tyson is planning a Texas grass-fed program and earlier this year Perdue announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-23/most-grass-fed-beef-labeled-product-of-u-s-a-is-imported\">getting into the market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which system is better for animal welfare?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many grass-fed advocates, this is one of the main reasons for switching to grass-fed beef. After all, cows evolved to live this way. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been on feedlots farms that have outstanding animal welfare, and I've been on small farms that would make you cringe,\" Rowntree says. But he adds, \"Managing cattle on pasture in a grass-finishing system to me epitomizes animal welfare.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nancy Matsumoto is a journalist based in Toronto and New York City who writes about sustainability, food, sake and Japanese American culture.\u003c/em> \u003cem>You can read more of her work \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://nancymatsumoto.com/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/13/746576239/is-grass-fed-beef-really-better-for-the-planet-heres-the-science\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the environmentally minded carnivore, meat poses a culinary conundrum. Producing it requires a great deal of land and water resources, and ruminants such as cows and sheep are responsible for half of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, according to the World Resources Institute. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why many researchers are now calling for the world to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/08/748416223/to-slow-global-warming-u-n-warns-agriculture-must-change\">cut back on its meat consumption\u003c/a>. But some advocates say there is a way to eat meat that's better for the planet and better for the animals: grass-fed beef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is grass-fed beef really greener than feedlot-finished beef? Let's parse the science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the difference between grass-fed and feedlot beef? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feedlot calves begin their lives on pasture with the cow that produced them. They're weaned after six to nine months, then grazed a bit more on pasture. They're then \"finished\" for about 120 days on high-energy corn and other grains in a feedlot, gaining weight fast and creating that fat-marbled beef that consumers like. At about 14 to 18 months of age, they are sent to slaughter. (One downside of the feedlot system, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/04/02/707406946/some-in-the-beef-industry-are-bucking-the-widespread-use-of-antibiotics-heres-ho\">as we've reported\u003c/a>, is that a diet of corn can lead to liver abscesses in cattle, which is why animals who eat it receive antibiotics as part of their feed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a grass-fed and finished scenario, cattle spend their entire lives on grass. Since their feed is much lower in energy, they are sent to slaughter later — between 18 to 24 months of age, after a finishing period, still on grass, of 190 days. Their weight at slaughter averages about 1,200 pounds compared with about 1,350 pounds for feedlot animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the environmental argument for grass-fed beef? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-fed movement is based on a large idea, one known as \u003ca href=\"https://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/\">regenerative agriculture\u003c/a> or holistic management. It holds that grazing ruminant populations are key to a healthy ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of the hordes of bison that once roamed the prairies. Their manure returned nutrients to the soil. And because these animals grazed on grass, the land didn't have to be plowed to plant corn for feed, so deep-rooted grasses that prevent erosion flourished. Had those iconic herds still been around in the 1930s, the argument goes, they would have helped prevent the catastrophe of the Dust Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth-generation Oregon rancher Cory Carman runs a 5,000-acre \u003ca href=\"https://carmanranch.com/\">grass-fed beef cattle operation\u003c/a>, where grazing is key to restoring ecosystem balance. \"Agricultural livestock are this incredible tool in promoting soil health,\" she says. \"The longer you can manage cattle on pasture range, the more they can contribute to ecosystem regeneration.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nReturning cattle and other ruminants to the land for their entire lives can result in multiple benefits, according to organizations like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savory.global/\">Savory Institute\u003c/a>, including restoring soil microbial diversity, and making the land more resilient to flooding and drought. It can boost the nutrient content and flavor of livestock and plants. And because grasses trap atmospheric carbon dioxide, the grass-fed system can also help fight climate change. But it does require more land to produce the same amount of meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Shauna Sadowski, head of sustainability for the natural and organic operating unit at General Mills, puts it, \"Our current model is an extractive one that has left our environment in a state of degradation — eroded soil, polluted water. We have to change the entire paradigm to use natural ecological processes to gather nutrients and build the soil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which type of beef has the smaller environmental footprint?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's complicated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To measure the environmental impact of a farming system, scientists rely on studies known as life-cycle assessments (LCAs), which take into account resources and energy use at all stages. