As the seed business becomes more and more consolidated, our plants and farmers are suffering. But public plant breeders are cautiously optimistic.

A benefit in California wine country honors our nation’s public plant breeders – by putting their work on a plate.

Two amazing women farming in Ashland, Oregon.

Ashley Tudor is a field-to-table chef, a nutrition book author, and an artist turning taxidermy on its head.

Longtime local aquafarmer and restaurateur, Luc Chamberland has launched what may be California’s first oyster CSA, Community Supported Aquaculture. Same concept as the age-old cardboard veggie box, except instead of parsnips and eggplant, you get an ice-packed cooler full of briny, sweet Pacifics – and the opportunity, as Chamberland puts it, “to get mud between your toes.”

Marnie Jackson traded in her urban life for a rural one in Marin, CA. Now she’s the founder of West Marin’s new Homesteader Group and says she’d rather slit birds’ necks than get her nails done.