Sacramento Region CROP Profile
As part of the Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan (CROP), this profile identifies priority areas for infrastructure investments and programs to strengthen the Sacramento Region’s food and agricultural cluster. The Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan provides county and regional leaders the opportunity to address infrastructure investment challenges and collectively come together on solutions, including policies and investments, that will support the region’s agricultural sustainability and long-term economic health and resiliency. This profile summarizes key highlights from the county profiles and includes examples of innovative models that can be leveraged across the region for shared solutions and potential resources to meet vital infrastructure needs.
El Dorado County CROP Profile
As part of the Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan (CROP), this profile identifies priority areas for infrastructure investments and programs to strengthen El Dorado County’s food and agricultural cluster. The Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan provides county and regional leaders the opportunity to address infrastructure investment challenges and collectively come together on solutions, including policies and investments, that will support the region’s agricultural sustainability and long-term economic health and resiliency. This profile includes examples of innovative models that can be leveraged across the region for shared solutions and potential resources to meet vital infrastructure needs. CROP also includes a Regional Profile that summarizes key highlights from the county profiles.
Placer County CROP Profile
As part of the Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan (CROP), this profile identifies priority areas for infrastructure investments and programs to strengthen Placer County’s food and agricultural cluster. The Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan provides county and regional leaders the opportunity to address infrastructure investment challenges and collectively come together on solutions, including policies and investments, that will support the region’s agricultural sustainability and long-term economic health and resiliency. This profile includes examples of innovative models that can be leveraged across the region for shared solutions and potential resources to meet vital infrastructure needs. CROP also includes a Regional Profile that summarizes key highlights from the county profiles.
Sacramento County CROP Profile
As part of the Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan (CROP), this profile identifies priority areas for infrastructure investments and programs to strengthen Sacramento County’s food and agricultural cluster. The Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan provides county and regional leaders the opportunity to address infrastructure investment challenges and collectively come together on solutions, including policies and investments, that will support the region’s agricultural sustainability and long-term economic health and resiliency. This profile includes examples of innovative models that can be leveraged across the region for shared solutions and potential resources to meet vital infrastructure needs. CROP also includes a Regional Profile that summarizes key highlights from the county profiles.
Sutter County CROP Profile
As part of the Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan (CROP), this profile identifies priority areas for infrastructure investments and programs to strengthen Sutter County’s food and agricultural cluster. The Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan provides county and regional leaders the opportunity to address infrastructure investment challenges and collectively come together on solutions, including policies and investments, that will support the region’s agricultural sustainability and long-term economic health and resiliency. This profile includes examples of innovative models that can be leveraged across the region for shared solutions and potential resources to meet vital infrastructure needs. CROP also includes a Regional Profile that summarizes key highlights from the county profiles.
Yuba County CROP Profile
As part of the Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan (CROP), this profile identifies priority areas for infrastructure investments and programs to strengthen Yuba County’s food and agricultural cluster. The Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan provides county and regional leaders the opportunity to address infrastructure investment challenges and collectively come together on solutions, including policies and investments, that will support the region’s agricultural sustainability and long-term economic health and resiliency. This profile includes examples of innovative models that can be leveraged across the region for shared solutions and potential resources to meet vital infrastructure needs. CROP also includes a Regional Profile that summarizes key highlights from the county profiles.
Yolo County CROP Profile
As part of the Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan (CROP), this profile identifies priority areas for infrastructure investments and programs to strengthen Yolo County’s food and agricultural cluster. The Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan provides county and regional leaders the opportunity to address infrastructure investment challenges and collectively come together on solutions, including policies and investments, that will support the region’s agricultural sustainability and long-term economic health and resiliency. This profile includes examples of innovative models that can be leveraged across the region for shared solutions and potential resources to meet vital infrastructure needs. CROP also includes a Regional Profile that summarizes key highlights from the county profiles.
We Are Farm to Fork
A collaborative approach to solving local, regional, national, and global food challenges
We Are Farm To Fork encourages the use of local food in the greater Sacramento region to make a positive impact on health, economy, the environment and our community. We pioneer solutions that address the same challenges being faced worldwide.
The Sacramento region is geographically situated at the heart of one of the world’s largest agricultural economies. With 1.5 million acres of farmland, we produce an enviable variety of high-quality crops and food products shipped around the globe—making food and agriculture one of our most prized economic sectors. Our region has long served as a global innovator and leader in sustainable agriculture, food, health, and research.
