Following is a partial list of
opinion essays and news articles about our work.
Opinion Essays / Letters to the Editor written by ALBA
Brett Melone: Buying Local Produce Helps , Monterey County
Herald: December 15,
Praise for Failed Farm Bill , Monterey County Herald, May 24,
2008
Letter to the Editor by Edward Moncrief , Chairman of the
ALBA Board of Directors. Monterey County Weekly, April 10-16,
2008
Focus on the Farm Bill
– Monterey County Herald: February
25, 2007
Opinion: Immigrants and Food, another way to shape the national
conversation ,
MercuryNews.com : March 2, 2011
The Tens: Farmers Face Tough Roe to Hoe in Coming Decade ,
the Sacramento Bee: December 28, 2010
In the Belly of the Good Food Movement Beast: What We Ate For
Lunch At ALBA , Civil Eats, September 9, 2010
Pregnant with Promise: A Report from ALBA Breakout Fundraising
Dinner , Special Edible: Monterey County Weekly, August 28,
2010
Food Stamps Growing at Farmers Markets , SignOn SanDiego
News:
"Immigrants Given Tools to Grow Their Own Native Foods," a
Here and Now (WBUR Boston) radio feature on the New Entry
Sustainable Farming Project in Lowell, Massachusetts, one of our
long-time partners through the National Immigrant Farming
Initiative: August 24, 2009
Female Farmworkers often Harassed – Monterey County Herald:
May 27, 2009
Wal-Mart critics have a point, but Salinas needs the business
– Dennis Donohue, Monterey County Weekly: March 20, 2009
Empty foods for a 'Hay belly
nation ' – Guest opinion by Deborah Rich, Monterey County
Herald, June 9, 2008
Senate must take hard look at limiting farm subsidies –
Monterey County Herald, December 11, 2007
Things are looking good out on the farm – Monterey County
Herald: June 21, 2007
Fat profits from empty calories – Monterey County Herald:
April 25, 2007
Irma Mendoza’s Story: The Difference Between Conventional and
Organic , Bon Appétit Management Company, December 14, 2011
Strawberry Fields Forever: Our Tour to the Salinas Valley ,
California Food & Justice Coalition, December 6, 2011 ALBA: From Farm Worker to Farm Owner , LatinUSA on National
Public Radio, November 11, 2011
Organic Farming On The Rise , KION Central Coast News, October 26, 2011
Tasting the Goods at a New Small Purveyor Incubator , Monterey County Weekly, October 24, 2011
Kitchen Project Cooks Up New Businesses , Watsonville Patch, October 21, 2011
ALBA Expands to Watsonville, Partners with Neighboring Commercial Kitchen Incubator , Monterey County Weekly, October 20, 2011
Site Allows Hollister Residents to Grow Food, Learn Organic Techniques They Can Use , the Pinnacle, October 14, 2011
Start a Vegetable Subscription , Pleasanton Patch, October 13, 2011
Funding Challenges Keep Numbers of New Farmers Low , San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com , July 23, 2011
ALBA Director Resigns, Monterey Herald, July 2, 2011
ALBA Farmer Education Program Graduation, the Salinas
Californian, June 23, 2011
New Organic Farmers Face Big Challenges ,
HealthyCal.org , March 29, 2011
Food Safety Workshop for Small Farmers , the Californian,
March 23, 2011
Farm Workers are climbing the Organic Food Chain ,
Grist.org :
March 18, 2011
Agricultural Field Day Planed for Saturday , Coastal Lines:
March 2, 2011
ALBA Farmers Participating in Ecofarm Conference , Univision
Monterey Channel 67: January 26, 2011
ALBA Inicia Curso de Agricultura Organica , El Sol de
Salinas, January 8, 2011
North Oakland's Phat Beets to Launch CSA Box , East Bay
Express, Oakland, January 3, 2011
Keeping Goats in Oakland , East Bay Express, Oakland,
December 29, 2010
KTSF TV-26, Organic Farming and ALBA, Chinese
language television serving San Francisco Bay Area, December
2010
Part I |
Part II
New Farmer Starting Nov 13th - Rigo Bucio , Oakland Local,
November 5, 2010
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour Encourages Young Adults to Stars
Business , Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 28, 2010
Center Teaches Organic Farming and Business Methods , City on
a Hill Press, October 21, 2010
How Family Farming Revitalizes Local Economies , Ecosalon,
September 16, 2010
Demand Growing for the Sustainability and Fresh Produce from
Community Gardens , Monterey County Herald, September 1, 2010
Farr Urges Collaboration of Monterey Areas Industries ,
Monterey County Herald, August 31, 2010
California ‘Incubator’ Nurtures New Farmers , Sacramento Bee,
August 22, 2010
Small Farms, Big Future . National Radio Project, August, 17
2010
This radio program aired recently on dozens of community/public
radio stations nationwide. The segment called, "Turning Farm
Workers into Farm Owners" features Karina Canto, Efren Avalos,
farmers from ALBA, and also ALBA’s Deputy Director, Gary
Peterson.
