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Ecological Farming field days prioritize knowledge sharing from these experts.
Who are farmers?
These team members help farmers sell local produce to schools across California.
Who are Claire and Michelle?
These are the 4 core areas the Farmer Services Program is working on.
What are food safety, organic transition, small farm tech hub, and CA Relief Fund?
This program is one of CAFF's 2026 budget priorities that lost federal funding and supports resilient food systems by facilitating partnerships between small farms and local food banks.
What is the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program (LFPA)?
In 2017, CAFF merged with this organization.
What is The Farmers Guild?
This type of Ecological Farming field work has resulted in a record number of broken tools.
What is soil sampling?
Last October, these 2 rockstar team members hosted a farm tour/dinner with JAS Family Farm.
Who are Evelyn and Yareli?
The California Farmer Emergency Fund that CAFF runs was renamed in 2025 to this.
What is the CA Farmer Relief Fund?
This region has been historically underserved and is a new area of focus that the policy team has recently added through the addition of two new roles.
What is the San Joaquin Valley?
In 1978, CAFF was initially founded as the California ______ Action Project.
What is Agrarian (the California Agrarian Action Project)?
EF's new BIOS in Stone Fruit project will address pest management utilizing these integrated pest management practices (name two).
What is mating disruption, natural enemy releases, cover cropping, reduced risks sprays and/or monitoring?
These Farm to Market staff members consistently set up Farmers markets as part of their events.
Who are Rasheed and Jeanette?
The Farmer Services team has this many people, including long term contractors and staff.
What is 11 people?
This is one of CAFF’s Policy Priorities for 2026.
Multiple answers:
1. What is Building a Just Agricultural Economy?
2. What is Equitable Opportunities for Land?
3. What is What is Fair and Reliable Water Availability?
4. What is Market Access and Financial Stability?
5. What is Climate Resiliency and Disaster Relief?
In this year, CAFF helped found the California Small Farm Conference.
What is 1984?
These are the 3 most common Healthy Soils program practices we provide technical assistance for.
What are compost, cover cropping, and hedgerows?
This person has been at CAFF the longest and co-founded the National CSA Network.
Who is Michelle Wyler?
The Farmer Services Program started in this year.
What is 2020?
The Policy Team runs every policy position by this entity before publicly supporting or opposing a bill.
What is the Policy Committee?
In 1979, CAFF sued the UC for using taxpayer dollars to create technologies that disadvantage small farms, specifially this machine.
What is The Mechanical Tomato Harvester?
The EPM team discovered a species of this type of bug for the first time in the U.S.
What is a predatory mite?
This team member was dressed as a corn cob during our farm to market lunch and learn, hosts an award winning podcast, and has a ag tech background.
Who is Hector?
This exact disaster event spurred the creation of the original farmer emergency fund.
What is the 2017 Tubbs wildfire?
These state programs and requested funding amounts are the 2026 budget priorities for the policy team this year (name the programs and total amounts).
What is $45 million for LFPA; $15 million for CUSP; $15 million for land access program; $14.8 (or just 14 is fine) for equipment sharing and farmer cooperatives?
The orange of CAFF's current logo, released in 2020, represents this California icon.
What is The California poppy?