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4A Daily News – Saturday, March 16, 2013 Agriculture farm & ranch CattleWomen Spring Beef Promotion 4th Annual California Nut Festival Food, wine and beer lovers unite! With a focus on locally grown foods from the North Valley, the fourth annual California Nut Festival is scheduled for Saturday, April 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Each year, this popular culinary event showcases plentiful gourmet food offerings, wine and beer sampling, nutinspired cooking demonstrations, live musical entertainment on two outdoor stages, a wonderful art show featuring talented local artists and much, much more. Tickets go on sale March 18 for the 2013 California Nut Festival that takes place outdoors on the historic grounds of the Patrick Ranch Museum in Chico, California. Locally grown nuts including almonds, walnuts, pecans and pistachios take center stage during crowdpleasing cooking demonstrations in the afternoon. With an impressive history of securing talented and top-notch chefs to showcase the locally grown edible treasures, the organizers of the California Nut Festival are proud to host Sacramento's talented "farm-to-fork" chef Kurt Spataro at the culinary event this year. A farmers market enthusiast, Spataro will delight the audience with demonstrations of tasty nut-inspired recipes while his wife and popular radio personality Kitty O'Neal will participate as a special guest and celebrity emcee for the cooking demonstrations. The goal of the festival is to celebrate the culinary delights grown and produced in California while paying tribute to the region's strong farming heritage in Butte County and providing festival guests with an opportunity to connect with local farmers and growers. "With a hard-earned reputation as a vibrant, worthwhile and fun event, the Nut Festival has become a true destination event among foodies, farmers and the local community here in the North Valley and the surrounding regions," explains Kathy Chance, lead organizer of the 2013 California Nut Festival. "We're just thrilled to share some exciting new offerings this year along with bringing back the crowd favorites. In addition, the community should be very proud that their participation in this event helps to support the historic Patrick Ranch Museum, which is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the rich agricultural history of the area." A dedicated committee of local volunteers comprised of farmers and local business people coordinate the vibrant one-day festival, which benefits the Patrick Ranch Museum, a newly restored mansion and working farm managed by the Far West Heritage Association. General admission tickets to the California Nut Festival are $25 in advance (or $30 the day of the event) and can be purchased online or at any participating Tri Counties Bank location beginning on March 18. Tickets for children ages 7-12 are $10 and the event is free for children six and under. Proceeds from the California Nut Festival support the historic Patrick Ranch Museum. For more information about the California Nut Festival, visit the official website at www.CaliforniaNutFestival.com or call 530-519-1882. LAST CHANCE FOR BARE ROOT FRUIT TREES Take one home with you today! Tehama County CattleWomen members Kelly Moulton, Ann Butler, Joan Hemsted and Jean Barton attended the California CattleWomen Spring Beef Promotion meeting in Sacramento last weekend with 81 members present. Different areas of the beef community were explored. We had the opportunity to hear nationally recognized keynote speaker Jeff Fowle, Etna cattle, hay, and horse rancher of "Just Farmers." He is a thought provoker using the social media to share our story. Fowle uses Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, and other social media platforms to have a conversation, that leads to influence. One example was when Courtesy photo a vocal opponent to "conCalifornia CattleWomen Beef Promotion chairman Susan Cochrane, ventional" agriculture and genetically modified food Paso Robles with nationally recognized keynote speaker Jeff Fowle, had conversations via email Etna cattle, hay, and horse rancher of "Just Farmers" at the CCW with "Just Farmers". They Spring meeting in Sacramento. helped arrange a visit to Monsanto. She learned pounds; where they are sold for their 43 boxes of beef Research Fund to develop how technology is used, and or shipped to a feedlot. promotion recipes, bumper it. Currently 800 heifers now she is a bridge, explain- When they reach over 1,250 stickers, and information have been bred. Half were ing what farmers do to feed pounds they go to a packing they picked up from CBC. vaccinated and half the world with less plant or slaughter house, Each year they have a