Meal giveaway for farmworkers in Greenfield grows to 3,000
GREENFIELD ā For the second time, thousands of freshly prepared meals were distributed to farmworker families suffering during the Covid-19 crisis on May 26 at Patriot Park in Greenfield.
The food distribution is the latest effort by the United Farm Workers and World Central Kitchen...
Salinas Valley farmers seek rebound after floods, virus hit lettuce crops
SALINAS VALLEY ā Things were challenging enough for lettuce growers in Monterey Countyās Salinas Valley before Mother Nature dealt a one-two punch in this yearās storms.
Farmers in 2022 had suffered an estimated $150 million in crop losses as impatiens necrotic spot virus ā a...
Farmers suffer losses as Salinas Valley fields flood
Salinas Valley was initially spared the worst of the damage as storms battered California last month. But then the Salinas River overflowed its banks Jan. 10, breaching berms and levees.Ā Over the ensuing hours and days, thousands of acres of some of the countryās most...
Women in agtech: Fatma Kaplan
Editorās Note: The following profile is an excerpt from Amy Wuās book, āFrom Farms to Incubators: Women Innovators Revolutionizing How Our Food is Grown,ā which tells the stories of women entrepreneurs who are transforming agriculture through high technology.
Fatma Kaplanās advice to her younger self...
Food for power
Cesar Mendoza had been a participant in Food, What?!, an organization that brings the youth of Santa Cruz County into the world of farming, food production and cooking.
Taylor Farms donates vegetables to Mee Memorial clinic patients
SALINAS VALLEY ā In honor of both National Diabetes Month and Diabetes Education Week, Taylor Farms donated 500 bags of salad and packages of assorted vegetables to the families visiting Mee Memorial Healthcare System clinics in King City and Greenfield on Nov. 15.
There were...
Celebration of a century
Nearly 250 guests recently took a journey back in time to tour the properties owned by Salinas Land Co. and California Orchard Co. ā located between King City and Greenfield ā in celebration of the two companiesā 100th anniversary and their profound impact on agriculture in the Salinas Valley.
Work continues on King City Highās new FFA facility
KING CITY ā Construction continues at King City High School as the new Future Farmers of America facility begins to look more like a finished building.
The site will include new agriculture classrooms and workshops for KCHS students in the FFA program, and replaces...
Scheid Family Wines VP winemaker retires
MONTEREY COUNTY ā Scheid Family Wines Vice President of Winemaking Dave Nagengast has announced his retirement after 20 years with the Monterey County-based wine company.
Nagengast was the creative and organizational mastermind behind the companyās portfolio of wines, an early adopter of sustainable farming and...
Regional drone program lands $1M grant
SALINAS VALLEY ā University of California Santa Cruzās CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) along with several partners has received a $1 million, 15-month planning grant to support regional drone education and workforce development from the James Irvine Foundation.
The funds will be...

















