Cal Studies Resources: Agriculture Focus

[Agricultural Organizations] [Sustainable Agriculture]
[Agricultural Businesses] [Agricultural Agencies] [Other sites]

People in California Agriculture

David Mas Masumoto: Farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm and Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil

John Jeavons

  • Seeds of Change home page with links to articles, bibliography and more.
  • Jeavons is concerned with Ecology Action & Biointensive Sustainable Mini-Farming
  • Interview with John Jeavons and his Ecology Action Research Farm

Agricultural Organizations

  • The United Farm Workers web site with history, newspaper links, action alerts and more.
  • CCOF (California Certified Organic Farmers) participates with other organizations to develop consistent national and international standards for organic food production. It works to increase the demand for certified organic products and to expand public support for organic agriculture. It actively works to influence governmental policies that protect and encourage organic production.
  • MALT (Marin Agricultural Land Trust) is a nonprofit conservation organization that preserves farmland in Marin County, California, through conservation easements, public education (including hikes and tours of farms, ranches and gardens) and advocacy. Created in 1980 by a coalition of ranchers, environmentalists, and community activists, MALT was the first land trust in the United States to focus on agricultural land preservation. MALT has since become a model for agricultural land preservation efforts across the nation.
  • SLUG (San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners) is a "grassroots organization that empowers communities and individuals with education and employment. " Its "gardening and greening projects, sow the seeds of social justice, community, economic development and ecological sustainability."

Sustainable Agricultural Web sites

Agricultural Businesses

Agriculture Agencies

Other Sites

  • Consumnes River Preserve The Cosumnes is a small river whose headwaters rise at only 8,000' above sea level and whose course from the Sierra Nevada to the San Joaquin Delta is just 80 miles long. But the Cosumnes is far more important than its size would indicate. It is the only undammed river on the west slope of the Sierra, and in its lower reaches it flows through one of the biologically richest regions in California's Central Valley on its way to its confluence with the Mokelumne River and the San Joaquin Delta. The Cosumnes River Preserve was created to safeguard much of that landscape.
  • Sunset Magazine

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