The World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA is an agri-business baptism of fire for a group of virgin Silicon Valley pilgrims. I attended the Expo for the first time last…

More than the frustration of defining “local food”, I think what irritates me most is the term local food “system”. I come from the technology world where a system is…

On Saturday Oct. 11, 2014 the Mixing Bowl held an Idea Hack event at TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, CA to look how to scale up local food production and consumption….

Our team recently noticed that we passed the one-year anniversary of the first Mixing Bowl event. It caused me to reflect a bit on the last twelve months. Last…

A roomful of growers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and investors convened last Thursday evening for an AgTech meetup at the Salinas Rodeo Grounds, sponsored by Reiter Affiliated Companies. Surrounded by fourth-generation farmers…

Details: Join the fourth revolution in food! First, there was the agricultural revolution, then the industrial revolution, and recently the green revolution. At reThink Food, a new program co-presented by…

As a follow-up to our October Idea Hack in Pescadero, we held Round Two at the beautiful TomKat Ranch. We reviewed past concepts, discussed progress, listened to new initiatives, and hacked future…

THE FOOD BUSINESS SCHOOL(FBS) the newly established division of executive and graduate education at The Culinary Institute of America—is partnering with food + tech entrepreneur Tim West to present…

Explore how food tracking and transparency is the bridge that links the agriculture and food sectors. Food producers need to track when and how their food is grown, handled and…

Details: Overview This “toss-up” event will be a focused discussion amongst entrepreneurs and innovators to explore the opportunities and challenges in creating a scalable and profitable food recovery sector and…