Articles with the Tag: Lake County Community Development Corporation

With fluffy bangs, long eyelashes and fuzzy bodies, alpacas look a bit like teddy bears — or at least huacaya alpacas do. The Peruvian animals greeted folks who arrived at Black Wolf Ranch, the site of last week’s Multifunctional Agriculture Class offered by the Community Food and Agriculture ...

RONAN — Multifunctional agriculture is a mouthful, but the term means developing another revenue source besides raising cows and horses or growing cherries on a farm or ranch. The Community Food and Agriculture Coalition and Lake County Community Development are excited to be offering a four-session...

RONAN — Ronan’s Harvest Foods began labeling locally produced food in October as part of a partnership with Mission Mountain Food Enterprises.  As the brain-child of the Five Valley Food and Agriculture Summit held in December of 2011, MTCC AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer Shay Farmer said it h...

RONAN — Farm-to-school initiatives are programs and efforts designed to connect schools with local food producers. In addition to boosting the local economy, these programs help to educate students and teachers on the importance of healthy food choices, the process of agriculture and ranching and, very...