Situated in Colusa County, California, Spring Valley Ranch has seen a lot of changes in recent years. The land’s inheritor, Robert Slobe, took over his great-grandfather’s 7,500 acres in 1985 and has been on a journey to improve the land ever since. He has faced many challenges, including the ever-worsening need for water and threat of invasive weeds. […]
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WEGIS & YOUNG
For over 100 years, the Wegis and Young families have been pillars of the Kern County agriculture industry and community. The business was born in the 1890s when four brothers from Germany began farming 20 acres of land. Today, Wegis & Young is operated by the third and fourth generation of the families and encompasses 10,000 acres […]
OCEAN MIST FARMS
Ocean Mist Farms’ history dates to 1924, when Daniel Pieri, James Bellone, and cousins Amerigo and Angelo Del Chiaros started the California Artichoke & Vegetable Growers Corporation in Castroville, Calif. Not long after, local vegetable farmer Alfred Tottino joined the partnership. Over the last 50 years, the company expanded from growing artichokes and Brussels sprouts […]
CITRONA FARMS
Academics by training, husband and wife Daniel and Sarah Hrdy had little farming experience before moving to California from Massachusetts in 1984 to become professors at the University of California, Davis. They specifically chose to work at UC Davis with the intent of entering agriculture. Commercial farming had captivated Daniel, who had previously served as […]
GIACOMAZZI DAIRY
Dino Giacomazzi is a fourth-generation dairy farmer whose 900-acre farm has been in operation southeast of Hanford since 1893. He and his family live on the dairy property and oversee all aspects of its operations. Mr. Giacomazzi has been on the forefront of land conservation; his use of conservation tillage that has reduced air pollution […]
MONTNA FARMS
Montna Farms specializes in high quality commercial rice production with 3,000 acres of land devoted to the cultivation of short grain Japanese varieties. The origins of Montna Farms date back to 1884 when Peri Montna, grandfather of Al Montna, moved to California from France. Peri was followed by his son, Alfred “Dutch” Montna, who in […]
MAPES RANCH
In 1923 Ed Mape began Mapes Ranch outside of Modesto, California in Stanislaus County. The ranch is a 3,500 acre diversified farming and cattle operation producing almonds, wheat, tomatoes, alfalfa, corn, grapes, oats, barley, beans, forage mix, and melons adjacent to 3,000 acres of rangeland. It was Bill and Mary Lyons that started to implement […]
LUNDBERG FAMILY FARMS
Lundberg Family Farms began in 1937 when Albert and Frances Lundberg relocated to California’s fertile Sacramento Valley. After witnessing the Dustbowl in Nebraska that was the result of poor soil management, Albert taught his sons Eldon, Wendell, Harlan and Homer a way of farming that enhances and protects the environment. The family went on to […]
T.O. CATTLE COMPANY & MORRIS GRASSFED BEEF
Joe and Julie Morris have owned and operated T.O. Cattle Company and Morris Grassfed Beef since 1991 when Joe took over his grandfather’s 200-acre ranch near San Juan Bautista, California. The Morris’ have since grown to lease an additional 5,000 private and public acres while managing 1,000 stocker cattle and 270 cows to supply their […]
WORK RANCH
George and Elaine Work and their son Ben and his wife Kelly, own and operate Work Ranch in San Miguel, in southern Monterey County. Work Ranch is a 12,000-acre ranch, divided into fifty pastures so both the cattle and grass can be managed better. George described his family as ‘solar energy converters’- “we convert solar […]
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