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Budget Updates (May Revision)

by Lesley Kroupa, JD, MS, RD, ROC’s Policy Specialist On May 12, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom released his May Revision proposal for the FY 23-24 state budget. This amends his […]

S5 – Ep#5 – Will California’s Nutrition Incentive Program (CNIP) Live On?

A Season of Change

Spring is a time of new beginnings. This spring is particularly full of new developments in the world of food and farming. I begin this post with a quote from […]

S5 – Ep#4 – How Cliff Pollard and Cream Co, Inc. provide the missing middle link in creation of West Coast regional regenerative meat supply chains Released

S5 – Ep#3 – Jacob Katz, senior scientist for the nonprofit California Trout, describes how flexible farmers are a solution to major endangered species problems

S5 – Ep#2 – Leonard Diggs and the Regenerator Project on cultivating the next generation of women and BIPOC farmers and ranchers

The Unaddressed Crisis in Agriculture

Neither the media nor policymakers are sufficiently focused on an existential crisis in American agriculture. Farmers and ranchers are an endangered species. As we do for wolves, salmon and whales, […]

S5 – Ep#1 – Food recovery at scale: Rick Nahmias on the birth and growth of Food Forward

ROC Celebrates 20 Years of Growing the Good Food Movement & Making Change, 2002-2022

The final Pulse and Flipping the Table podcast of 2022 look back on what the ROC team has learned about movement building to make change. Twenty years is a long […]

S4 – Ep#12 – A Look Back at the Roots of Change story in its 20th year of existence