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24216416\">number of past studies\u003c/a> have found lower greenhouse gas emissions associated with the feedlot system. One reason is that grass-fed cows gain weight more slowly, so they produce more methane (mostly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/22/552698446/gassy-cows-warm-the-planet-scientists-think-they-know-how-to-squelch-those-belch\">in the form of belches\u003c/a>) over their longer lifespans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/paige-stanley\">Paige Stanley\u003c/a>, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, says many of these studies have prioritized efficiency — high-energy feed, smaller land footprint — as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The larger the animal and the shorter its life, the lower its footprint. But she adds, \"We're learning that there are other dimensions: soil health, carbon and landscape health. Separating them is doing us a disservice.\" She and other researchers are trying to figure out how to incorporate those factors into an LCA analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X17310338#.WpHorNqe0qU.twitter\">recent LCA study,\u003c/a> led by Jason Rowntree of Michigan State University, that found carbon-trapping benefits of the grass-fed approach. Another recent \u003ca href=\"https://blog.whiteoakpastures.com/hubfs/WOP-LCA-Quantis-2019.pdf\">LCA study\u003c/a>, of Georgia's holistically managed\u003ca href=\"https://www.whiteoakpastures.com/meet-us/about-white-oak-pastures/\"> White Oak Pastures\u003c/a>, found that the 3,200-acre farm stored enough carbon in its grasses to offset not only all of the methane emissions from its grass-fed cattle, but also much of the farm's total emissions. (The latter study was funded by General Mills.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linus Blomqvist, director for conservation, food and agriculture for the Oakland, Calif.-based \u003ca href=\"https://thebreakthrough.org/\">Breakthrough Institute\u003c/a>, however, defends feedlot finishing, pointing out that the difference between the two systems is only the last third of the grass-fed cattle's life. Does the extra amount of pasture time sequester so much carbon that it offsets the advantage of the feedlot? \"We don't actually have very good evidence for that,\" he says.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[aside postID='bayareabites_133954,science_1922099,bayareabites_133521' label='More Food Science News']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If everyone around the globe began to eat the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables, there wouldn't be enough to go around. That's the conclusion of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(19)30095-6/fulltext\">new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, only about 55% of people around the globe live in countries with adequate availability of fruits and vegetables – enough to meet the \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/fruit/en/\">World Health Organization's minimum target of 400 grams per person, per day\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With economic growth, presumably, production will expand. But the researchers project that by 2050, an estimated 1.5 billion more people will live in places with insufficient supply – unless challenges such as food waste and improved productivity are solved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report comes at a time when poor diets are a leading cause of premature death. In fact, a recent study found\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/04/03/709507504/bad-diets-are-responsible-for-more-deaths-than-smoking-global-study-finds\">diets are now responsible for more deaths than smoking\u003c/a> around the globe. And it's become increasingly clear that current dietary patterns are detrimental to the environment, too. Recent studies, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/01/27/688765872/this-diet-is-better-for-the-planet-but-is-it-better-for-you-too\">EAT-Lancet study\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://globalnutritionreport.org/\">Global Nutrition Report\u003c/a>, have pointed to the need for a radical shift in the food system aimed at nudging people toward more nutritious and sustainable diets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Current diets are detrimental to both human and planetary health and shifting towards more balanced, predominantly plant-based diets is seen as crucial to improving both,\" write the authors of the new \u003cem>Lancet Planetary Health\u003c/em> study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the global supply of calories is more than enough to meet consumption. But many people eat poor-quality diets \"characterized by cheap calories, highly processed foods and overconsumption,\" the study concludes. These factors promote obesity – so we now live in a world where many people are simultaneously overweight and malnourished. The challenge is to promote a food system that moves \"its focus from quantity toward dietary quality and health,\" The authors conclude. The study authors include researchers from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ifpri.org/\">International Food Policy Research Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csiro.au/\">Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation\u003c/a> in Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors argue that several actions are needed to meet the challenges: increased investments in fruit and vegetable production; increased efforts to educate people about the importance of healthy diets; and – given that about one-third of food produced globally is wasted – new technologies and practices to reduce food waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The predictions for fruit and vegetable shortfalls are based on modeling. The researchers draw on food production data, but there is uncertainty in their estimates, given factors such as a lack of data on global waste. