Redwood Coast Rural Action

04/10/2015

A video all about forest stewardship!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euSBkfVQHy4&list=UCdCuNDvSiKO2EMm5hcgGCgg

An animated short by Aspen Center for Environmental Studies exploring how forests affect, and are affected by, the forces around them. Updated with a focus o...

04/09/2015

Redwood Coast entrepreneurs on Someone's Gotta Do It!

04/06/2015

Congratulations to the April winner of the Humboldt Women award: Wrangletown Cider Company!

http://www.times-standard.com/business/20150404/aprils-humboldt-women-winner-patricia-knittel

Patricia Knittel of Wrangletown Cider Company has won a $500 grant to help start her new business, according to a press release from HumboldtWomen.org.“I have just created my first vintage and will be up and running in the old Arcata Rec

04/06/2015

Congratulations Arise Gluten Free Bakery on 6 years!

Its our 6th birthday today!!!! In 2009 Arise began at the Farmers' Market with 1 type of bread, chocolate chip cookies, and beet chocolate cupcakes! We have grown so much, and we couldn't have done it without you...and have loved feeding y'all over all these years!

04/05/2015

More benefits of !

http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/biochar-culture-to-address-depleted-soils-improve-crop-yields-115040300900_1.html

Biochar, a carbon-rich organic farm product, which is obtained through high temperature treatment of locally available plant charcoal blended with low quantities of inorganic elements, could help repair and rejuvenate the depleted agriculture soils,

03/30/2015

Broadband for all!

http://ruralassembly.org/blog/2015/3/25/rural-groups-tell-congress-to-support-fccs-net-neutrality-rules

Today, the Rural Broadband Policy Group and 32 organizations sent a letter to the United States House of Representatives Judiciary and Appropriations Committees encouraging the policymakers to support the Federal Communications Commission’s network neutrality rules. The letter explains that network…

03/27/2015

National Rural Assembly! Save the date!

03/25/2015

A local filmmaker in Klamath revealed that this fertile & productive region is a food desert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIbeCm2NsN0

This film is about the issue of healthy food scarcity here in the heart of salmon country, Klamath California.

03/24/2015

webinar, tomorrow!

Register today to join NRHA’s free grassroots advocacy webinar tomorrow at 11 a.m. CDT (March 25): http://bit.ly/1bqwrBE

Hear about the latest news from Capitol Hill, including the SGR, and updates on issues affecting rural health.

03/23/2015

Redwood Coast Students will have greater access to continuing education.

http://www.times-standard.com/general-news/20150320/local-college-access-effort-awarded-3m

A collaborative effort between Humboldt State University, College of the Redwoods, the county Office of Education, local districts and the business community was awarded $3 million in state grant money to improve college access for local students.

03/10/2015

"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt."

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-dodge/biochar_b_6828510.html

Soil is the thin crust of organic matter that supports all life on this planet. And if we treat it right it might just be solution to one of our greatest problems: climate change....

03/02/2015

Did you mob last Friday?