Keeping up two lives is tricky. You have to make time for two worlds, responsibilities to different people, and remember all you've said and done.
This blog is where I get into the knitty gritty, into the details of farming and sometimes of my thoughts. But my business site is where I have to maintain a constant presence. It turns out that people DO check my website!
This is where I keep my secrets. Internet secrets, like how I looked up all the LA sourdough bakeries and steampunk outlets, but not my social security number.
Here's a secret: I'm going to change California agriculture. I'm going to create farmer cooperatives that help low-income, under-represented, marginalized farmers start and grow their businesses. I'm going to create an Asian Farmers Alliance that will help Asian and Asian American farmers secure their farms, get technical and financial assistance that they've been historically denied, and We will ally with other minority farmers towards the aim of diversifying California farm ownership and management, of eradicating exploitative labor practices, and making socially just and environmentally beneficial farming viable.
I'm starting a grain co-op and will work with EcoFarm as their 2016 Farmer Fellow to create grain processing centers run by farmers. We'll get everyone on board at the EcoFarm 2016 Pre-Conference. I've also been invited to join 40 of the nation's most influential grain farmers, millers, bakers at a conference in March 2016. There'll be more heritage grains coming to you soon.
In the meantime, find me with Mark Stambler of Pagnol Boulanger as we give people a taste of grains grown well and baked masterfully.
The past month I've given several talks about my grains and each time it's overwhelmingly wonderful. I love sharing beautiful and delicious things with people, and I am so glad people are inspired by my farming practices. Well, except for some Berkeley plant biologists, according to the Fresh from the Farm written reviews. One said that my farm doesn't fit into a panel about farming because my farming is more of a social statement than agriculture.
The reason I give these talks is to drive home the point that farming is a social, economic, and ecological issue. Ignoring any one makes farming dysfunctional. And that's what we've been doing for the past century, which has given rise to many local and global problems of starvation, habitat loss, and labor exploitation. It's time to change and we need to look at the whole picture if we're going to make any progress.
This blog is where I get into the knitty gritty, into the details of farming and sometimes of my thoughts. But my business site is where I have to maintain a constant presence. It turns out that people DO check my website!
This is where I keep my secrets. Internet secrets, like how I looked up all the LA sourdough bakeries and steampunk outlets, but not my social security number.
Here's a secret: I'm going to change California agriculture. I'm going to create farmer cooperatives that help low-income, under-represented, marginalized farmers start and grow their businesses. I'm going to create an Asian Farmers Alliance that will help Asian and Asian American farmers secure their farms, get technical and financial assistance that they've been historically denied, and We will ally with other minority farmers towards the aim of diversifying California farm ownership and management, of eradicating exploitative labor practices, and making socially just and environmentally beneficial farming viable.
I'm starting a grain co-op and will work with EcoFarm as their 2016 Farmer Fellow to create grain processing centers run by farmers. We'll get everyone on board at the EcoFarm 2016 Pre-Conference. I've also been invited to join 40 of the nation's most influential grain farmers, millers, bakers at a conference in March 2016. There'll be more heritage grains coming to you soon.
In the meantime, find me with Mark Stambler of Pagnol Boulanger as we give people a taste of grains grown well and baked masterfully.
The past month I've given several talks about my grains and each time it's overwhelmingly wonderful. I love sharing beautiful and delicious things with people, and I am so glad people are inspired by my farming practices. Well, except for some Berkeley plant biologists, according to the Fresh from the Farm written reviews. One said that my farm doesn't fit into a panel about farming because my farming is more of a social statement than agriculture.
The reason I give these talks is to drive home the point that farming is a social, economic, and ecological issue. Ignoring any one makes farming dysfunctional. And that's what we've been doing for the past century, which has given rise to many local and global problems of starvation, habitat loss, and labor exploitation. It's time to change and we need to look at the whole picture if we're going to make any progress.
