The Columbia Foundation has announced the award of a $30,000 grant to Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation in Davis for its “One Farm at a Time” program.

The San Francisco-based Columbia Foundation invests in sustainable futures. Twin Pines’ “One Farm at a Time” program is working with Jeff and Annie Main on purchasing the permanent easement of their Good Humus Farm to preserve it as a family farm.

“TPCF is proud to be a partner with the Davis Food Co-op, Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, Good Humus Farm, Tuleyome, California FarmLink and others,” a news release said.

“One Farm at a Time” will begin with the Good Humus Farm and then move on to protecting other farms in Yolo as well as other parts of the state and country. TPCF hosts Cooperative Community Funds for 27 food co-ops across the country and will use that same replication to extend “One Farm at a Time” to other food cooperatives.

A number of suppliers to the Davis and Sacramento food co-ops now make a contribution to “One Farm at a Time” each time one of their products is bought in the two stores.

“So every time you buy a product from Equal Exchange, Frontier Herbs (or) Strauss Dairy, you are saving local farmland forever,” the news release said.

TPCF is sponsored by Associated Cooperatives, founded in 1935 in the East Bay. Both groups moved to Davis in 1997. TPCF is the largest funder of cooperative development organizations in the U.S.

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