• The Future of Conservation and the Grazing Revolution: Farmers and Ranchers Ask Congress to Fund the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition 4/18/22)
• What defines a small farm in California? It’s complicated but critical to agriculture’s future (Agri-Pulse 2/9/22)
• As Farming Population Ages, New Partnership Offers Support and Tips for Transition Planning (AgNet 1/28/22)

 

2021

• Faith Investor Profiles: Impact Investing Pioneers – see Faith Investor Profile for CommonSpirit Health (Calvert Impact Capital 8/11/21)
• Hasta la Raíz | Down to the Root (Patagonia Films July 2021)
• Farm Credit supports FarmLink’s efforts to help people of color become farmers (Planting Seeds Blog, California Department of Food and Agriculture 6/24/21)
• California FarmLink [“…aka the ‘fairy godmother’ of the California small-scale ag world…”] (Edible Marin & Wine Country 6/1/21)
• New Finance Justice Fund Recipients Announced (Opportunity Finance Fund 5/3/21)
• Bertha Magaña Grows Power, Possibility, and Organic Produce in the Salinas Valley (Latino Community Foundation 3/4/21)
• Blossom’s Farm Needs a New Home (Aptos Times 2/2/21)

 

2020

• Website connects land owners with next-generation farmers (Vacaville Reporter, 10/19/20)

• How to Help New and Young Farmers Get Access to Land (Martha Stewart Living, 9/21/20)

• How Immigration and Trade Policy Have Shaped U.S. Agriculture (Life & Thyme, 9/3/20)

• Pandemic Spotlights Importance of Local Farms to Food Security (Resources Legacy Fund, 8/31/20)
• Comerica Bank Partners With Minority Depository Institutions (Los Angeles Sentinel, 8/27/20)
• Creative Strategies During COVID-19 Pandemic (Organic Farmer, 8/17/20)
• Local Food Heroes: Curt Chittock & Starbright Acres (Sierra Harvest, 6/21/20)
• BriarPatch guarantees six new loans for area Farms and Ranches [in partnership with California FarmLink] (YubaNet, 5/1/20)
• In the Upper Midwest, Cracking the Code for Farmland Access  (Civil Eats, 3/2/20)
• BriarPatch Catalyzing Local Farm and Ranch Loans  (The Union: News for Nevada County, 1/21/20)

 

2019

• BriarPatch Catalyzing Local Farm and Ranch Loans, by Catherine Van Dyke, Loan Officer, California FarmLink (The Vine, BriarPatch Food Co-op, November 2019 – see page 12)
• Turning Farm Workers Into Farmers (The New York Times, 11/27/19)
• Wells Fargo ayuda a pequeños propietarios, con Javier Zamora, Propietario, JSM Organics / Wells Fargo supports small business owners with its Diverse Community Capital grant to California FarmLink (Despierta Área de la Bahía, KDTV Univision 14, 11/19/19)
• A Network of Foundations Takes on Big Ag by Financing Small Farmers and Sustainability (Inside Philanthropy, 11/12/19)
• How You Can Support a More Equitable Future for Farmers (CUESA, 10/11/19)
• NFU welcomes 13 new participants for its 2019-2020 Beginning Farmer Institute [Using an adaptation of FarmLink’s Farm and Ranch Business Health Assessment] (Farm Forum, 8/23/19)
• Farmers grow the food. But who’s helping new farmers put down roots? (Christian Science Monitor, 7/9/19)
• Foundations Can Unlock a Food System to Feed the World, by Meredith Storton and Jennifer Astone (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 6/27/19)
• California FarmLink Cultivates Creative Capital for Underserved Farmers (Opportunity Finance Network, 6/4/19)
• Nonprofits partner to assemble Andreotti farm (Half Moon Bay Review, 6/4/19)
• Keeping it in the Family: The Andreotti Family Farm (Peninsula Open Space Trust, 6/3/19)
• Farm aid:  More than 170 acres protected on two coastside farms (San Mateo Daily Journal, 6/3/19)
• As farmers age, they face the challenge of finding successors to take over (Marketplace – NPR/American Public Media, 5/21/19)
• Farmers of Color May Soon Get More Support in California (Civil Eats, 5/6/19)
• Global Gardens expanding with loans from SBA, California FarmLink (Pacific Coast Business Times, 5/2/19)
• A Farmer Goes in Search of a Successor: The average age of a California farmer is 59. Who will grow our food when today’s farmers retire? (Capital Public Radio, as part of the California Dream series, 4/23/19)
• Investing for Impact: CFMC Invests $1.75 Million to Support Small Businesses Through FarmLink & Opportunity Fund (Community Foundation for Monterey County, 4/17/19)
• Zea Sonnabend, Fruitilicious Farm (California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity – CAMEO, 4/10/19)
• Finding the Next Farmer: Riverhill Farm (Capital Press, 4/5/19)
• The next egg: Investing our retirement savings in our local communities, by Janelle Orsi, Executive Director, Sustainable Economies Law Center (Shareable, 4/2/19)
• President’s Blog: Impact Investing (Community Foundation for Monterey County, 3/25/19)
• Farm To Fork • People Spotlights: A Different Sort of Rich at Midtown Farmers Market (Sacramento Press, 1/31/2019)
• Has New York Found the Secret to Linking Retiring Farmers and Eager Upstarts? (Civil Eats, 1/8/19)