booth weren't, and they were resources. where they become meat. at the Del Mar Fair with turned out to graze in tick "Just Farmers" includes From there they go to a more than one million atten- country. So far some of the Jeff, Mike Haley controls have aborted, and wholesaler who dees in June and July. from Ohio and The California Cattle- vaccinated are still bred. ships to the groRay Prock from cery store or meat Women in attendance had CCA will sell and distribute California. Their market, and you, an opportunity to meet and the vaccine, like they have website is the consumer hear the president of Cali- done for Anaplasmosis. www.justfarmbuys the beef for fornia Cattlemen, Tim Foothill vaccine must be ers.biz.blog. Koopman of Sunol. He is stored, shipped and delivdinner. They have It is a commu- the 4th generation on a ered in liquid nitrogen, like noted that sucnity of farmers ranch that was started in frozen semen. cessful compaWe had an update on the and ranchers, 1918 in the San Francisco nies are neutral feedlots, packing Bay Area. He mentioned Siskiyou County water situwith a small plants, and retail how the Estate or Death Tax ation by the local Farm group of allies president. outlets that has hit his family two times, Bureau Jean and opposition. makes our beef and they have had to sell www.siskiyoucountyfarmThe beef commusafe and delicious parts of the ranch to pay the bureau.com/legal. nity is a business, The Ultimate Party for the families to taxes. and 10% will Last year 4,000 bills Meatballs were delicious. enjoy beef. never agree with Fowle told us were introduced in Califor- An informative meeting. you, and you are wasting there is no silver bullet on nia, and Governor Brown *** your time and resources try- how to get people to agree signed 900 of the bills. Our Tehama County Cattleing to change their mind. with us. Our message must staff in Sacramento lost Women are excited to be 10% are your allies, and be done by farmers and only one bill, and that was hosting Baxter Black at The will always stand with you. employees, not public rela- using hounds to hunt bears. State Theatre on Tuesday Don't waste your capital tion agencies. CCA currently has six evening, April 16th as part resources. We in agriculture are bills sponsored by legisla- of the 11 Days of Round 80% are neutral, or can uncomfortable receiving tors being heard. Among Up. be influenced, and want to praise. We must stop shoot- them are truck length, flat Tickets are available at learn about our beef cattle. ing ourselves in the foot. bed pickups are not com- The Gold Exchange and We should spend our time Be a LEARNER. Listen mercial vehicles, if you The Loft in Red Bluff, and resources having a con- to opposing views; videotape abuse and not Rabobank in Corning, and versation with them. They Embrace challenges; turn in the abuse within 48 Shasta Farm and Equipment want to know how we take Acknowledge new ideas hours, if there is an acciden- in Cottonwood. Prime tickcare of our animals, using with merit; Dedicate your- tal take of an endangered ets are $ 50 and admit you your own words, but be self to positive solutions; species. to a Meet & Greet with careful of using words they Encourage others; Respect OR7, the wolf in Tehama Baxter Black at 5:30 p.m. in may not understand. and Lassen Counties has the IOOF Hall, across the diversity. For example, "I have a California Beef Coun- been tracked with a collar. street from the State Thecattle operation." What I cil's Janell Fisher told us OR 7 on March 12th was atre. There will be beef meant was that I own cows about the promotion with tracked back to Southern appetizers, wine and beer to and calves that graze on the minor league baseball on Oregon. CA has been peti- enjoy. land. It isn't a medical oper- Facebook and Twitter, and tioned to list him as endanChoice tickets are $30, ation or procedure. in April there will be a 12 gered. The Commission and Select tickets are $25 Instead of beef "indus- page spread on beef with will study it for a year to for the 7 p.m. opening with try" with factories. It is bet- local ranchers interviewed produce evidence that he is John Growney as master of ter to say beef "community" in "Sacramento News & endangered. CCA does not ceremonies, and musicians because that includes me, a Review." want it to be listed, because Loosely Strung. cow/calf producer; the The Cattlemen will have San Diego County Cow- the management plan does stocker who buys my calves Belles drove a pickup to not have a guaranteed their annual Field Day at and raises them to 900 Sacramento, to have room source of funding for reim- Dave Ferguson's ranch in bursement for killed live- Cottonwood on April 6. The public is invited to come stock. 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