The Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) at UC Davis has announced that the 2025 Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award will be given to Dr. Joji Muramoto, Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension at UC Santa Cruz and Associate Cooperative Extension Organic Agriculture Specialist at UC ANR.
Fall 2024 brought with it lots of new faces to the Fresh Focus team, including a new Lead Student Farmer, three new College Core Fellows, and many new interns!
Fall was also a busy quarter for the Fresh Focus team, as we established a new seed saving bed to grow and collect seed from indigenous heirloom plants. Students also stretched their event planning muscles and collaborated with a seed saving library to host a dinner utilizing the crops we grew from heirloom indigenous seeds.
Learn more about how the Student Farm contributes to ecological, social and economic sustainability on our campus, from this student produced episode. Thank you Berit, Kristina and the whole Sustainably UC Davis team for highlighting what we do and care about!
The Fresh Focus team had an exciting and abundant summer, full of new community connections, friendship, delicious food, and an almost never ending supply of cucumber and squash!
We're thrilled to welcome Janvier (Jan) Velillaas the new Lead Farmer & Educator at the Student Farm Market Garden. With over 20 years of farming experience across the country—from upstate New York and Colorado to California—Jan brings a wealth of knowledge and a deep commitment to sustainable agriculture and community engagement. Here’s a closer look at Jan's journey, philosophy, and aspirations for the future of the farm.
A year of work together toward ecologically, socially and economically sustainable food systemsThe photos below capture a few highlights from a year on the Student Farm, sharing a very incomplete (but nonetheless astounding) picture of what the team of students and staff were able to accomplish. Alongside these stories, we'll soon compile numbers - interns, courses, pounds of food distributed, events and visitors, field trips, vegetable varieties, tons of compost, ground squirrel burrows - that convey a little of what goes on.
