California Bountiful TV & Magazine
California Bountiful Television
California Bountiful TV is a 30-minute weekly tour of the state's dynamic food industry. It features stories on the people, places and lifestyles that have made California the nation's largest food-producing state. California Farm Bureau produces the bimonthly magazine and weekly TV program for audiences that may not be familiar with farming, ranching and food production.
The half-hour-format show will be broadcast on KION TV starting in July 2022; you can also watch stories on-line here.
California Bountiful Magazine
Just like the weekly television program of the same name, California Bountiful magazine connects the people, places and stories of rural life to your life—no matter where you live. The magazine is published six times a year and is one of the many benefits enjoyed by Farm Bureau consumer members. To read articles online, visit the CA Bountiful Magazine web site at www.californiabountiful.com.
New articles on California food, people and places!
Read about poinsettias grown at a California nursery, saffron production, using chocolate leaves in tasty desserts, refining fruit wines, growing amazing vegetables, chef's special recipes, and much more!
> Go to the California Bountiful Magazine website.
Featured Stories from Monterey County
Ramiro Ruiz Jr. is an unsung hero of agriculture: the one who comes to the rescue when a piece of equipment
breaks down and farmers can’t finish a harvest, transport produce or plant a field. A mechanic for 16 years for
Dole Fresh Vegetables/Bud of California in Monterey County, Ruiz and his 25 colleagues work hard maintaining agricultural machinery—so farmers and truck drivers can get nutritious food to America’s dinner tables. Click to read his story here and then view his award-winning photo below.
Visions of California: Monterey County photographer wins first place in the annual Farm Bureau Photo Contest. Ramiro Ruiz, who works as a farm mechanic, was driving on August 16, 2020, when he saw a foreboding cloud moving in over the farm fields of the Salinas Valley. "It started getting black. It's a wildfire," Ruiz recalled. "I pulled over at one of our romaine lettuce fields and I grabbed the picture. It was nice and clear and sunny, and, next thing you know, that great big ol' plume of smoke was over the Salinas Valley."
Getting married these days can sometimes take a lot of Patience. Literally.
Mark Silacci, who owns Swenson & Silacci floral shops in Salinas and Monterey, says the pale Patience rose is just the thing to deliver the trending colors of cream and white that many couples request. He also favors the peach-colored Juliet rose and turns to a grower just a few miles up the road, Green Valley Floral, for fresh-cut stems of both varieties to create arrangements that play to current trends. > Read the full article
"Spreckels Crossing is a really amazing project," Assistant Manager Briselda Gutierrez said. "We provide housing for the field workers at a really low, low cost." The 450 or so seasonal residents at the 100-unit employee housing complex she helps manage now have a better option for living space. Opened in 2016, the complex offers fully furnished two-bedroom units and a slew of amenities to Tanimura & Antle's full-time harvest employees. > Read the full article
California is the nation's top agricultural producer, but that doesn't mean everyone living in the state has enough to eat. Members of the Central Coast Young Farmers and Ranchers program aim to change that. When companies have a surplus of product, YF&R members help get the food to those in need through Ag Against Hunger.
> Read the full article
