Green Acres, Again!
October 14, 2021
India Joze: Fusion Foodie!
October 30, 2021Tending California’s Golden Agriculture!
Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1293
This Poll is closed!!
Listen Now…
GUEST: Karen Ross California Secretary of Agriculture
Begin with a Mediterranean climate; add a long range of mountains to collect and store winter’s precipitation; carve out a deep valley at the foot of those mountains, then add to that valley rich, alluvial soils.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Tending California’s $50 Billion Agriculture
It is a fact, the nation’s Golden State was designed and built for agriculture.
Stand back and have a look: California’s 77,000 farms and ranches produce nearly $50 billion dollars of revenue a year, and that is nearly double the revenue produced by #2 Iowa. The state’s farmers and ranchers grow more than 400 commodities, including a huge percentage of the nation’s fruits, vegetables and nuts.
Though agriculture has done its part in maintaining California’s golden glow, it must now compete with many other interests for the state’s resources. And this competition leads many to ask:
Leave Comment Below: How can California farmers and ranchers keep growing the gold?
Take the 2X2 Pledge
“Together, we can eat our way to economic security and personal freedom, and it won’t cost a dime and it will be so easy it will make you blush!”
Michael Olson’s Three Laws of the Food Chain
#1 Agriculture is the foundation upon which we build all our sand castles.
#2 The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in that food.
#3 Cheap food isn’t! READ MORE
