Farmers Markets
A quick look at Farmers Markets throughout the San Joaquin Valley.
Family Farm
The Loewen Family and Blossom Bluff Orchards in Parlier. Like many young people, Bryce Loewen, now 38, was eager to head off to the big city for college after high school. Leaving the Central Valley wasn’t difficult for the aspiring animator who was eager to taste life in the bustling Bay Area. “Initially, the idea of moving to the big …
Fresh Flavors
Ferrer Family Farms… When Maria Ferrer slices into one of her blood oranges to demonstrate its beauty and flavor to her farmers market customers, she knows she’s also building a network around herfruit. “My mom really likes the relationships with the different customers she has,” says her youngest son, Oscar. “They’ve built a whole community around the farmers markets.” Blood …
We Are What We Eat
It’s Time To Make Food Decisions With the Climate Crisis in Mind… If we had been told, a decade ago, that so many climate-fueled disasters would hit the food system so soon, would we have believed it? If someone had described the catastrophic flooding of the Missouri river that submerged a million acres of corn and soybeans in 2019 (followed …