Please join the Earth Circle and the Immigration Circle on a day-long tour of the best and worst of agricultural life on the south coast of San Mateo County.  The tour is scheduled for Friday, March 19, and will last a full day.

We will spend the morning on a bus tour of the region, led by Kerry Lobel of Puente del Sur, a community organization that serves low-income, mostly immigrant agricultural workers.  The tour will take us to large monocrop conventional farms, greenhouse nurseries, organic farms and a variety of agricultural housing, along with the sights of Pescadero.  The tour will provide a chance to see first-hand the face of agriculture today, and the challenges faced daily by those who live and work in a primarily agricultural community.

We will have lunch at a community kitchen in shared agricultural housing.  This will be a powerful and profound immersion experience and a chance for a direct connection with an often unseen community.

The afternoon will be spent at Pie Ranch, an educational non-profit farm that has been doing advocacy work around changing the regional food system.  Fueled by some great pie, made with ingredients grown on the farm, we can share in the vision of the future of farming and agricultural land use.

The tour will last from approximately 10:00 to 4:00, a bus will be provided from San Francisco with a pick-up on the peninsula.