We know our gift of canned tuna will not go far enough, but if more people take the time to think and find it in themselves to give a little whenever possible, perhaps, just perhaps someday we wont need food banks at all. At inception, Alcatraz Seafoods made a promise to their customers To be a different kind of seafood company by offering only all-natural, ocean sustainable seafood. And giving something back rather than looking to take has its own rewards in the long-run. Alcatraz...

Under the farm bill, they can also apply for low cost loans to help improve their business or modernize equipment, and other programs available to our nation's farmers. That's an important part of the farm bill and farmers are addressing it very aggressively. With a budget of nearly $95 billion, the USDA is the nation's premier food agency, and as the many measures in the farm bill are tweaked this year by Congress, fishermen need to make sure their ideas and needs are included. UFA's...

Gregg added that many farms with groundwater systems also are in a bind because they stopped maintaining the pumps or stopped paying for power after hooking into the San Felipe system. Reduced delta pumping doesn't just affect San Benito County because the system is a major water source for agriculture throughout the state, he said. Reduced pumping resumed on June 10, but Gregg said the reservoir's water levels are still falling by around two feet per day. Even if the district gets good...

Joseph's Catholic Church in Nipomo, fathers took in the great weather with their families at the church's annual celebration, which featured plenty of barbecue and an opportunity to share fellowship with friends from the community. It's now less of a fundraiser and more of a time of community fellowship. Father James Henry has seen the event change to include a diverse section of the community. The church's barbecues were stoked with red oak early as organizers cooked 1,500 half-chickens...

Supporters of farmers markets believe that because their produce does not travel as far as supermarket produce , farmers can pick the food at the peak of its flavor, ripeness and nutritional content. In addition to helping you heed moms admonitions to eat more vegetables, farmers markets present an excellent opportunity for people to directly support local producers. Their outdoors festival atmosphere attracts people who want to talk with farmers about the methods used to grow their...

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Two days later, we were a mile off the Havana coast, hoping to strike lucky in what I was told was the oldest big game fishing competition in the world. By the mid-60s, when almost all the Cuban bourgeoisie - as they were being described by then - had left the island, only a few locals were taking part. Think big game fishing and you might imagine huge, gleaming boats with names like "Wet Dream", and immaculately turned out crews. The 1980 tournament was cancelled, as that summer the...

It's part of a creation at Canstruction, an annual competition in which architects and engineers build structures out of canned food, then donate the food to Food Lifeline, Washington's largest food bank. It looked like something in which a toddler would love to climb, but in a few days the car will become meals on dinner tables for the hungry across Western Washington. Canstruction, born 15 years ago in Seattle, is now a national competition in 80 cities that raises awareness of hunger...