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Today we are excited to feature the latest addition to the FarmsReach and Farmers Guild team, Tiffany Nurrenbern.

For those who don’t know her already, she has been working in food and farming for many years, most notably at Roots of Change (ROC), where she coordinated and led the California Food Policy Council, a council of councils across the state. Prior to ROC, she worked in communications at Gigantic Idea Studio, which specializes in marketing of environmental programs.

After a great first few weeks helping to get the first Mendocino Farmers Guild and Sonoma Valley Farmer Guild rolling, we sat down with Tiffany for a casual Q&A to introduce her to the FarmsReach community:

FarmsReach: What are your thoughts moving from agricultural policy to farmers and ranchers directly?

Tiffany Nurrenbern: I think that though we all come from different vantage points, most people would agree that we need a food system that brings health to our people, our communities, and our environment. It’s going to take a lot of people working on different fronts to make that a reality for everyone. At the core of the issue is ensuring that farmers can farm in a sustainable and profitable way that enables us to feed our communities more affordably. Policy change can help us to remove barriers that make this work harder and incentivize a new path forward, but that conversation can feel very far away when you’re busy making sure that your crops get to market. I’m excited to be working directly with farmers to support their work on the ground, and provide links to the conversations happening off the farm that impact them.

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