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, they forecast that several countries will make gains in the availability of produce — such as India and Morocco. But Mexico and several countries in Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific region will likely fail to have adequate supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"http://www.sustainablefoodfuture.org/executive-summary-synthesis\">new report released Tuesday\u003c/a>, from the World Resources Institute, focuses on ways to reform the food system to improve the health of the planet. It's a deep-dive that's been years in the making by a group of widely respected, science-based analysts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that we need to close three key gaps in order to feed the projected 9.8 billion people that will inhabit the planet by 2050: the food gap, the land gap and the greenhouse gas gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this: The difference between the amount of food produced in 2010 and the amount we need by 2050 is an estimated \u003cem>7,400 trillion calories\u003c/em>, according to the report. Yes, the number is so big that it's hard to imagine it. But the bottom line is, we need to get more calories from the world's current cropland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way to do this is through improvements in breeding and technological advancements. The report spells out other fixes, too, including reducing the use of biofuels that divert edible crops to produce energy and reducing food waste. 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If today's consumption trends continue, but agricultural productivity does not increase (beyond 2010 levels), the report concludes that we would have to clear most of the globe's remaining forests to feed the world. And we'd exceed the greenhouse gas emission targets set by the Paris Agreement, which call for holding global warming below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruminant livestock (including cattle, sheep and goats) use an estimated two-thirds of all the land dedicated to agriculture and contribute about half of the greenhouse gas emissions linked to agriculture. Demand for meat is growing as more people, in more countries, can afford it. But the report concludes that cutting back on ruminant meat consumption could have a significant impact. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The WRI estimates that if people in the U.S. and other heavy meat-eating countries reduced their consumption of beef (and other meat from ruminants) to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/04/6-pressing-questions-about-beef-and-climate-change-answered\">about 1.5 burgers per person\u003c/a>, per week, it would \"nearly eliminate the need for additional agricultural expansion (and associated deforestation), even in a world with 10 billion people.\" (The Better Buying Lab, an arm of WRI that focuses on getting people to eat more sustainably, has come up with some \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/02/10/692114918/how-to-get-meat-eaters-to-eat-more-plant-based-foods-make-their-mouths-water\">clever research-backed marketing ideas\u003c/a> to get people to make the plant-centric switch.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The WRI's new findings are similar to recommendation made earlier this year by the EAT- Lancet study. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Current diets are detrimental to both human and planetary health and shifting towards more balanced, predominantly plant-based diets is seen as crucial to improving both,\" write the authors of the new \u003cem>Lancet Planetary Health\u003c/em> study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the global supply of calories is more than enough to meet consumption. But many people eat poor-quality diets \"characterized by cheap calories, highly processed foods and overconsumption,\" the study concludes. These factors promote obesity – so we now live in a world where many people are simultaneously overweight and malnourished. The challenge is to promote a food system that moves \"its focus from quantity toward dietary quality and health,\" The authors conclude. The study authors include researchers from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ifpri.org/\">International Food Policy Research Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csiro.au/\">Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation\u003c/a> in Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors argue that several actions are needed to meet the challenges: increased investments in fruit and vegetable production; increased efforts to educate people about the importance of healthy diets; and – given that about one-third of food produced globally is wasted – new technologies and practices to reduce food waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The predictions for fruit and vegetable shortfalls are based on modeling. 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(The group \u003ca href=\"http://www.refed.com/\">ReFED\u003c/a> has laid out these cost-effective strategies to cut food waste). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet another proposed fix: Nudge people toward a more plant-centered diet. Currently, agriculture uses nearly half of the globe's vegetated land – and at least 30 percent of all cropland is used to grow feed for animals. The resource intensiveness of meat production is a leading cause of deforestation. If current trends continue, the WRI report estimates that we'd need an extra 593 million hectares – an area that is almost twice the size of India — to feed the population in 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, agriculture and the land-use changes associated with producing food — such as plowing and clearing vegetation — generate an estimated 25 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions, according to WRI. 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"content": "\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11713330,bayareabites_128791' label='The Politics of Farming']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abel Ruiz would like nothing more than to farm his own land, but he lacks the financial resources to make his dream a reality. Ruiz belongs to a Santa Ana, California farming cooperative called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/crececommunityinresistance.co.op/\">Community in Resistance for Ecological and Cultural Empowerment\u003c/a> (CRECE), which farms on a half-acre of land that members lease on a month-to-month basis from a local church. This tenuous arrangement has led the group’s members to try to acquire a lot of their own, but they’ve encountered the same roadblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ran into this wall of bureaucracy,” Ruiz, 35, said. “The city won’t sell us land unless we have some form of financial backing, but funders won’t fund us unless we have some form of assets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without investors or assets, co-op members find themselves at square one—working leased land they may not have access to the following month. CRECE’s agreement with the church could end at any time. “That’s not a strong foundation for any farmer,” Ruiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1.jpg\" alt=\"Working on the farm at CRECE.