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The Sacramento Food and Film Festival is back for its fifth year. Organizer Amber Stott joins filmmaker Matt Weschler and farmer Anthony Davis to talk about what to expect.

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Food and Sustainability

Sacramento Co. Gets First Application For A Home Farm Stand Permit

March 29, 2017 | Randol White

The movement to connect more people in low-income areas of Sacramento with locally-grown produce took a step forward Wednesday.

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Environment

Wet Weather Delays Planting For Central Valley Farmers

March 24, 2017 | Rich Ibarra

Growers have a lot to worry about, from broken levees to standing water.

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Environment

Dispatch From The Field: Julia Mitric On A Quest To Understand Bee Die-Off

March 23, 2017 | Julia Mitric

Food and sustainability reporter Julia Mitric is on a quest to understand how and why California bees are dying off in droves.

Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Who’s Responsible For The Bee Die Off In Fresno County?

March 23, 2017

Bees are dying in the hundreds of thousands in Fresno County as farmworkers and state officials scramble to determine the cause. Capital Public Radio’s Julia Mitric is down in Fresno investigating possible causes.

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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Slow-Food Chef Alice Waters Focuses On Sustainable Agriculture

March 10, 2017

Capital Public Radio's Beth Ruyak interviews famed Berkeley chef Alice Waters about slow food, sustainable farming, and Sacramento's newest identity - Farm-to-Fork Capital of America - on Insight.

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Food and Sustainability

Proposal Would Bar Calif. Schools From Withholding Lunch When Fees Are Unpaid

March 3, 2017 | Daniel Potter

Students in California shouldn’t have to go hungry if their parents haven’t paid their school lunch bills. That’s the idea behind a proposal in the state legislature by Van Nuys Democratic Sen. Bob Hertzberg.

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