The Masumoto family is very honored and excited to share a debut children's book co-written by David Mas and Nikiko Masumoto. Every Peach is a Story follows a little girl, Midori, as she learns how to tell when a peach is ripe from her jiichan and family. It's a beautiful celebration of connection to the land, community history, and bonding across generations.

On Friday, March 7th, there will be a free Book Launch event at UJCC, 136 N. Villa, Clovis, CA 93612

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm : Reading aimed at kids and families

5:30 pm a Book Talk with co-authors and SPECIAL guest, award-winning illustrator Lauren Tamaki

Please join us for this moving event and buy a book!

Also, if you're not able to make Friday evening, consider joining "Blossom Bathing" (a curated farm-walk) @ Masumoto Family Farm on Saturday March 8 or Sunday March 9, more info: www.masumoto.com/blossom-bathing

For questions, e-mail masumotofamilyfarm@gmail.com

A Zócalo/The California Wellness Foundation Event

Moderated by Alice Daniel, News Director, KVPR

More than half of our nation’s fruits and vegetables are produced by California workers—who often risk their health to put food on our tables. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, farmworkers have been designated “essential workers” along with doctors and nurses. Yet most farmworkers lack health care coverage, even as they face health hazards including noise, heat, harmful chemicals, and musculoskeletal injuries. As they maintain our consistent food supply during the disruptions of our COVID-19 responses, farmworkers are potentially exposed to the virus while struggling with long hours, low wages, polluted air, overcrowded housing, and frequent relocations. What do Americans owe to the laborers who put fruits, vegetables, nuts, and milk on our tables? How are changes in technology and immigration enforcement reshaping the nature of farm work and its health—including mental health—concerns? What progress has been made in protecting the health of farmworkers, and what important steps are regulators or the agricultural industry refusing to take? Organic farmer and artist Nikiko Masumoto, Huron Mayor Rey León, health researcher Chia Thao, and Tania Pacheco-Werner, co-assistant director of the Central Valley Health Policy Institute, visit with Zócalo in the heart of California’s Central Valley, to consider how to make farm work healthier.

This event will be online-only, with audience participation via live chat.
Please RSVP in advance to receive event updates. 

As a convener of public events, we want you, our audience, to know that we are committed to the health and well-being of our community. The situation with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is rapidly changing, and the California Public Health Department has issued guidance pertaining to events in areas with potential community spread.

As many people practice social distancing, we feel that the public square is ever more important. During these difficult times, we want to nurture community and connectedness, and we hope you will join us online.

We will update this page with streaming instructions. And please feel free to share this event with friends.

Register for the event:

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/event/how-can-we-make-farm-work-healthier/

Details to come…

Nikiko Masumoto, alum of the Farmer Entrepreneurship Intensive at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, attended the Young Farmers Conference to give a workshop on “activating an entrepreneurial mindset” and facilitate a commitments closing to the conference.

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