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Craig McNamara - "Food Apartheid" in the U.S., Dealing with California's Top Climate Concerns, and Using Sheep as Lawn Mowers


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Craig is the owner/president of Sierra Orchards and the former president of California State Board of Food and Agriculture, advising multiple generations of state governors on farm related policies for the state that holds the title for 5th largest agriculture producer in the world. Craig is also the founder of the Center for Land Based Learning.

This week on Agriculture Adapts:

- Getting food to the people who need it: food waste, food scarcity, and "food apartheid" in the U.S.

- A creative approach to pest/weed management for organic hazelnuts

- Over-pumping groundwater has lead to irreversible subsidence in California

- Ways to deal with extremely difficult water access issues in California

- Taking steps to avoid a loss of multi-generational farming knowledge

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Resources mentioned in the episode:

- Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in CA

- California's Healthy Soils Initiative

- CalCAN: California Climate and Agriculture Network

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