Following is a partial list of opinion essays and news articles about our work.

Opinion Essays / Letters to the Editor written by ALBA

Brett Melone: Buying Local Produce Helps, Monterey County Herald: December 15,
2009

Praise for Failed Farm Bill, Monterey County Herald, May 24, 2008

Letter to the Editor by Edward Moncrief, Chairman of the ALBA Board of Directors. Monterey County Weekly, April 10-16, 2008

Focus on the Farm Bill – Monterey County Herald: February 25, 2007

Opinions and Editorials of Interest

Food Stamps Growing at Farmers Markets, SignOn SanDiego News:
February 22, 2010

“Immigrants Given Tools to Grow Their Own Native Foods,” a Here and Now (WBUR Boston) radio feature on the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project in Lowell, Massachusetts, one of our long-time partners through the National Immigrant Farming Initiative: August 24, 2009

Female Farmworkers often Harassed – Monterey County Herald: May 27, 2009

Wal-Mart critics have a point, but Salinas needs the business – Dennis Donohue, Monterey County Weekly: March 20, 2009

Empty foods for a 'Hay belly nation' – Guest opinion by Deborah Rich, Monterey County Herald, June 9, 2008

Senate must take hard look at limiting farm subsidies – Monterey County Herald, December 11, 2007

Things are looking good out on the farm – Monterey County Herald: June 21, 2007

Fat profits from empty calories – Monterey County Herald: April 25, 2007

News Articles

26 Organic Farmers Graduate from Education Program, Salinas Californian, July 12, 2010

Farmers Markets Grow with Electronic Food Stamps, Monterey County Weekly: July 8, 2010

Salinas Ag Group Offers Farm-Food Promo for Food Stamps Recipients, Salinas Californian: July 2, 2010

ALBA Launching Food Stamps Bonus at Local Farmers Markets, Salinas Californian: July 1, 2010

Good Monday Morning: Salinas’ St Paul Episcopal Church Offers Produce Market to Seniors, the Salinas Californian: June 4, 2010

The Gift of Exchange, An Organic Conversation Radio Show: Tony Serrano, General Manager of ALBA Organics: April 24, 2010

Hector Mora, Farm Hero of the Month, Farm Aid: March 24, 2010

New Bill Increases Farmers Markets Accessibility to Electronic Food Stamps, The California Aggie: March, 1 2010

California Farmers Market’s Market Consortium Receives Grant to Increase Access to Healthy Food, Roots of Change: February, 12 2010

Lawmakers Help Food Stamps Get to Farmers Markets, Associated Press: February 12, 2010

ALBA Receives Grants to Benefit Work, Salinas Californian: January 11, 2010

Salinas’ ALBA Gets Grant Boosts, Salinas Californian: January 8, 2010

ALBA Ofrece Curso de Capacitación Agrícola, El Sol, Salinas: November 21, 2009

Money Set to Train Farmers, Capital Press: November 21, 2009

Farm Financing, Credit and Crop Insurance in Salinas, Hollister, Salinas Californian:
November 21, 2009

Peggy Bates [and Rachel Osias of ALBA] among Monterey County philanthropists… Monterey County Herald: November 16, 2009

CSU Monterey Bay senior wins first Philanthropic Young Adult award Salinas Californian: November 13, 2009

USDA Announces Funding for Beginning Farmer Program, Agriculture Online: November 4, 2009

Organic Harvest Day Saturday at ALBA in Salinas, Salinas Californian: October 6,
2009

Strawberry Complex Monterey County Weekly, October 1-7, 2009

Advocated slams food safety plan, Salinas Californian: September 24, 2009

Farm Training Association’s Business Education Benefits from Wells Fargo Grant, Salinas Californian: September 1, 2009

Local Growers Boo the New U.S. House-approved Food Safety Bill, Monterey County Weekly: August 20, 2009

Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment visits ALBA’s You Pick Day; July 25, 2009

Methyl Madness, Metro Santa Cruz; July 15, 2009

Food, Inc. To Have Special Screening - Salinas Californian June 16, 2009

Go Green By Buying Local Foods & Supporting Local Farms – KION Television News, Salinas/Monterey: April 24, 2009

