NC Bound

Last day in CA spent in San Francisco.  Clam chowder, Alcatraz tour, Bubba Gumps, then a LONG walk through China Town to the Ferry House--truffle salt is great but expensive.  Glad and lucky to have such great friends to share this experience with--thank you, Farm Bureau, for this opportunity to learn and grow in my knowledge of the agriculture industry and to meet and bond with others.
One really fun thing we did today was skype with our children while at Alcatraz--how cool is that!  To be so far away, yet they were still almost with us. The weather could not have been better.  Leaving tomorrow-at 4:15!!!--will be hard, but I am excited to get home again.
I hope some of you have enjoyed this blog and my travels this week!

Water, water, everywhere but California.

Today we visited a water pumping plant.  Sounds boring, but was very enlightening about CA water issues.  I am not sure I will ever see water the same way.  Not letting water run when I brush my teeth has taken on new meaning.  I am so thankful that we do not have the same issues in NC...yet.  Visited the CA Farm Bureau today.. The host of California Bountiful--RFDTV is so funny--the entire PR department was.  Everyone was great and wonderful hosts.  Tomorrow we visit San Francisco--clam chowder!!! then leave around 4:30am on Saturday.  I have been to CA on three previous occasions, but have seen an entirely different side or  perspective.  Urban encroachment, water issues, prices of land and water, regulations, anti-agriculture terrorists(they set fire to 14 tractor-trailors that haul beef cattle--luckily there were no drivers who routinely sleep in their trucks), these are real-life daily issues facing farmers in CA.  We need farmers.  We must do whatever it takes to support them.  They are some of the best stewards of land and animal.