Roots of Change

Live Flipping the Table podcast @ SF Climate Week
2025-04-19 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Manny’s, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Join us from 5pm to 6pm on April 19th in San Francisco for a conversation with Loren Ponica, a regenerative rancher and owner of Stemple Creek Ranch, and Duskie Estes, a chef, farmer, rancher, owner of Black Pick Meat Co., and fierce proponent of regenerative agriculture. Hear about how their work heals the climate and the land.
This is a FREE event and is part of SF Climate Week.

RFSI Data Gathering & Listening Session - Ukiah
2025-05-27 11:00 - 13:00
Join us in Ukiah for a meeting to discuss building strong and adaptable food system infrastructure!
Led by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), the Resilient Food System Infrastructure Mapping (RFSI) project focuses on enhancing resilience across the middle of the food supply chain by supporting local and regional producers with an emphasis on small and underserved businesses. The initiative seeks to expand capacity for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses, support the development of value-added products for consumers, fair prices, and fair wages, and to create new and safe job opportunities.
By creating more and better market opportunities and new streams of revenue to small and mid-sized agricultural producers this program will also result in thriving local communities, strengthen food security, and promote fair economic opportunities. Together with Roots of Change (ROC), Institute of the Environment (UC Davis), and infrastructure financing experts, this project will serve to improve supply chain resilience for small and mid-size regional producers, positively impacting historically disadvantaged communities.

RFSI Data Gathering & Listening Session - San Luis Obispo (SLO)
2025-06-02 11:00 - 13:00
Join us in San Luis Obispo for a meeting to discuss building strong and adaptable food system infrastructure!
Led by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), the Resilient Food System Infrastructure Mapping (RFSI) project focuses on enhancing resilience across the middle of the food supply chain by supporting local and regional producers with an emphasis on small and underserved businesses. The initiative seeks to expand capacity for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses, support the development of value-added products for consumers, fair prices, and fair wages, and to create new and safe job opportunities.
By creating more and better market opportunities and new streams of revenue to small and mid-sized agricultural producers this program will also result in thriving local communities, strengthen food security, and promote fair economic opportunities. Together with Roots of Change (ROC), Institute of the Environment (UC Davis), and infrastructure financing experts, this project will serve to improve supply chain resilience for small and mid-size regional producers, positively impacting historically disadvantaged communities.

RFSI Data Gathering & Listening Session - Riverside
2025-06-04 11:00 - 13:00 | 4500 Glenwood Dr A, Riverside, CA 92501, United States, 4500 Glenwood Dr A, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Join us in Riverside for a meeting to discuss building strong and adaptable food system infrastructure!
Led by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), the Resilient Food System Infrastructure Mapping (RFSI) project focuses on enhancing resilience across the middle of the food supply chain by supporting local and regional producers with an emphasis on small and underserved businesses. The initiative seeks to expand capacity for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses, support the development of value-added products for consumers, fair prices, and fair wages, and to create new and safe job opportunities.
By creating more and better market opportunities and new streams of revenue to small and mid-sized agricultural producers this program will also result in thriving local communities, strengthen food security, and promote fair economic opportunities. Together with Roots of Change (ROC), Institute of the Environment (UC Davis), and infrastructure financing experts, this project will serve to improve supply chain resilience for small and mid-size regional producers, positively impacting historically disadvantaged communities.

RFSI Data Gathering & Listening Session - Los Angeles
2025-06-05 11:00 - 13:00 | Larta Institute 1149 S Hill St, Unit 900, Los Angeles, CA 90015, Larta Institute 1149 S Hill St, Unit 900, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Join us in LA for a meeting to discuss building strong and adaptable food system infrastructure!
Led by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), the Resilient Food System Infrastructure Mapping (RFSI) project focuses on enhancing resilience across the middle of the food supply chain by supporting local and regional producers with an emphasis on small and underserved businesses. The initiative seeks to expand capacity for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses, support the development of value-added products for consumers, fair prices, and fair wages, and to create new and safe job opportunities.
By creating more and better market opportunities and new streams of revenue to small and mid-sized agricultural producers this program will also result in thriving local communities, strengthen food security, and promote fair economic opportunities. Together with Roots of Change (ROC), Institute of the Environment (UC Davis), and infrastructure financing experts, this project will serve to improve supply chain resilience for small and mid-size regional producers, positively impacting historically disadvantaged communities.

RFSI Data Gathering & Listening Session - Clovis, Fresno
2025-06-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Valley Community SBDC, 390 West Fir Avenue #300 Clovis, CA 93611 United States, Valley Community SBDC, 390 West Fir Avenue #300, Clovis, Fresno, CA, 93611, United States
Join us in Clovis for a meeting to discuss building strong and adaptable food system infrastructure!
Led by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), the Resilient Food System Infrastructure Mapping (RFSI) project focuses on enhancing resilience across the middle of the food supply chain by supporting local and regional producers with an emphasis on small and underserved businesses. The initiative seeks to expand capacity for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses, support the development of value-added products for consumers, fair prices, and fair wages, and to create new and safe job opportunities.
By creating more and better market opportunities and new streams of revenue to small and mid-sized agricultural producers this program will also result in thriving local communities, strengthen food security, and promote fair economic opportunities. Together with Roots of Change (ROC), Institute of the Environment (UC Davis), and infrastructure financing experts, this project will serve to improve supply chain resilience for small and mid-size regional producers, positively impacting historically disadvantaged communities.

ROC Meat Pavilion @ Terra Madre Americas 2025
2025-09-26 - 2025-09-28 | SAFE Credit Union Convention Center, 1400 J St, Sacramento, CA 95814, Sacramento, CA, 94720, United States
Join us at ROC’s Meat Pavilion at Terra Madre Americas on September 26-28, 2025. The program will include live interviews, cooking and butchery demos, and a celebration of regenerative agriculture. You won’t want to miss it!
This year’s Terra Madre gathering will continue to build on the momentum of connecting diverse food communities across the Americas, focusing on agroecology and community wisdom throughout the continent.
The area dedicated to agroecology will show how deeply it is rooted in the reconstruction of relationships between people, agriculture and environment, food systems and society. The space will showcase the interconnections with agroecological systems in the USA and the richness of projects and initiatives of the Slow Food network in Latin America.
With a wide range of participants and activities, Terra Madre Americas will highlight regional and global food systems, sustainable agriculture, and food justice movements. The event will emphasize collaboration, education, and the celebration of food sovereignty, bringing together farmers, cooks, activists, academics, and policymakers from across the Americas.