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133633\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Working on the farm at CRECE. \u003ccite>(CRECE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He recently discussed his challenges before the \u003ca href=\"https://agri.assembly.ca.gov/\">California State Assembly’s Committee on Agriculture\u003c/a> in support of a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Robert Rivas, a Democrat who represents the farming-intensive Central Coast, that could be a game-changer for aspiring farm owners like Ruiz. AB 986—the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB986\">Regional Economies and Equity in Agricultural Lands (REEAL) Act\u003c/a>—would create a fund to conserve farmland for socially disadvantaged farmers and give them access to financial resources such as down-payment assistance and one-time investments in infrastructure improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bill say it’s sorely needed as the state’s agricultural industry evolves. Aging white farmers are increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2015/09/14/farmland-investment/72066736/\">turning over their acres to investment firms\u003c/a> who drive up land costs, making ownership off limits to California’s growing share of Latinx and Southeast Asian farmers. Rivas’s bill is one of several aimed at lowering the barriers that farmers of colors face today as a result of agriculture’s ongoing history of racial exclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Farmers of color are the fastest-growing [group of] farmers in the country,” said Neil Thapar, food and farm program director for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theselc.org/team\">Sustainable Economies Law Center\u003c/a>, which is a member of \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmerjustice.com/\">the California Farmer Justice Collaborative\u003c/a>, another sponsor of AB 986. “As our farming population diversifies, those are the people we need to serve. We need to help them continue and maintain strong local agricultural economies, which allows for more local food to be grown to satisfy the culturally relevant food needs of a more diverse population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legacy of Discrimination\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farmers of color in California have long experienced discrimination at both the state and national level. \u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3652&context=californialawreview\">The California Alien Land Law of 1913\u003c/a> robbed immigrants of Asian descent of the chance to buy farmland or enter into long-term lease contracts. Seven years later, the act was updated as the California Alien Land Law of 1920. Asian farmers worked under these oppressive laws until 1952, when the Supreme Court of California reversed them. Decades later, groups of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/latino.farmers.suit/index.html\">Black and Latinx farmers\u003c/a> filed class action lawsuits alleging that the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied them loans and benefits during the 1980s and ‘90s—lawsuits that were settled with historic billion-dollar payouts to the farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given this historical context, Paul Towers, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caff.org/\">Community Alliance with Family Farms\u003c/a>, said that the REEAL Act of 2019 serves to address the legacy of racism in California’s agriculture system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our future targets those farmers left out and pushed through the margins by a system that has favored wealthier white farmers,” Towers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California farmworkers and their families have also been subjected to environmental racism directly tied to the agricultural industry. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency settled a lawsuit in 2011 spearheaded by retired Latinx farmworkers from Oxnard, California, who said their \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/california-unsatisfying-settlement-pesticide-spraying-n406001\">children had been routinely exposed to the pesticides\u003c/a> sprayed on strawberry fields near their schools. The settlement required the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to monitor three farming communities for airborne chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Racism persists today within the agricultural community,” said Beth Smoker, food and agriculture policy consultant for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.panna.org/beth-smoker\">Pesticide Action Network\u003c/a>. “The government structures have been systematically set up so that for this generation of farmers today, those barriers still exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The REEAL Act is an outgrowth of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2017/08/21/a-california-bill-takes-steps-to-end-discrimination-against-farmers/\">Farmer Equity Act of 2017\u003c/a>, which acknowledged the history of racism in agriculture and outlined plans for initiatives to serve socially disadvantaged farmers. So is \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB838\">AB 838\u003c/a>, which would require the University of California to establish the statewide Farmer Equity and Innovation Center to provide training and assistance to new farmers and small and medium-sized farm owners. The program, which must be in place by July 1, 2021, would train these farmers to use best farm management practices, manage water efficiently, and market culturally relevant crops—foods that have been staples in diets of ethnic minority groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the CRECE co-op, Ruiz and his fellow farmers grow food specifically with the Mexican community in mind, he said. Their crops include garbanzo beans, corn, cucumber, tomatoes, and a mishmash of what he describes as “Mexican kitchen herbs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both land access and technical assistance are major gaps for young farmers,” said Sophie Ackoff, vice president