DECEMBER 2008: Buy Fresh Buy Local Food Guide Released

The Environmental Defense Center, working in cooperation with the Community Alliance with Family Farmers and the Ventura Ag Futures Alliance has released the first edition of the Buy Fresh Buy Local Food Guide for Santa Barbara, Ventura and northern Los Angeles Counties.

This guide is an excellent resource that identifies growers, restaurants and retailers who buy and sell locally. Through its thorough listing of restaurants, farms, farm stands, caterers, grocers, CSAs and farmers markets, this is the perfect way to find out where to buy your local foods and to learn more about food and agriculture through its informative articles.

Copies of the guide will be distributed widely throughout Santa Barbara, Ventura and northern Los Angeles Counties or can be downloaded here (PDF). Hard copies can also be picked up at EDC.

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary

Advisory Council unanimously adopts comprehensive report and management recommendations on ocean acidification, spearheaded by EDC and completed in collaboration with the Sanctuary Advisory Council's Conservation and Commercial Fishing Working Groups.

Read it Here:  Ocean acidification and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: Cause, effect and response (PDF link, 1.7MB)

Ag Future Alliance Comes to Santa Barbara in Historic
Display of Unity



Press Release
Santa Barbara AFA Constitution