Welcome!!!!

The Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) provides educational and business opportunities for farm workers and aspiring farmers to grow and sell crops grown on two organic farms in Monterey County, California.

Our mission is to advance economic viability, social equity and ecological land management among limited-resource and aspiring farmers. We work to create opportunities for family farms while providing education and demonstration on conservation, habitat restoration, and whole farm planning.

ALBA wants to thank all who made possible the success of the past benefit event, “an evening with Jim Hightower” at the Capitola Book Café. The great attendance and all the interest showed by people inspires our mission to advance economic viability, social equity and ecological land management among limited-resource and aspiring farmers. We work to create opportunities for family farms while providing education and demonstration on conservation, habitat restoration, and whole farm planning.

Our special thanks to Jim Hightower, for such as inspirational and relevant words, we appreciated for taking the time and be with us that day; to Barbara Meister, for instigating and promoting the event, to Capitola Book Café for opening your doors to our cause; to Café Cruz for preparing wonderful appetizers made with fresh produce from farmers at ALBA; to Zayante Vineyard, for complementing the food with delicious wines; and again to all the attendees and donors that make an immense difference supporting ALBA’s work.