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Alameda County StopWaste (StopWaste.Org) works with businesses to encourage use of reusable transport packaging: reusable totes, reusable pallets and reusable pallet wrap. They are giving away grants of up to $5,000 to buy reusables. You can find a grant application at http://www.usereusables.org/grants. Thanks for sharing this, New Natives!

Grants for Reusable Transport Packaging | UseReusables Use Reusables is offering funding up to $5,000 per approved business or institution, for the purchase of reusable transport packaging. A total of $25,000 in funding is available. Applications are due no later than October 31, 2016. Submissions will be evaluated on a first come first serve basis unti...

Would you eat "ugly" food? We'll send a free Buy Fresh Buy Local bumper sticker to the first ten people to respond in a comment.

'Ugly' food to get second chance in Sweden Ugly carrots will be sold cheaply at the participating Coop supermarkets. Photo: Epukas via Wikimedia Commons

CAFF has launched a new website with lots of great info. to explore, including this page...where you can find out about the many programs we work on throughout the state: http://www.caff.org/programs/

Programs | Community Alliance with Family Farmers CAFF is California’s longest-standing advocate for sustainable agriculture. We connect farmers, businesses, and consumers working to build a better food system. Using our long history and vast amount of experience, we serve California family farmers and their communities through our five main progr…

What does it mean to "Grow better, not bigger"? Well, it means a lot! A better quality of life, better produce, and better soil.

Read more about Farmer Jean-Martin's ideas here:

http://civileats.com/2015/04/21/earn-a-good-living-without-a-tractor-a-market-gardener-tells-you-how/ Thanks Civil Eats!

Earn a Good Living Without a Tractor: A Market Gardener Tells You How According to Jean-Martin Fortier, it isn’t a farmer’s job to feed the world. And he finds it absurd that many U.S.-based food and agriculture companies tell farmers they should do so. “Feeding the world? People in Africa don’t need the U.S. to feed them.” What we need, the Canadian farmer argues, is…