of policy and campaigns for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youngfarmers.org/\">National Young Farmers Coalition\u003c/a>. “We really see both bills as being the solution. We need both of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ackoff is excited that AB 838 sets out to provide farmers with culturally relevant training practices given in the languages they speak, as language barriers have previously hindered them from getting important information from small-farm advisors. Culturally relevant training also involves supporting farmers of color who use the organic and traditional farming techniques long adopted by their ethnic groups, including intercropping, agroforestry, and no-till farming. Farmers who practice intercropping grow different types of crops, such as lettuce and brussels sprouts, between rows. Agrofroestry combines farming with tree-growing and preservation, and no-till farming entails growing crops without disrupting the soil through tillage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Blow, who owns along with her husband the three-acre \u003ca href=\"http://www.soulflowerfarm.com/\">Soul Flower Farm\u003c/a> in El Sobrante, said that farmers can benefit from technical assistance, as long as it’s culturally relevant. She and her husband are African American and have often felt that the methods people of color have long used to farm are overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Training is great in my opinion,” Blow said, “but I don’t see it benefitting anybody if it’s just in conventional Western farming techniques that deplete the land.” She cites permaculture, or agroforestry, as an example of an indigenous farming practice that’s catching on with the mainstream farming community. “Permaculture is way to farm using regenerative and sustainable techniques,” she said. “It is an indigenous sustainability practice that was recoined and renamed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blow and her husband have had their farm for nine years. They grow most of the crops for themselves, their two sons, and the students Blow teaches at the herbalist school she runs. She grows more than 100 plants, including Mexican marigold, rosemary, thyme, white sage, blue sage, mugwort, and calendula, for medicinal purposes. She also sells these plants at the local farmers’ market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blow said that she was always drawn to herbalism and farming. She and her husband primarily learned about farming through reading, researching, and connecting with veteran farmers in their community. Because she likes to take their own approach to farming, Blow said that she’s not sure how much she would’ve turned to the state for assistance, but acknowledges the benefits of the pending legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With more help and financial support, we could have accomplished what we’ve done in nine years in two,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impact of Rising Land Values\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/usv1.pdf\">2017 Census of Agriculture\u003c/a>, released in April, farms operated by Hispanics, blacks, Native Americans, and Asians all rose from 2012 to 2017. That this growth is occurring during a period of decline for farm ownership overall signals that farmers of color will likely play key roles in the future of agriculture. But without financial resources, they could be sidelined as the mostly white farming population retires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seventy percent of retiring farmers don’t have succession plan,” Thapar said. “That’s really dangerous in that if there are not enough family members left to run the land, it’s going to be sold off to someone else to develop into something else that doesn’t include growing food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversion of agricultural land into other entities has ecological effects as well. The REEAL Act notes that it reduces California’s ability to store carbon, maintain regional ecosystems, and, of course, produce food. The acquisition of California farmland by investment firms and corporations has also raised land values. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2018/2018LandValuesCashRents_Highlights.pdf\">the real estate value of farmland is $9,000 per acre\u003c/a>. Only four states—all on the East Coast—have higher real estate values. And at $340 per acre, California leads the nation in rent paid for agricultural land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of land is compounding the difficulties farmers of color have to accessing land,” said Young Farmers Coalition’s Ackoff. “They are not inheriting farmland either, so they are left out of this old-boy network.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pesticide Action Network’s Smoker said that historically discriminatory policies have led to farmers of color slowly losing their land over time. She added that receiving fewer federal loans than their white counterparts has also shaped the state of agriculture today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As farmers of color struggle to buy land that’s rapidly rising in value, more farms are being consolidated. In California and across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/farms-in-us-drops-size-grows\">the number of farms is decreasing, but the size of farms is increasing\u003c/a>. Towers said this has ramifications for the food supply and for farmers of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are farming more acres and growing fewer and fewer crops in order to make enough money to be viable,” he said. “The pressure of overall consolidation makes it harder and harder to be a smaller farmer and compete with larger farmers in price and access to market. There are not enough farmers’ markets that make up for the difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should Farm Ownership Be the Goal?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daniel A. Sumner, a professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis, called the REEAL Act well-intentioned legislation. However, he also expressed some concerns about the bill. He questioned the idea that land ownership should be the ultimate goal of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people who own farmland aren’t farmers, and being a farmer doesn’t necessarily have to do with land ownership,” he said. “Farming is a really tough business. A lot of farmers end up bankrupt and feeling like failures, so the last thing I want to encourage is telling people, ‘Come on in, the water is fine.