Ag Day Celebrates Food
We’re each six degrees of separation — six or fewer steps away by way of introduction — from any other person in the world, so the theory goes. But what keeps us alive is our food and in that regard each American farmer feeds more than 144 people, a dramatic increase from 25 people in the 1960s. Food is the focus of National Ag Week (March 13-19, 2016) and the annual, free California Ag Day at the State Capitol in Sacramento on March 16, 2016. With enough interest Ag Day festival could grow roots and become popular throughout the state. Urban gardens in busy Los Angeles, rooftop beehives and gardens used by chefs at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Backyard Chickens program promoted by the City of Albany, and the El Dorado County “Foothill to Farms” campaign (greenchefpress.com) all are ways consumers are reducing separation from their food. Ag Day explores our connections with food.
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