UC Food Observer

New report from Berkeley Food Institute highlights the rise of online grocery shopping due to COVID-19 and the impacts of that on workers, consumer and communities. #GoodRead https://food.berkeley.edu//BFI_FutureGroceriesFactsheet_FI

"The vast California acreage burned in 2020 and the protracted smoky skies should signal state residents and officials to adapt to a new reality, reported Ezra David Romero on Capital Public Radio. The 4 million acres of wildland burned this year isn't unprecedented. Before 1800, 4.5 million or more burned every year in California, according to a UC Berkeley study."... https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm

"In California, most ghost towns were created when a local industry collapsed. Now, climate change is more often to blame when booming communities whither and die, reported Daniel Cusick in E&E News. In an eerie horror story released just before Halloween, Cusick wrote about five towns around the nation that have died or are dying from climate-related disasters. Historic Shasta and Helena, Calif., are featured in one of the vignettes. "Those are two towns that are getting mo...re ghostly," said Yana Valochovich, UC Cooperative Extension forestry advisor in Humboldt and Del Norte counties." https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm

How to bake an election cake. Good recipe! https://www.comestiblejournal.com//recipe-to-bake-election

Interesting read about new UC Organic Institute. https://agnetwest.com/california-organic-institute-begins-/

"Outsized wildfires, rising sea levels and disappearing glaciers are dramatic signs of climate change, but not the only ones. New UC Agriculture and Natural Resources research provides forewarning of a change that will be economically and environmentally costly to California a fifth generation of navel orangeworm, the most destructive pest of almonds, walnuts and pistachios." https://ucanr.edu/News/?routeName=newsstory&postnum=44034

From the The Christian Science Monitor. The comfort of gardens in crisis: an animated memoir https://youtu.be/no9Xm5ieQkI via @YouTube

Organic farming continues to expand in California and now includes more than 360 commodities, according to a new University of California report. Learn more. https://ucanr.edu/News/?routeName=newsstory&postnum=43981

"Do you have land but no livestock and feel concerned about fire fuels on your property? Or are you a livestock owner that can provide a grazing service and/or need land and forage for your animals? Match.Graze can help."

Terrific podcast about James Beard from The Sporkful with Dan Pashman http://www.sporkful.com/who-was-james-beard/

"Farm families are upending the go-it-alone traditions of a shrinking occupation addressing a rise in mental illness by taking care of each other." Essential reading from The Christian Science Monitor

Wonderful read about #faith and #farming from Civil Eats. https://civileats.com//civil-eats-tv-cultivating-sacred-g/

Really interesting piece. https://www.curbed.com//heat-wave-los-angeles-climate-chan

Wonderful piece from Civil Eats. https://civileats.com//how-a-south-carolina-farmer-is-ada/