Apps for Ag Hackathon
Come code and have fun on the Farm of the Future in Coalinga! Apps for Ag’s recipe is simple: developers + growers = progress for a good cause. The event…
World Agri-Tech Investment Summit
The summit will bring together major agribusinesses, technology developers from international hotspots and the VC investor community to accelerate the adoption of sustainable, resource-efficient agricultural technologies. Our co-founder Rob Trice…
World Ag Expo 2015—Venturing Outside the Bubble
The World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA is an agri-business baptism of fire for a group of virgin Silicon Valley pilgrims. I attended the Expo for the first time last…
Why I don’t like "Local Food Systems"
More than the frustration of defining “local food”, I think what irritates me most is the term local food “system”. I come from the technology world where a system is…
Idea Hack Presentations
On Saturday Oct. 11, 2014 the Mixing Bowl held an Idea Hack event at TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, CA to look how to scale up local food production and consumption….
Mixed Up For One Year Now
Our team recently noticed that we passed the one-year anniversary of the first Mixing Bowl event. It caused me to reflect a bit on the last twelve months. Last…
AgTech Meetup in Salinas
A roomful of growers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and investors convened last Thursday evening for an AgTech meetup at the Salinas Rodeo Grounds, sponsored by Reiter Affiliated Companies. Surrounded by fourth-generation farmers…
ReThinkFood- co-presented by Culinary Institute of America and the MIT Media Lab
Details: Join the fourth revolution in food! First, there was the agricultural revolution, then the industrial revolution, and recently the green revolution. At reThink Food, a new program co-presented by…
Idea Hack: Pescadero, Part II
As a follow-up to our October Idea Hack in Pescadero, we held Round Two at the beautiful TomKat Ranch. We reviewed past concepts, discussed progress, listened to new initiatives, and hacked future…
Food Hackathon + Forum: Nutrition for All
THE FOOD BUSINESS SCHOOL(FBS) the newly established division of executive and graduate education at The Culinary Institute of America—is partnering with food + tech entrepreneur Tim West to present…
Toss-Up: Food Tracking and Traceability
Explore how food tracking and transparency is the bridge that links the agriculture and food sectors. Food producers need to track when and how their food is grown, handled and…