Alba Family Farm Day

Alba Family Farm Day

Saturday, October 7, 11am – 3pm

ALBA is having their Family Farm Day on Saturday October 7th from 11am – 3pm at their headquarters in Salinas. Tractor hayrides around the fields and lots of fun things going on! This is a FREE event and open to the public.

Our Farm

ALBA’s origins stretch back to 1972 when the property was purchased from the Bardin family, using funds from President Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty’. Though the property changed hands in its first 30 years, it was always used to create economic opportunity for limited-resource farmers. In the 1970s the land was used to start a farmworker-owned strawberry cooperative. Management challenges lead to a switch of format and leadership in the 1980s, training farmworkers on the land to help them transition to farm ownership. Shortly after the 1990 passage of the Organic Food Production Act in 1990, ALBA earn its own organic certification. Drawing on the experience of its predecessors, ALBA was finally established in 2001. Since then, ALBA has provided intensive, on-farm skills development to over 600 farmers, of whom over 200 launched a farm on our land and nearly 100 went on to farm independently. Hundreds more have leveraged new skills to secure better employment.