Karen Ross

In this opinion piece, Secretary Karen Ross discusses the climate-smart agricultural practices California farmers and ranchers are implementing in conjunction with state programs.

In this opinion piece, Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, discusses why we need to make the Farming to Support States Act happen and make it accessible to all, so that it may provide an extra measure of support for our food supply, and begin true economic recovery for communities still reeling for more than a decade.

A farm is a great teacher. Like so many rural kids, my education was augmented and illustrated on my family’s farm in western Nebraska.