 

2018

• How To Become A Farmer In California? Get A Mentor (Capital Public Radio, 12/18/18)
• For a new generation of farmers, accessing land is the first step toward tackling consolidation (Salon.com and its partner Civil Eats, 11/25/18)
• Susan True Steers Community Foundation’s New-Wave Charity (Good Times, Santa Cruz, 11/20/18)
• Innovative easement protects working farm (Davis Enterprise, 10/31/18)
• California FarmLink to provide farm business skills training in Sacramento (The Union, Grass Valley, 9/18/18)
• The Godfather of California Organics is Optimistic About the Future of Food (Civil Eats, 9/6/18)
• Local farm gets big loan boost (Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, 8/20/18)
• Anuncian Préstamos para Agricultores de la Costa Central (KSMS Noticias 67, Monterey-Salinas, 8/17/18)
• Underground Ag: you know, they do grow things besides grapes in Napa County (PacificSun, Napa, 8/18/18)
• Community Foundation Santa Cruz County invests $1 million in small farm businesses (KION News 5/46, Monterey-Salinas, 8/17/18)
• Planting for the Future: The pioneers of the organic farming movement are aging out. What will happen to their lovingly tended farms? (The Journal of Alta California, 8/2/18)
• Meet the Central Coast Growers Building a Better Water Future (Sustainable Conservation’s Blog, 7/30/18)
• New generation finds link into capital for farming operations (Half Moon Bay Review, 7/20/18)
• Groups sign letter urging Congress to invest in rural business (Lake County News, 7/12/18)
• Pioneering Marshall’s Farm looking to pass on legacy of natural honey in Bay Area (San Francisco Chronicle, 6/12/18)
• Valley congressmen should speak up for farmers of color in the 2018 Farm Bill (Fresno Bee, 5/11/18)
• Wells Fargo ‘Community Day’ Supports North Bay Fire Victims (Healdsburg Patch, 4/20/18)
• Silver tsunami: Helping Santa Cruz County farmers prep for retirement (Santa Cruz Sentinel, 3/21/18)
• Cultivating Next-Gen Farmers (Rural Cooperatives Magazine, USDA, 2/1/18)
• Capay Valley farmer leases acres to new farmers (Woodland Daily Democrat, 1/30/18)

 

2017

• New farmers’ biggest challenge: Finding land to farm (San Francisco Chronicle, 11/26/2017)
• Panetta announces Treasury grant awarded to California FarmLink (Congressman Leon Panetta, 11/6/17)
• California FarmLink receives USDA grant (The Packer, 9/21/17) and Coastline: Aptos’ FarmLink earns federal grant (Santa Cruz Sentinel, 9/20/17)
• The State of Local Farming (Edible Silicon Valley, 8/28/17)
• Growing concern: Organic farms need a new generation to keep them alive (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21/2017)
• Racial Justice in the Farm Economy Needs Community Capital (The Future of Farmland Blog Series, Sustainable Economies Law Center, 7/10/2017)
• Carrying On: Challenges and Hopes of Farm Succession in the Organic Sector (CCOF Magazine excerpt, Spring 2017)
• California FarmLink: Growing an Agricultural CDFI (4/25/2017) Special report on FarmLink’s growth as an agricultural Community Development Financial Institution and state tax credits proven to spur social impact investment in sustainable agriculture.
• Can Fish Hubs Rebuild Demand for Local Fish? (Civil Eats, 2/1/2017)

 

2016

• California FarmLink gives financial services to up-and-coming farmers (Monterey County Weekly, 12/08/2016)
• A New Generation of Farmers Rents to Cope With Soaring American Cropland Prices (Bloomberg Businessweek, 12/08/2016)
• Marijuana legalization promises challenges as well as opportunities for the Monterey Bay agricultural community (Edible Monterey Bay, 12/1/2016)
• Wells Fargo Funds California FarmLink (Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/28/2016)
• The Business of Farming Against the Odds (Civil Eats, 11/28/16)
• Digested: Buying the Farm (Civil Eats, 9/23/16)
• Farmers Convergence Brings Training and Networking (Ukiah Daily Journal, 2/17/2016)
• The Greying of California Farming: Success and Succession (California Health Report, 2/16/2015)