PBS Showcases California Protea Growers

We hope you caught the series premiere of the new KPBS show, A Growing Passion… The Business of Blooms. It aired May 2nd and 4th and focused primarily on San Diego County's cut flower industry. Host, Nan Sterman visited some of our local growers to learn more about the process. It was wonderful to see some of own CPA members being interviewed:

Passion For Cheese Ripens Into Jacobs Creamery

Not many cheesemakers can say they gave up a potentially lucrative law career to pursue the joys of 18-hour days with their hands submerged in a vat of curds, or up to their elbows in car grease because their truck broke down after picking up a couple of tons of milk from the dairy. But Lisa Jacobs of 3-year-old Jacobs Creamery said she was so disillusioned as a third-year law student by what she saw as the life of an attorney that she left to start her own online advertising company.

Colorado's Haystack Mountain Develops New Products, Local Partnerships

Walk into the Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy Creamery in Longmont and sniff the air. The smell wafting out from the cheese room is the fragrance of milk being transformed. It's whey-like, not surprisingly with a bit of a funky note. Funky in a good way, if you're a cheese lover.

Rouses Markets Forms New, Exclusive Partnership With Columbus Deli Meats

June 3, 2013 Rouses Markets

When Donny Rouse decides to replace his biggest selling brand of deli meat with a new one, you can be sure he's found something significantly better. After hundred of taste tests, and a visit to their state-of-the-art facility five miles south of San Francisco, Rouse chose Columbus deli meats as his new, main line of sliced-to-order meats.

California Celebrates Dairy 30 Ways & More For June Dairy Month

June is National Dairy Month – a celebration of the diversity of dairy foods and the farmers who produce the bounty. In California, June is "Real California Milk Month" as recently proclaimed by Governor Jerry Brown in appreciation of the more than 1600 dairy families who make California the number one milk-producing state and dairy the state's number one agricultural commodity