Davis Food Co-op Community Partnerships
Common Circle Education | Slow Foods Yolo | Davis Farm to School ConnectionInstitute for Restorative Health
As an active member of our community, the Davis Food Co-op feels it is important to form lasting partnerships with other community organizations. The Co-op is currently partnered with the organizations below to enrich our community and to provide good food for years to come. To discuss how your organization may partner with the Davis Food Co-op,
the Davis Food Co-op Marketing Coordinator
or telephone (530) 758-2667 ext. 145
One Farm at a Time
A farm, co-op, and community partnership to ensure local food availability.
Local farmers Jeff and Annie Main want to preserve their farm as an organic farm and keep it affordable for farmers in the future. They have created an agricultural easement to be held in perpetuity by the Yolo Land Trust.
How does the easement work?
• The land must always be farmed
• The land must be farmed sustainably
• The farmer must live on the land
• No less than 50% of the farmer’s
income must be derived from farming
Only the actual agricultural value of the farm property will remain, making the farm affordable to the next farmer—and the next.
In the video below, Jeff Main of Good Humus Produce in the Capay Valley of Yolo County describes a strategy of adding stipulations to conservation easements, in order to assure that farmers can and will live on their land.
"Each generation builds on the past generation" — quite a vision for a future of farming!
If you are interested in supporting "One Farm at a Time" with a donation, please send a check to Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation at this address:
Davis Food Co-op
Attn: Twin Pines/OFaaT
716 Sixth Street
Davis, CA 95616
For more information, please visit Good Humus Farm/One Farm At A Time
Common Circle Education provides permaculture design certification courses and educational sustainability-focused bicycle tours to organic farms and eco-villages; their mission is to reconnect people with nature.
Learn how to create sustainable, thriving human systems, from green houses and organic gardens, to local micro-economies and communities, using sustainable design principles that are applicable to every human system, from businesses, communities, and cities to personal relationships.
For more information about their courses, check out www.commoncircle.com
Davis Farm to School Connection
The Food Co-op is proud to partner with the Farm to School Connection, "to create an educational and cultural environment in our schools that connects food choices with personal health, community, farms, and land."
The Co-op enjoys several avenues of support for Davis schools, assisting Farm to School in providing a child-healthy environment that includes fresh, seasonal, food in the school lunchroom, cooperation and recycling in classrooms, and garden-based learning.
Please visit them at www.davisfarmtoschool.org
Village Feast tickets are on sale at the Co-op (as of July - these usually sell out in advance of the event, so buy early!) Feast under the sycamore trees in Davis' Central Park at Noon on August 28, 2010. Click the image below for more detailed information about the event.
The Davis Food Co-op and Slow Food Yolo share the common goal of providing local, sustainable and delicious food to our community. By working together, these two organizations aim to further educate our community about the true value of our food and the farmers who bring it to us.
Look for Slow Food Yolo events—often individually sponsored by the Co-op—to learn more about our local food system and the International Slow Food Movement.
IRH—The Institute for Restorative Health
The Institute for Restorative Health is an integrative healing and wellness center which brings together the best practices of conventional, complementary and alternative medicine to restore patient hope, health and vitality.
They are a group of dedicated providers who believe that health is achieved by creating a balance between body, mind, spirit and environment. Their approach is patient-centered and focuses on treating the whole person, not just the symptom or disease.
The Davis Food Co-op promotes good, whole foods as an essential element of a healthy lifestyle. The Co-op is proud to partner with the IRH to maintain and improve our community's health.