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation notes that California agriculture is in a precarious state, with roughly 50,000 acres of farmland and rangeland lost annually. While the REEAL Act would increase efforts to make more farmers of color landowners, it also includes provisions to help these farmers enter into long-term leasing contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ackoff, however, said that ownership is important for farmers because it gives them much-needed stability, allows them to conserve land, and lowers the odds that farms will end up on the real estate market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The leases many farmers are operating under prevent them from making the investments they need to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2019/04/15/ag-census-more-latinx-farmers-own-their-land-could-they-make-the-food-system-more-sustainable/\">Javier Zamora\u003c/a>, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.jsmorganics.com/\">JSM Organic Farms\u003c/a> in Royal Oaks, California, agrees. Until securing a loan from the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafarmlink.org/\">California FarmLink\u003c/a> that he used to start JSM seven years ago, Zamora spent much of his life working other people’s land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora.jpg\" alt=\"Javier Zamora on his farm\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133634\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Zamora on his farm \u003ccite>(Civil Eats)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you lease, there’s always something that stops you from fully developing your business,” Zamora said. “You can’t build anything on it. When you own your land, there’s just no limit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz believes the legislation has the potential to not only help CRECE but also other would-be farmers in his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not the only ones who’ve gravitated toward farming,” he said. “We’ve met some others who’ve kind of given up. There are people who are interested in farming, and they have a wealth of knowledge. We just need to give them access to land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This article originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2019/05/06/farmers-of-color-may-soon-get-more-support-in-california/\">Civil Eats\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abel Ruiz would like nothing more than to farm his own land, but he lacks the financial resources to make his dream a reality. Ruiz belongs to a Santa Ana, California farming cooperative called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/crececommunityinresistance.co.op/\">Community in Resistance for Ecological and Cultural Empowerment\u003c/a> (CRECE), which farms on a half-acre of land that members lease on a month-to-month basis from a local church. This tenuous arrangement has led the group’s members to try to acquire a lot of their own, but they’ve encountered the same roadblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ran into this wall of bureaucracy,” Ruiz, 35, said. “The city won’t sell us land unless we have some form of financial backing, but funders won’t fund us unless we have some form of assets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without investors or assets, co-op members find themselves at square one—working leased land they may not have access to the following month. CRECE’s agreement with the church could end at any time. “That’s not a strong foundation for any farmer,” Ruiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1.jpg\" alt=\"Working on the farm at CRECE.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133633\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190506-farmers-of-color-socially-disadvantaged-farmers-california-legislation-crece-farm-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Working on the farm at CRECE. \u003ccite>(CRECE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He recently discussed his challenges before the \u003ca href=\"https://agri.assembly.ca.gov/\">California State Assembly’s Committee on Agriculture\u003c/a> in support of a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Robert Rivas, a Democrat who represents the farming-intensive Central Coast, that could be a game-changer for aspiring farm owners like Ruiz. AB 986—the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB986\">Regional Economies and Equity in Agricultural Lands (REEAL) Act\u003c/a>—would create a fund to conserve farmland for socially disadvantaged farmers and give them access to financial resources such as down-payment assistance and one-time investments in infrastructure improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bill say it’s sorely needed as the state’s agricultural industry evolves. Aging white farmers are increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2015/09/14/farmland-investment/72066736/\">turning over their acres to investment firms\u003c/a> who drive up land costs, making ownership off limits to California’s growing share of Latinx and Southeast Asian farmers. Rivas’s bill is one of several aimed at lowering the barriers that farmers of colors face today as a result of agriculture’s ongoing history of racial exclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Farmers of color are the fastest-growing [group of] farmers in the country,” said Neil Thapar, food and farm program director for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theselc.org/team\">Sustainable Economies Law Center\u003c/a>, which is a member of \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmerjustice.com/\">the California Farmer Justice Collaborative\u003c/a>, another sponsor of AB 986. “As our farming population diversifies, those are the people we need to serve. We need to help them continue and maintain strong local agricultural economies, which allows for more local food to be grown to satisfy the culturally relevant food needs of a more diverse population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legacy of Discrimination\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farmers of color in California have long experienced