Featured We Are Farm to Fork Projects
Sacramento Region Food System Action Plan
The Sacramento Region Food System Action Plan identifies prevailing challenges, opportunities, best practices, priorities, and recommendations to advance the region’s food system. The goal of the plan is to increase the vitality of the region’s food system.
The Lab@AgStart is the largest wetland startup incubator in California’s Central Valley region. The facility helps lower costs for startup companies by providing shared and fully-stocked facilities.
Alchemist Public Market will assist under-served entrepreneurs with unique opportunities to launch their businesses and will create a community gathering place, and provide low-income neighbors with access to quality food and produce from local sellers.
Scan the QR code to learn more or visit WeAreFarmToFork.org
Email FoodAndAg@ValleyVision.org to join us as we can continue to support projects aimed at making the Sacramento Region’s food system more accessible, sustainable, and prosperous.
We Are Farm to Fork is managed by Valley Vision.
Yolo Food Hub Buyer Survey – Executive Summary
As part of the Yolo Food Hub project, this survey collected specific information from institutional buyers in the region. The results will allow the Yolo Food Hub Network to create a facility that is equitable, sustainable, and offers a wide range of valuable services to consumers and producers. The results will also inform the feasibility study of the Yolo Food Hub as well as the business plan.
Coordinated Rural Opportunity Plan
The Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan (CROP) is funded by the Department of Conservation’s Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation (SALC) Program. CROP is a joint effort between the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) and Valley Vision. CROP is the next phase of SACOG’s groundbreaking Rural-Urban Connections Strategy (RUCS) to enhance rural economies and the natural assets that drive them across the six-county Sacramento region: El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba counties.
The Coordinated Rural Opportunities Plan provides county and regional leaders the opportunity to address infrastructure investment challenges and collectively come together on solutions, including policies and investments, that will support the region’s agricultural sustainability and long-term economic health and resiliency
CROP includes a comprehensive profile of each county that identifies priority areas for infrastructure investments and programs to strengthen the region’s food and agricultural cluster. The profiles include examples of innovative models that can be leveraged across the region for shared solutions and potential resources to meet vital infrastructure needs. CROP also includes a Regional Profile that summarizes key highlights from the county profiles.
CROP Profiles
Sacramento Region CROP Profile
CROP has defined needed food and agriculture infrastructure as physical investments, policy recommendations, and promising models in four interrelated areas: water, land use and housing, transportation and broadband, and food system and governance.
Food System Infrastructure
CROP Thematic Areas
CROP Map
Collectively, the six-county region has a rich agricultural history that provides a treasured legacy for residents and a strong regional identity. CROP has shown agriculture continues to have a bright future in the region: we have some of the most productive farmland in the world, highly skilled and knowledgeable farmers, water, and climate assets, supporting institutions, and a wide diversity of high-value crops. Through these models, policy, and recommendations, CROP aims to promote public and private sector investment in infrastructure and programs that strengthen the economic, social, and environmental contributions of the region’s food system, preserving the central role agriculture plays in the future.
Background
Agriculture Has Deep Roots in the Sacramento Region
The counties of El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba have a rich history in agriculture that provides a treasured legacy for residents and a strong regional identity. As the foundation of a food and agricultural economy valued at more than $12 billion, agriculture can have a bright future given that we have some of the most productive farmland in the world, highly skilled farmers, water and climate assets, a wide diversity of high-value crops, and UC Davis, one of the world’s premier agricultural institutions.
Agriculture is an Economic Driver
The region’s Prosperity Strategy outlines a strategic framework and bridge to action for the six-county region that prioritizes our core economic initiatives, aimed at advancing a more aligned, prosperous, inclusive, and resilient Sacramento region. The Prosperity Strategy includes initiatives to support the region’s tradeable industries – groups of related industries that support economic output through exporting goods or services. These industries are critical for local prosperity because of their ability to improve productivity and bring in wealth from outside the region through competitive economic advantage.
