In case you missed them, here are links to the blogs posted by the Alliance for Food and Farming’s 2023 Safe Fruits and Veggies Farm Tour guests. This year’s tour took place on the Monterey Peninsula and featured leafy green, vegetable and berry farms as well as processing and cooling facilities.

Click on the links below to read the guests’ blogs about their experiences and what they learned as well as see beautiful photos from the farms they visited and people they met during the tour.

5 Facts To Know Before Produce Shopping – Mascha Davis

AFF Farm Tour: Without Farmers, We Don’t Eat. – Maya Feller 

Trip to Monterey California with Alliance for Food and Farming Recap — Rachael Hartley 

Is Organic Food for Baby Necessary? — Malina Malkani

To see social posts featuring more in-depth content and videos and photos from all our guests visit @safeproduce. 

The AFF has held these tours since 2017 to provide nutrition communicators and social influencers with a firsthand look at the care and commitment by farmers to grow safe and nutritious foods. The 2023 guest list also included Amy Gorin, Andrea Mathis, Marisa Moore, Kylie Sakaida and Lauren Twigge.

The guests are contributors to Today Show, Good Morning America, New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, Shape, Parents, Martha Stewart, Eating Well, Food Network, Self, Prevention, People and CNN, among others. And, they have millions of combined followers on social media.

The AFF sincerely thanks our sponsors who made the tour possible:  California Giant Berry Farms, the California Strawberry Commission, Earthbound Farms, the Grower Shipper Association of Central California, the International Fresh Produce Association, Taylor Farms and Western Growers Association.

We also extend our thanks to Dr. Trevor Suslow, Extension Research Specialist Emeritus, UC Davis, and Dr. Carl Winter, Extension Food Toxicologist Emeritus, UC Davis, who shared their food safety, regulatory and toxicology knowledge throughout the experience.

Interested in sponsoring the tour or being a guest, contact us at info@foodandfarming.info to learn more.