discrimination at both the state and national level. \u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3652&context=californialawreview\">The California Alien Land Law of 1913\u003c/a> robbed immigrants of Asian descent of the chance to buy farmland or enter into long-term lease contracts. Seven years later, the act was updated as the California Alien Land Law of 1920. Asian farmers worked under these oppressive laws until 1952, when the Supreme Court of California reversed them. Decades later, groups of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/latino.farmers.suit/index.html\">Black and Latinx farmers\u003c/a> filed class action lawsuits alleging that the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied them loans and benefits during the 1980s and ‘90s—lawsuits that were settled with historic billion-dollar payouts to the farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given this historical context, Paul Towers, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caff.org/\">Community Alliance with Family Farms\u003c/a>, said that the REEAL Act of 2019 serves to address the legacy of racism in California’s agriculture system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our future targets those farmers left out and pushed through the margins by a system that has favored wealthier white farmers,” Towers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California farmworkers and their families have also been subjected to environmental racism directly tied to the agricultural industry. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency settled a lawsuit in 2011 spearheaded by retired Latinx farmworkers from Oxnard, California, who said their \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/california-unsatisfying-settlement-pesticide-spraying-n406001\">children had been routinely exposed to the pesticides\u003c/a> sprayed on strawberry fields near their schools. The settlement required the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to monitor three farming communities for airborne chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Racism persists today within the agricultural community,” said Beth Smoker, food and agriculture policy consultant for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.panna.org/beth-smoker\">Pesticide Action Network\u003c/a>. “The government structures have been systematically set up so that for this generation of farmers today, those barriers still exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The REEAL Act is an outgrowth of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2017/08/21/a-california-bill-takes-steps-to-end-discrimination-against-farmers/\">Farmer Equity Act of 2017\u003c/a>, which acknowledged the history of racism in agriculture and outlined plans for initiatives to serve socially disadvantaged farmers. So is \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB838\">AB 838\u003c/a>, which would require the University of California to establish the statewide Farmer Equity and Innovation Center to provide training and assistance to new farmers and small and medium-sized farm owners. The program, which must be in place by July 1, 2021, would train these farmers to use best farm management practices, manage water efficiently, and market culturally relevant crops—foods that have been staples in diets of ethnic minority groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the CRECE co-op, Ruiz and his fellow farmers grow food specifically with the Mexican community in mind, he said. Their crops include garbanzo beans, corn, cucumber, tomatoes, and a mishmash of what he describes as “Mexican kitchen herbs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both land access and technical assistance are major gaps for young farmers,” said Sophie Ackoff, vice president of policy and campaigns for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youngfarmers.org/\">National Young Farmers Coalition\u003c/a>. “We really see both bills as being the solution. We need both of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ackoff is excited that AB 838 sets out to provide farmers with culturally relevant training practices given in the languages they speak, as language barriers have previously hindered them from getting important information from small-farm advisors. Culturally relevant training also involves supporting farmers of color who use the organic and traditional farming techniques long adopted by their ethnic groups, including intercropping, agroforestry, and no-till farming. Farmers who practice intercropping grow different types of crops, such as lettuce and brussels sprouts, between rows. Agrofroestry combines farming with tree-growing and preservation, and no-till farming entails growing crops without disrupting the soil through tillage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Blow, who owns along with her husband the three-acre \u003ca href=\"http://www.soulflowerfarm.com/\">Soul Flower Farm\u003c/a> in El Sobrante, said that farmers can benefit from technical assistance, as long as it’s culturally relevant. She and her husband are African American and have often felt that the methods people of color have long used to farm are overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Training is great in my opinion,” Blow said, “but I don’t see it benefitting anybody if it’s just in conventional Western farming techniques that deplete the land.” She cites permaculture, or agroforestry, as an example of an indigenous farming practice that’s catching on with the mainstream farming community. “Permaculture is way to farm using regenerative and sustainable techniques,” she said. “It is an indigenous sustainability practice that was recoined and renamed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blow and her husband have had their farm for nine years. They grow most of the crops for themselves, their two sons, and the students Blow teaches at the herbalist school she runs. She grows more than 100 plants, including Mexican marigold, rosemary, thyme, white sage, blue sage, mugwort, and calendula, for medicinal purposes. She also sells these plants at the local farmers’ market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blow said that she was always drawn to herbalism and farming. She and her husband primarily learned about farming through reading, researching, and connecting with veteran farmers in their community. Because she likes to take their own