Agriculture is the foundation of our region’s most distinct tradeable industry – the food and agriculture cluster – comprised of crop production; packaging and processing; distribution; and support industries. Together, this cluster provides more than 55,000 direct jobs, putting the Sacramento region in the top fifth of large metropolitan areas in the country when it comes to sustaining a robust agricultural economy. The supply chain that generates our food and ag economy is deep, with its own unique networks and dependent sectors. As America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital, the Sacramento Region is both fertile and productive, with $2 billion in farm gate output value, more than 7,200 farms, and more than 1.5 million acres of harvested farmland. The overall cluster has an economic impact of more than $12 billion.
CROP is funded by the Department of Conservation’s Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation (SALC) Program. List of references and CROP stakeholders can be found here.
Should you have any questions, or if you want to get involved, please reach out to Grace Kaufman at Grace.Kaufman@ValleyVision.org
Yolo Food Hub Network – Esparto Facility Barn Warming and Community Celebration
Join the Yolo Food Hub Network as we celebrate the acquisition of our new site in Esparto!
About this event
The Yolo Food Hub Network (YFHN) invites you to attend a Barn-Warming in the historic 22,000 sq ft Oakdale Barn, part of a five-acre property New Season Community Development Corporation recently purchased on behalf of YFHN in Esparto!
The property will serve as the facility anchor for the Yolo Food Hub Network. The building will provide storage space and other needed support infrastructure and will support regional farms and ranches to diversify their market opportunities across the region. The goal of the facility is to eventually provide distribution, storage, processing, and packing services. The Yolo Food Hub Network’s facility in Esparto will also increase consumer and buyer access to healthy and diverse local foods, improve farmer and market sales, and strengthen relationships between farmers, institutions, and local communities.
Attendees of the celebration will include Yolo Food Hub Network partners, community leaders, elected officials, and other collaborators who are passionate about local food systems. Come learn more about the Yolo Food Hub Network and celebrate with us Friday, October 21st from 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM at 17720 Oakdale Ranch Road Esparto, CA 95627. The event will be co-sponsored by Slow Food Yolo, which will provide local food for attendees. Registration is required for planning purposes.
MORE INFORMATION YOLO FOOD HUB NETWORK
The Yolo Food Hub Network formed in 2021 with the goal to establish a new food hub facility in Yolo County that supports local and regional agriculture production, purchasing, and consumption. The Yolo Food Hub Network expects the facility to expand food production and distribution channels in Yolo County and in the Greater Sacramento Region, while at the same time improving healthy food access, stabilizing food markets, increasing employment and job training opportunities, and providing pandemic relief for farmers, particularly for BIPOC and historically underserved communities.
The Yolo Food Hub Network project team includes: New Season Community Development Corporation (NSCDC), Capay Valley Farm Shop (CVFS), Yolo Food Bank, Durst Organic Growers, Spork Food Hub, Esparto Train Station, Hatamiya Group, Kitchen Table Advisors, and Valley Vision as the project manager.
We encourage organizations and individuals who are passionate about the local and regional food system, to join us for this exciting event on Friday, October 21st from 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SLOW FOOD YOLO
Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us. Since its beginnings, Slow Food has grown into a global movement involving millions of people in over 160 countries, working to ensure everyone has access to good, clean and fair food. Slow Food believes food is tied to many other aspects of life, including culture, politics, agriculture and the environment. Through our food choices we can collectively influence how food is cultivated, produced and distributed, and change the world as a result.
Slow Food Yolo is excited to collaborate in sponsoring the Barn Warming and re-launching our chapter once again. Our wish is that this facility will educate the next few generations on the importance of building local food systems.
CONTACT
Please contact Grace.Kaufman@ValleyVision.org with any questions about the Barn-Warming. If you’d like instructions on how to place orders from local farms, contact Spork Food Hub (sporkfoodhub@gmail.com) or Capay Valley Farm Shop (tracy@capayvalleyfarmshop.com).
White House Conference – Recommendations from America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital
This document summarizes key issues and recommendations from more than 75 community partners in the Greater Sacramento region who gathered at an input session for the September 15th, 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. The session was convened by Valley Vision, in partnership with the Sacramento Region Community Foundation and Mulvaney’s B&L. Organized under the banner of our community food system network “We are Farm to Fork,” participants included a vibrant cross-section of over 75 leaders representing food banks, restaurants, school districts, nonprofits, local, state, and federal agencies, tribal and many more.