Small farmers and local chefs sow our souls , Monterey County
Weekly, August 12, 2010
In Support of Small Farms , Monterey County Herald, August
11, 2010
Salinas Valley Innovation Hub Designation Sought , Monterey
County Herald, July 24, 2010
Agricultural Workers in Salinas Valley Are Food Insecure ,
Annenberg News, May 13, 2010
26 Organic Farmers Graduate from Education Program , Salinas
Californian, July 12, 2010
Farmers Markets Grow with Electronic Food Stamps , Monterey
County Weekly: July 8, 2010
Salinas Ag Group Offers Farm-Food Promo for Food Stamps
Recipients , Salinas Californian: July 2, 2010
ALBA Launching Food Stamps Bonus at Local Farmers Markets ,
Salinas Californian: July 1, 2010
Good Monday Morning: Salinas’ St Paul Episcopal Church Offers
Produce Market to Seniors , the Salinas Californian: June 4,
2010
The Gift of Exchange, An Organic Conversation Radio Show : Tony
Serrano, General Manager of ALBA Organics: April 24, 2010
Hector Mora, Farm Hero of the Month , Farm Aid: March 24,
2010
New Bill Increases Farmers Markets Accessibility to Electronic
Food Stamps , The California Aggie: March, 1 2010
California Farmers Market’s Market Consortium Receives Grant to
Increase Access to Healthy Food , Roots of Change: February, 12
2010
Lawmakers Help Food Stamps Get to Farmers Markets ,
Associated Press: February 12, 2010
ALBA Receives Grants to Benefit Work , Salinas Californian:
January 11, 2010
Salinas’ ALBA Gets Grant Boosts , Salinas Californian:
January 8, 2010
ALBA Ofrece Curso de Capacitación Agrícola , El Sol ,
Salinas: November 21, 2009
Money Set to Train Farmers , Capital Press : November
21, 2009
Farm Financing, Credit and Crop Insurance in Salinas, Hollister ,
Salinas Californian :
Peggy Bates [and Rachel Osias of ALBA] among Monterey County
philanthropists… Monterey County Herald: November 16, 2009
CSU Monterey Bay senior wins first Philanthropic Young Adult
award Salinas Californian: November 13, 2009
USDA Announces Funding for Beginning Farmer Program ,
Agriculture Online: November 4, 2009
Organic Harvest Day Saturday at ALBA in Salinas , Salinas
Californian: October 6,
Strawberry
Complex Monterey County Weekly, October 1-7, 2009
Advocated slams food safety plan , Salinas Californian:
September 24, 2009
Farm Training Association’s Business Education Benefits from
Wells Fargo Grant, Salinas Californian: September 1, 2009
Local Growers Boo the New U.S. House-approved Food Safety Bill ,
Monterey County Weekly : August 20, 2009
Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment
visits ALBA’s You Pick Day; July 25, 2009
Methyl
Madness , Metro Santa Cruz; July 15, 2009
Food, Inc. To Have Special Screening - Salinas Californian
June 16, 2009
Go Green By Buying Local Foods & Supporting Local Farms –
KION Television News, Salinas/Monterey: April 24, 2009ALBA Grows New
Farmers – CUESA’s Weekly eLetter: April 10, 2009Kresge Co-op –
City on a Hill: March 11, 2009- University of California Santa
Cruz’s
Growing Pains: Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association
staff clash with the farmers they train – Monterey County
Weekly: December 4, 2008
Ag group offering computer basics – Salinas Californian:
November 4, 2008
A new crop: farmers – Santa Cruz Sentinel (plus San Jose
Mercury-News and Monterey County Herald): October 17, 2008 /
Note: this story appeared on the front page with multiple color
photos of Jose Nuñez!
