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Co-op Farmland Trust
One Farm at a Time
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The Last Crop tells a personal tale of a family caught in the middle of a delicate interplay between urban and agricultural space in California’s Central Valley. Annie and Jeff Main own a 20-acre organic farm that serves the Sacramento/San Francisco communities. After 30 years of farming, they are finding it harder to remain viable in a rapidly changing highly competitive environment. The film captures the intractable nature of sustaining a small family farm in contemporary California, the sacrifices farming families like the Mains must make to keep their dream alive, and the difficulties involved with passing the land to the next generation of farmer
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One Farm at a Time
One Farm at a Time was initiated through the collaboration of Good Humus Produce, the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, the Davis Food Co-op, Yolo County Land Trust, Tuleyome, and the Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation. One Farm at a Time will raise funds from community members, food Co-op shoppers and other partners. We will use those funds to preserve and protect local farms and ensure that they will be farmed organically by family farmers for generations to come.
Good Humus Produce in the Capay Valley is the first family farm that we are preserving. Jeff and Annie Main have been working for the last decade to establish an agricultural easement that will protect this land as an organic farm into perpetuity. If 40,000 partners give just $10 per year (3 cents a day), we can save Good Humus within a year, and then move on to the next farm.
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One Farm at a Time Article
Two California Food Cooperatives use "Co-op Math" to Preserve Farmland (pdf)
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One Farm at a Time
By David Thompson, President, Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation
For over 150 years, food cooperatives have had a stake in agriculture, farming and
farmers. The relationship between the members of cooperatives and farmers has always
been strong. Our shared program with the Davis Food Co-op and Sacramento Natural
Foods Co-op, of “One Farm at a Time” is just the latest action by cooperatives to directly
link consumers to farmers.
Starting with Good Humus in rural Yolo County, “One Farm at a Time” will raise funds
from cooperatives, their member, shoppers, suppliers, vendors and funders. We will use
those funds to purchase either easements or the land itself to ensure that farmland will be
perpetually saved and farmed organically by family farmers.
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Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation is extremely grateful for the financial support of Barbara V. Your generous donation funded the development of this web site and provided the first $5,000 of matching funds for preserving or creating land for organic farming in Southern California. The Co-op Farmland Trust thanks you for our first donation!
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For almost 30 years Jeff and Annie Main and their family and friends have been farming organically in the rich soil of the Capay Valley in Yolo County. As one of the pioneer organic farming families in the region Jeff and Annie have been long time leaders in creating an alternative vision of how we respect the land. They are exploring how to turn their farm over to a community land trust so that it remains organic forever.
The Good Humus farm is a 20-acre small family farm producing excellent summer stone fruit and very good vegetables for local sales. They have a year-round vegetable, fruit, flower and bread Community Supported Agriculture. They are committed to bringing fresh local/seasonal produce to their custumers.
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Jeff and Annie Main and their family at the Davis Farmer's Market. The Main's are there every Wednesday and Saturday and have been for nearly 30 years.They have been long time suppliers to the Davis Food Co-op and the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op. The Main's started one of the first CSA's (Community Supported Agriculture) in the region.
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CAFF needs many partners to protect and preserve agricultural land. We welcome the Co-op Farmland Trust as a partner in growing the opportunities for land for organic farming. The powerful commitment of $50,000 in matching funds from the Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation gives the Co-op Farmland Trust a great sendoff.
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