Even with California’s rich agricultural heritage, children don’t make the connection between the acres of farmland around them to the food on their tables. SEEAG’s agricultural and nutrition education programs help make that connection. Providing students with free field trips to local farms brings the message home even further.

I come from a multi-generational dairy farming family in the Adirondacks. When I arrived to Ventura County, California over 20 years ago and saw the bounty of local agriculture and farms it inspired me to educate local school children about the farm origins of food and to respect local growers, farmworkers, farmland, and the nutritious food on our tables. Now, after providing over 65,000 school children with cost-free field trips to local farms, there is not a day that goes by that I don't think about and appreciate my father and farmer.

SEEAG is dedicated to the memory of my father and was founded to cultivate agricultural ambassadors with the hope they will help preserve family farms around the world.

I hope you are inspired by SEEAG’s mission. Thank you.