Nightcaps: On California farmers, old and young

Posted on 12/27/2011 at 5:09 pm by Paolo Lucchesi in Farms, Headlines, Photo Galleries

Young farmers start a career at Dinner Bell Farms

Cooper Funk, Molly Nakahara, Paul Glowaski met in 2006 at a UC Santa Cruz farm apprenticeship program and started Dinner Bell Farm in Grass Valley two seasons ago. (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

Molly Nakahara waters in the greenhouse. (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

Young farmers Cooper Funk, left, and Paul Glowaski put a post hole digger on their tractor. (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

Molly Nakahara rolls up a row cover that was protecting kale, bok choy, and flowers from cold weather and deer. (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

Covering their Spanish Roja garlic with straw. (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

Glowaski, Nakahara, and Funk take down the hoops and row covers. (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

(Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

(Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

Bok choy (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

Shishito peppers (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

Nakahara looks over the heritage breed, pasture raised chickens. (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

(Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

Chickens. (Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

(Anne Chadwick Williams / Special To The Chronicle)

From the local scene:

• Did you catch the two articles about the future of local farms in Sunday?s paper? Up first, Stacy Finz explains how the average age of a farmer in California is creeping toward 60, so the Department of Food and Agriculture is trying to attract newcomers to work the land? [San Francisco Chronicle]
• ? And Amanda Gold profiled a few young farmers at Dinner Bell Farm (photo tour above), and how they fell into their new careers. [San Francisco Chronicle]
• Brett Emerson of Contigo: waffle fan. [SF Examiner]
• Local Mission Eatery has a new project or two. [Grub St]
• Wherein Joshua Skenes tells a joke. [Eater SF]

From the national scene:

• Ever wonder what Mark Zuckerberg eats while in Vietnam? [Gizmodo]
• ChuckEats ate very well in 2011. These are his very pretty highlights. [ChuckEats]
• Does America not want as much beef nowadays? [MSNBC]

Nightcaps: On California farmers, old and young

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From the local scene: Did you catch the two articles about the future of local farms in Sunday?s paper? Up first, Stacy Finz explains how the average age of a farmer in California is creeping toward 60, so the Department of Food and Agriculture is trying to attract newcomers to work the land? [San Francisco [...]

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