{"id":33959,"date":"2023-09-11T21:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccof.org\/organic-transition-and-market-opportunities-in-the-san-joaquin-valley\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:09:30","slug":"organic-transition-and-market-opportunities-in-the-san-joaquin-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccof.org\/es\/news\/organic-transition-and-market-opportunities-in-the-san-joaquin-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Transici\u00f3n org\u00e1nica y oportunidades de mercado en el Valle de San Joaqu\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Visita a la granja Vang Farms, foto de Molly Nakahara<\/em><\/p>\n<p>En las afueras de Merced (California), entre hect\u00e1reas de ma\u00edz forrajero y nogales, hay un oasis de diversidad de cultivos: una granja de 4,5 hect\u00e1reas que cultiva m\u00e1s de 30 productos para los mercados locales. Su propietaria, Latsamee \"Mee\" Moua, nos cuenta que su empresa, Vang Farms, es conocida en el mercado agr\u00edcola por tener cultivos \u00fanicos, a menudo dif\u00edciles de encontrar y muy apreciados por las comunidades del sudeste asi\u00e1tico. Desde la okra, cultivada por sus hojas tiernas y comestibles, hasta la j\u00edcama, la legumbre fijadora de nitr\u00f3geno cultivada por su crujiente tub\u00e9rculo, pasando por los alt\u00edsimos enrejados de jud\u00edas verdes, cuyas penetrantes flores est\u00e1n repletas de insectos beneficiosos, y los tallos de ca\u00f1a de az\u00facar, que se extienden hasta el cielo: la granja de Mee es un para\u00edso culinario y bot\u00e1nico. A las 10 de la ma\u00f1ana de un reciente agosto, una multitud de agricultores locales y proveedores de servicios se reunieron en Vang Farms para explorar la transici\u00f3n org\u00e1nica y las nuevas oportunidades de mercado para los productores org\u00e1nicos del Valle de San Joaqu\u00edn. Organizado por <a       href=\"https:\/\/farmland.org\/\">American Farmland Trust<\/a>, la Fundaci\u00f3n CCOF, el USDA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.organictransition.org\/\">Programa de asociaci\u00f3n para la transici\u00f3n a la agricultura ecol\u00f3gica<\/a>y tambi\u00e9n les <a       href=\"https:\/\/www.daily-harvest.com\/content\/aft-ccof-dh-partner-landing-page\">Cosecha diaria<\/a>El evento, denominado \"Farmer tailgate\", incluy\u00f3 una visita a una granja y un almac\u00e9n de productos org\u00e1nicos y una conversaci\u00f3n con productores org\u00e1nicos experimentados de la zona.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-image\"><img data-align=\"center\" data-caption=\"<em>Latsamee       Moua, Vang Farms (photo by Brian Coltrin)<\/em>&#8221; data-entity-type=&#8221;media&#8221;       data-entity-uuid=&#8221;80451c46-003d-4df7-91fa-b31e9a9ffd01&#8243;       data-view-mode=&#8221;viewmode_large&#8221;><\/drupal-media><\/figure><p>Mee\u2019s farm       was the first stop on the tour, and a perfect start to the day\u2019s conversation. A CCOF       Organic Transition Program grant recipient, Mee immigrated from Laos two decades ago and has       been farming successfully for the past five years. With a bright smile on her face, Mee picked       an oblong, orange melon from her field and passed out slices to eager attendees.       \u201cDelicious! What\u2019s the name of this variety?\u201d someone asked. \u201cI don\u2019t       know the name here; I brought these seeds from my country!\u201d laughed Mee. She wants to       certify organic for her customers and so that she can scale up certain crops and sell her       harvest to the small-but-mighty packinghouse that sits adjacent to Mee\u2019s farm fields,       Sweet Valley Produce.<\/p><p>Angie Bugarin, who runs Sweet Valley Produce,       grew up farming and saw a need for more wholesale market options for small producers like Mee.       Angie now prides herself in providing her community with a reliable market, and she has big       dreams! Participants at the tailgate toured the current packinghouse, which occupies an old       barn on Angie\u2019s family farm, as well as an enormous new warehouse that Sweet Valley will       expand into. The business is hoping to certify organic soon, and the local organic farming       community is eager to support Angie and Sweet Valley\u2019s       success.\u00a0<\/p><p>The Villanueva family, the powerhouse family team       behind <a href=\"http:>Granjas org\u00e1nicas Annas<\/a>son grandes partidarios de Sweet Valley Produce. Inspirados por su amor a la naturaleza, los Villanueva cultivan productos org\u00e1nicos desde hace una d\u00e9cada, y durante gran parte de ese tiempo han hecho varias veces a la semana el trayecto de cuatro horas hasta los mayoristas de productos org\u00e1nicos de la zona de la bah\u00eda. Un centro de envasado org\u00e1nico local que pudiera atraer a la cadena de suministro org\u00e1nico a abastecerse de los agricultores del valle ayudar\u00eda a granjas como Annas Organic Farms y Vang Farms a tener \u00e9xito en el futuro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Para saber m\u00e1s sobre el trabajo de la Fundaci\u00f3n CCOF, visite ccof.org, o p\u00f3ngase en contacto con la Directora de Educaci\u00f3n, Molly Nakahara, en <a       href=\"\/es\/mnakahara@ccof.org\/\">mnakahara@ccof.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-image\"><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visita a la granja Vang Farms, foto de Molly Nakahara En las afueras de ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"class_list":["post-33959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foundation-news","language-english","foundation_topics-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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