As you feast, gather, and celebrate, waste can pile up all too quickly during the holiday season. Strategic shopping, creative leftover reuse, and mindfulness around excess can help prevent food waste, but food scraps are pretty much an inevitable part…

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) Marketing Competition Team took on the challenge of researching and proposing how Food Forward can maximize our impact in the produce industry, and in the communities we serve through, identifying new opportunities for recovery and donation.

If you live in Los Angeles, Ventura County, or elsewhere in Southern California, and are looking to add shade to your garden and more fruit to your diet, then it’s time to plant a fruit tree. Here are the 13 best fruit trees to plant in your Southern Californian garden, along with information on how and when to harvest fruit from Food Forward's Backyard Harvest Team.

Farmers markets are more than places to grocery shop—they are bustling community centers that are abundant with food, culture, resources, and caring people.

By Andrea Howry, Ventura County Backyard Harvest Coordinator I love strawberries. Lima beans, not so much. Sugar beets? Not sure I’ve ever tried one. So it’s a good thing I’m living in California’s Ventura County now rather than 100 years…

If you’ve been living in Southern California for the last few years or decades, you’re likely familiar with the changing weather patterns. In 2012 to 2016, we experienced a very harsh five-year drought and 2023-2024 had record-setting winter storms and…