Your Farmers Guild: A User's Manual

With 11 chapters now active across the state, we at the Farmers Guild have compiled a few examples of how farmers and food advocates like you are leveraging their local guild to support a new generation of sustinable agriculture.

​The El Dorado Guild is making plans for the bulk purchase of compostable produce bags--an innovative new product but one that requires a hefty minimum order... feasible only when small farmers band together.

The Sonoma Valley Guild invited Assemblyman and chair of the state's Agriculture Committee, Bill Dodd to come hear the voices of small-scale, new and ecologically-focused farmers, assuring that his perspective on farm-related issues isn't only informed by the big ag lobbyists who visit him in Sacramento.

​The Yolo Guild hosted a hands-on welding workshop, sharing skills of local farmers and increasing the practical know-how of new agrarians in their community.


​The Sebastopol Guild held a candidate forum for their local county supervisor seat, an opportunity to focus local politics on the issues most important to the food and farming community that calls the Guild home.

​The Petaluma Guild took turns each month visiting each others farms, showing off their soil, troubleshooting real-world challenges and tapping into the collective genius of their peers

​The Mendocino Coast guild, working with their local food hub, is going in on a bulk purchase of heavy-duty harvest crates to reduce waste and keep costs down.

​The San Luis Obispo Farmers Guild brought in local farmers to talk about growing high-value crops for the local market and enhance farm viability.

​HOW WILL YOU LEVERAGE YOUR FARMERS GUILD?