ALBA Grows New Farmers – CUESA’s Weekly eLetter: April 10, 2009

Kresge Co-op – City on a Hill: March 11, 2009- University of California Santa Cruz’s
student newspaper

ALBA profiled on national television - October 2008

Growing Pains: Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association staff clash with the farmers they train – Monterey County Weekly: December 4, 2008

Ag group offering computer basics – Salinas Californian: November 4, 2008

A new crop: farmers – Santa Cruz Sentinel (plus San Jose Mercury-News and Monterey County Herald): October 17, 2008 / Note: this story appeared on the front page with multiple color photos of Jose Nuñez!

Consumers can pick farm-fresh produce – Monterey County Herald: October 10, 2008

María Luz Reyes profiled for her innovative pest management and collaborative research, broadcasted on local television news (en Español) – KSMS Univision-67, Monterey-Salinas, August 27, 2008

 

Pest management field tour at ALBA, broadcasted on local television news – KION (CBS affiliate), Monterey-Salinas, August 27, 2008

Pajaro Valley Entrepreneurial Fair and Expo, Watsonville Pajaronian, July 25th, 2008

Carrots, Sticks and Crumbs, Grist, July 17th, 2008

Fair Planned for Small Business, Monterey County Herald, July 16, 2008

Eating close to home doesn’t have to be painful, Monterey County Weekly, January 31, 2008.

ALBA shares news about beginning farmer victories in the Farm Bill, broadcasted on local television news (en Español) – KSMS Univision-67, Monterey-Salinas, June 2, 2008

ALBA’s comments about the Farm Bill broadcasted on local television news (en Español) – KSMS Univision-67, Monterey-Salinas, April 30, 2008

Jim Hightower and Gary Peterson, deputy director of ALBA, discuss Hightower’s new book, the Farm Bill and other farm issues on KUSP’s Talk of the Bay, April 22, 2008

Land War: ALBA farmers clash with staff over leases, treatment and produce prices. Monterey County Weekly, April 3-9, 2008.

Citizens group wants to ban genetically engineered crops – Monterey County Weekly, March 6, 2008

Genetically altered crop ban sought – Salinas Californian, February 29, 2008

Farm life soothes veteran – Salinas Californian, February 11, 2008

Workshop focus on green certification in food service – Monterey County Herald, December 4, 2007

“In the push to eliminate E. coli risk, produce handlers are forcing local farmers to unravel conservation practices,” – Monterey County Weekly, November 21, 2007

Farmer Growing a Business – Salinas Californian, July 30, 2007

Program turns farmworkers into farmers, fosters small business – Associated Press: June 20, 2007

Program gives workers seeds for success – Marketplace (American Public Media), June 13, 2007

Back in the fields, but with a degree: Juan Perez becomes frontman for healthful-eating promotions – Monterey County Herald: June 12, 2007

Soledad market opens – Salinas Californian: June 8, 2007

Small farmer training connects to community – KAZU 90.3 FM: May 4, 2007

Group harvests link to the S.F. Bay Area – Salinas Californian: April 23, 2007

Graduation Set for Farm Group – Monterey County Herald: April 13, 2007

Grant to aid bilingual business education – The Salinas Californian: April 5, 2007

Three non-profits get $150,000 grant – Monterey County Herald: April 5, 2007

Soledad Farmer's Market to debut in June – South County Newspapers: February 28, 2007

Farmers markets move south – The Salinas Californian: February 27, 2007

Organic Evolution – Monterey County Weekly: December 28, 2006

Gary Patton’s Land Use Report – KUSP, Central Coast Public Radio: December 4, 2006

The Face of Food on the Central Coast – Health Quarterly / Special supplement published by the Steps to a Healthier Salinas Program in the Salinas Californian: November 7, 2006

Slow & Fresh: A Celebration of the Earth’s Bounty – Haven Magazine (Monterey County Herald): October 29, 2006

15,000 UCSC students reap benefits from ALBA Organics – Watsonville Register-Pajaronian: February 18, 2006

Farr praises organic center – The Salinas Californian: February 23, 2005