FOOD IT: Solution Harvest; challenges, solutions, design thinking and innovation from all around. On July 12th, 2016 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, representatives spanning the food, agriculture…

On May 5th The Mixing Bowl and Slow Money Northern California hosted the second annual Food Funded event. The goal of the event was, not surprisingly given the name, to…

This week I ran across our blog post “Mixed Up for One Year Now” that I wrote around this time in 2015 when the Mixing Bowl turned one. Now, having…

Last week the Mixing Bowl– in conjunction with Apps for Ag and the UC Davis World Food Center and Innovation Institute for Food & Health — held a multi-day event…

California may very well be leading the way to achieving the goal of nine billion for events by 2050! Just last week, we had the Latino Farmer Conference, the California Food &…

We at the Mixing Bowl have made a sizable time investment over the last couple months helping UC Davis launch new initiatives that move more of its academic research and…

Last month’s stock market turmoil is adding to an already difficult market situation in agriculture. We should not fool ourselves that this might not have ripple effects in the adoption…

This year, 12 impressive teams from around the U.S.–and beyond–competed in Silicon Valley’s signature ag and food business pitch competition, The Blender, at the 2015 FOOD IT Conference at Stanford…

Last week, The Mixing Bowl and Stanford’s FEED Collaborative hosted our second FOOD IT event on Stanford’s campus. We had an energetic crowd of nearly 500 people and great food…

On April 27th, 12 Israeli companies pitched a crowd from 20 countries at the Agrivest 2015 Conference in Israel. The event was hosted on by GreenSoil Investments, Trendlines AgTech, and Invest…

Recently at a talk from Peter Donovan of the Soil Carbon Coalition at Pie Ranch, Peter shared the old anecdote, “Think of a cat looking at a milk bowl on top…

I was asked to serve as a judge at the Academies of Social Entrepreneurship‘s Sustainable Fisheries Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition on April 23rd in San Francisco. Five sustainable fish-related start-ups…