Arrested Sam Earnshaw Named 2020 Al Smith Friend of Agriculture: National

COMMUNITY NEWS Sam Earnshaw Named 2020 Al Smith Friend of Agriculture

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More than 170 tickets were sold for the National Agriculture Day Spring Luncheon that was to be held in March, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, finally took place last week at the Santa Cruz County fairgrounds.

The event was reconfigured to allow for people to take out their lunch, or attend an in-person, socially-distanced lunch.

The annual event is coordinated by the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau and the educational organization, Agri-Culture.

At the luncheon, the 2020 Al Smith Sam Earnshaw, winner of the 2020 Al Smith Friend of Agriculture award was presented Friend of Agriculture Award, with his wife Jo Ann to Sam Earnshaw for his strong support Baumgartner. of local agriculture. The award was He is the author of the 2018 announced by Tom Broz, past president, Hedgerows and Farmscaping for CaliSanta Cruz County Farm Bureau. fornia Agriculture: A Resource Guide for

Earnshaw studied forestry at UC Farmers, available at https://www.caff. Berkeley, graduating in 1974. He and his org/resources/on-farm-sustainability/ wife Jo Ann Baumgartner started out in and www.HedgerowsUnlimited.com. farming, then transitioned to help the agri- He chairs the Committee for Planned cultural community. Growth and Farmland Protection to renew

Between 1992-2011, he served as the Measure U in the City of Watsonville. He Watsonville program coordinator for the has served on the NOPE Campaign (No Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Overpriced Pipeline Ever) in the Pajaro sponsoring monthly meetings and field Valley, the Measure U Campaign for tours for farmers, sharing information on planned growth in the City of Watsonville, biologically based farming techniques, and and the “No on Measure T” Campaign to installing conservation plantings. preserve prime farmland in the City of

He runs Hedgerows Unlimited Watsonville. and is a technical service provider with He served as the Regional Program National Resource Conservation Service, Director of Community Alliance with working on the design and installation Family Farmers and he’s been a board of hedgerows, grassed waterways, filter member for Monterey Bay Certified strips and riparian restoration on farms. Farmers Market, Organic Farming Research Foundation, California Certified Organic Farmers (Santa Cruz Chapter co-chair), Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, EcoFarm (planning committee and organizing annual bus tour) and Watsonville Wetlands Watch This award is named for Al Smith, founder of Orchard Supply Hardware, who donated 3,000 acres (Swanton Pacific Ranch) on the North Coast to Cal Poly. The ranch has row crops, timber and a one-third-scale railroad, which was Al’s hobby, but like so many properties on the North Coast, it was severely damaged by the recent fires.

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