News and Announcements

How Can Farmers Build Fire Resilience?

MESA announces the launch of newest online course “Farmers Build Fire Resilience” A hybrid online course and network dedicated to helping farmers and ranchers face a future of fire. Drawing on decades of training small-farmers amidst climate change, MESA, in collaboration with CAFF | The Farmer’s Guild, has now opened enrollment for an interactive course to give farmers the technical and theoretical toolkit needed to reduce the human, production, financial and legal risks from wildfires.

Alumni Achievements

MESA Alumni are spreading agroecology and food sovereignty around the world! From Peru to Kenya, here is how two Alums are sharing their talents and expertise. Peris Nderitu, Kenya MESA Steward 2011 This past December, former MESA Steward Peris Nderitu facilitated a “Culinary Art Skills Exchange” on traditional food and seeds from Eastern and Southern …

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Carta de Posicionamiento después de las Elecciones en USA

Querida comunidad Lxs saludamos llenos de esperanza Tomamos un tiempo para en silencio y como equipo reflexionar acerca de nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos frente a los resultados de la pasada jornada electoral, y ahora queremos compartirlo con todxs ustedes, nuestra comunidad. 1- Entendemos que nuestro trabajo, y cuando decimos nuestro queremos decir el el de …

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Celebrating Women Changing the Food System Panel

October 22nd marked our 5th annual Forging Farmers event, where we celebrated inspirational community changemakers, all women, with an interactive panel, emotional awards ceremony, and a delicious organic farm-to-table buffet. GRATITUDE We want to send a huge thank you to all the wonderful people who made the event possible – stewards, volunteers, staff, sponsors, and attendees! Thanks …

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