Consumers can pick farm-fresh produce – Monterey County
Herald: October 10, 2008
Pajaro Valley Entrepreneurial Fair and Expo , Watsonville
Pajaronian, July 25th, 2008Carrots, Sticks and
Crumbs , Grist, July 17th, 2008
Fair Planned for Small Business , Monterey County Herald,
July 16, 2008
Eating close to home doesn’t have to be painful , Monterey
County Weekly, January 31, 2008.
ALBA shares news about beginning farmer victories in the Farm
Bill , broadcasted on local television news (en Español) –
KSMS Univision-67, Monterey-Salinas, June 2, 2008
ALBA’s comments about the Farm Bill broadcasted on local
television news (en Español) – KSMS Univision-67,
Monterey-Salinas, April 30, 2008
KUSP’s Talk of the Bay , April 22, 2008
Land War: ALBA farmers clash with staff over leases, treatment
and produce prices. Monterey County Weekly, April 3-9, 2008.
Citizens group wants to ban genetically engineered crops –
Monterey County Weekly, March 6, 2008
Genetically altered crop ban sought – Salinas Californian,
February 29, 2008
Farm life soothes veteran – Salinas Californian, February
11, 2008
Workshop focus
on green certification in food service – Monterey County
Herald, December 4, 2007
“In the push to eliminate E. coli risk, produce handlers are
forcing local farmers to unravel conservation practices,”
–
Monterey County Weekly, November 21, 2007
Farmer Growing a Business – Salinas Californian, July 30,
2007
Program turns farmworkers into farmers, fosters small business
– Associated Press: June 20, 2007
Program gives workers seeds for success – Marketplace
(American Public Media), June 13, 2007
Back in the fields, but with a degree: Juan Perez becomes
frontman for healthful-eating promotions – Monterey County
Herald: June 12, 2007
Soledad market opens – Salinas Californian: June 8, 2007
Small farmer training connects to community – KAZU 90.3 FM:
May 4, 2007
Group
harvests link to the S.F. Bay Area – Salinas Californian:
April 23, 2007
Graduation Set for Farm Group – Monterey County Herald:
April 13, 2007
Grant to aid bilingual business education – The Salinas
Californian: April 5, 2007
Three non-profits get $150,000 grant – Monterey County
Herald: April 5, 2007
Soledad Farmer's Market to debut in June – South County
Newspapers: February 28, 2007
Farmers markets move south – The Salinas Californian:
February 27, 2007
Organic
Evolution – Monterey County Weekly: December 28, 2006
Gary
Patton’s Land Use Report – KUSP, Central Coast Public Radio:
December 4, 2006
The Face of Food on the Central Coast – Health Quarterly /
Special supplement published by the Steps to a Healthier Salinas
Program in the Salinas Californian: November 7, 2006
Slow & Fresh: A Celebration of the Earth’s Bounty – Haven
Magazine (Monterey County Herald): October 29, 2006
15,000 UCSC students reap benefits from ALBA Organics –
Watsonville Register-Pajaronian: February 18, 2006
Farr praises organic center – The Salinas Californian:
February 23, 2005
María Luz Reyes profiled for
her innovative pest management and collaborative research,
broadcasted on local television news (en Español) – KSMS
Univision-67, Monterey-Salinas, August 27, 2008