approach to farming, Blow said that she’s not sure how much she would’ve turned to the state for assistance, but acknowledges the benefits of the pending legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With more help and financial support, we could have accomplished what we’ve done in nine years in two,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impact of Rising Land Values\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/usv1.pdf\">2017 Census of Agriculture\u003c/a>, released in April, farms operated by Hispanics, blacks, Native Americans, and Asians all rose from 2012 to 2017. That this growth is occurring during a period of decline for farm ownership overall signals that farmers of color will likely play key roles in the future of agriculture. But without financial resources, they could be sidelined as the mostly white farming population retires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seventy percent of retiring farmers don’t have succession plan,” Thapar said. “That’s really dangerous in that if there are not enough family members left to run the land, it’s going to be sold off to someone else to develop into something else that doesn’t include growing food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversion of agricultural land into other entities has ecological effects as well. The REEAL Act notes that it reduces California’s ability to store carbon, maintain regional ecosystems, and, of course, produce food. The acquisition of California farmland by investment firms and corporations has also raised land values. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2018/2018LandValuesCashRents_Highlights.pdf\">the real estate value of farmland is $9,000 per acre\u003c/a>. Only four states—all on the East Coast—have higher real estate values. And at $340 per acre, California leads the nation in rent paid for agricultural land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of land is compounding the difficulties farmers of color have to accessing land,” said Young Farmers Coalition’s Ackoff. “They are not inheriting farmland either, so they are left out of this old-boy network.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pesticide Action Network’s Smoker said that historically discriminatory policies have led to farmers of color slowly losing their land over time. She added that receiving fewer federal loans than their white counterparts has also shaped the state of agriculture today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As farmers of color struggle to buy land that’s rapidly rising in value, more farms are being consolidated. In California and across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/farms-in-us-drops-size-grows\">the number of farms is decreasing, but the size of farms is increasing\u003c/a>. Towers said this has ramifications for the food supply and for farmers of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are farming more acres and growing fewer and fewer crops in order to make enough money to be viable,” he said. “The pressure of overall consolidation makes it harder and harder to be a smaller farmer and compete with larger farmers in price and access to market. There are not enough farmers’ markets that make up for the difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should Farm Ownership Be the Goal?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daniel A. Sumner, a professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis, called the REEAL Act well-intentioned legislation. However, he also expressed some concerns about the bill. He questioned the idea that land ownership should be the ultimate goal of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people who own farmland aren’t farmers, and being a farmer doesn’t necessarily have to do with land ownership,” he said. “Farming is a really tough business. A lot of farmers end up bankrupt and feeling like failures, so the last thing I want to encourage is telling people, ‘Come on in, the water is fine.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation notes that California agriculture is in a precarious state, with roughly 50,000 acres of farmland and rangeland lost annually. While the REEAL Act would increase efforts to make more farmers of color landowners, it also includes provisions to help these farmers enter into long-term leasing contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ackoff, however, said that ownership is important for farmers because it gives them much-needed stability, allows them to conserve land, and lowers the odds that farms will end up on the real estate market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The leases many farmers are operating under prevent them from making the investments they need to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2019/04/15/ag-census-more-latinx-farmers-own-their-land-could-they-make-the-food-system-more-sustainable/\">Javier Zamora\u003c/a>, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.jsmorganics.com/\">JSM Organic Farms\u003c/a> in Royal Oaks, California, agrees. Until securing a loan from the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafarmlink.org/\">California FarmLink\u003c/a> that he used to start JSM seven years ago, Zamora spent much of his life working other people’s land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora.jpg\" alt=\"Javier Zamora on his farm\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133634\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2019/05/190412-usda-census-of-agriculture-latinx-farmowners-Javier-Zamora-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Zamora on his farm \u003ccite>(Civil Eats)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you lease, there’s always something that stops you from fully developing your business,” Zamora said. “You can’t build anything on it. When you own your land, there’s just no limit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz believes the legislation has the potential to not only help CRECE but also other would-be farmers in his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not the only ones who’ve gravitated toward farming,” he said. “We’ve met some others who’ve kind of given up. There are people who are interested in farming, and they have a wealth of knowledge. We just need to give them access to land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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