2013 EcoFarm Conference, January 22-26, Pacific Grove, CA www.eco-farm.org The Successful Organic Farmers plenary is an annual tradition at ...
2013 EcoFarm Conference, January 22-26, Pacific Grove, CA www.eco-farm.org The Successful Organic Farmers plenary is an annual tradition at EcoFarm! This year's crop of farmers will talk about what they do, why they do it, and what they've learned along the way. Paul Underhill Terra Firma Farm, Winters, CA Since the late 1980s, partners Paul Holmes, Paul Underhill, and Hector Melendez-Lopez have produced a wide variety of CCOF certified organic vegetables, fruits, and nuts year-round on 200 acres of the world's best soils on both sides of Putah Creek in Winters, California. Their farm feeds 1300 families within 100 miles through a CSA, and supplies select natural foods retailers and distributors between Sacramento and San Francisco, with the help of their fifty full time employees. Mary Pittman Mary's Free Range Chickens, Clovis, CA Mary Pittman is a principle in the family owned and operated Mary's Free Range Chickens. The Pittman family has been raising chickens in the San Joaquin Valley since 1954. They produce free -range organic and sustainably grown chickens, turkeys, ducks, and Cornish hens in numerous locations around Clovis, CA. Her son David, a third generation chicken farmer, leads the company today in conjunction with his brothers, his father Rick, and Mary. Mary's is famous for healthy, tasty fowl raised in a sustainable manner following the 5-Step principles of the Global Animal Partnership. They were the first company in the US to receive the coveted Step 5 ... Less
