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Hard work and elegance at the Good Farm Fund’s Winter Feast
By Sarah Reith, The Mendocino Voice, 12/14/16 MENDOCINO Co. 12/14/2016 — Textures ranged from crunchy to creamy at a local farm to fork extravaganza last week. The roasted veggies, from seven local farms, provided a rainbow of flavors and hues. The salad dish, from Floodgate Farms, was a delectable color study, with its warm yellow…
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Good Farm Fund accepting grant applications from Mendocino and Lake counties’ farmers
By Erick O’Donnell, Ukiah Daily Journal 10/12/16 A local grant program whose fund has almost tripled in its second year is on track to draw modestly increased interest from local farmers seeking to expand their operations amidst daunting economic challenges, according to a representative from the fund’s fiscal sponsor. North Coast Opportunities, the sponsor of…
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Farm to Table Feast celebrates community and raises funds for local farms
The Good Farm Fund is excited to host its Third Annual Winter Feast on Thursday, Dec. 8 from 5 to 9 p.m. This year’s farm-to-table dinner will be held at Barra of Mendocino Event Center at 7051 N. State St. in Redwood Valley, and will feature locally raised meat, produce, cheese, grain, beer, wine and…
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Farm to Table Benefit Dinner Helps Support Lake & Mendocino Counties’ Farmers
By Karen Rifkin, for The Ukiah Daily Journal 6/23/16 The warm Cuban music of Marcos Pereda and Kristine Robin fills the air at Yokayo Ranch as people move from table to table tasting dishes prepared by local chefs with food produced by local farmers at the second annual Farm to Table Benefit Dinner for the…
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Local Farms Expand with Good Farm Fund
by Kate Maxwell, Willits News, 1/29/16 “At the farm, you always have a Christmas list of one hundred things you want all the time,” said Hunter Flynn, a Willits farmer who started Tequio Community Farm with his girlfriend Isa Quiroz last year. Flynn and Quiroz met while working for Ecology Action, a Mendocino sustainable farming organization, and…
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“Farmraising” in Northern California
By Chef Julia A. Kendrick Conway for Culination Magazine Farm-to-table is a big buzzword today in the culinary and restaurant world. It seems every other menu touts a local connection, identifying ingredients by naming the farms that produce them. But how much does the trend really benefit farmers and our local food economies? Here…
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Ukiah dinner hopes to ‘feed’ local farmers
By Justine Frederiksen, Ukiah Daily Journal An event this week in Ukiah was designed to not only showcase local food producers, but hopefully garner interest in helping them succeed at a daunting task: making a living as a farmer. “It is nearly impossible to grow food for your neighbors and make enough money to live…
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Farm to Table dinner sets a new bar for local agriculture
By Heidi Dickerson, Special to the Ukiah Daily Journal An upcoming Farm to Table dinner combines acclaimed chef John Ash, local restaurants paired with local farms, Mendocino wines, a historic ranch setting, the announcement of a new way to invest, and a mission. These tidbits outline the first-of-its-kind event dedicated to enhancing local agriculture by…