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We’re each six\u00a0degrees of separation — six or fewer steps away by way of introduction\u00a0—\u00a0from 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. \u00a0Food is the focus of National Ag Week\u00a0(March 13-19, 2016) and the annual, free\u00a0California Ag Day<\/a> at the State Capitol in Sacramento on March 16, 2016. With enough interest Ag Day festival could\u00a0grow roots and become popular throughout the state.\u00a0Urban gardens in busy Los Angeles,\u00a0rooftop\u00a0beehives and gardens<\/a>\u00a0used by chefs at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose,\u00a0Backyard Chickens<\/a> program promoted by the City of Albany, and the El Dorado County “Foothill to Farms” campaign\u00a0(greenchefpress.com) all are ways consumers are reducing\u00a0separation from their food. Ag Day explores our\u00a0connections with food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re each six\u00a0degrees of separation — six or fewer steps away by way of introduction\u00a0—\u00a0from 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. \u00a0Food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}