Getting Food Funded
Feedback from participating start-up at FOOD FUNDED, the Bay Area’s food and entrepreneurship investor fair. “Thanks for the opportunity to present at FOOD FUNDED. While I was really pleased with…
A Climate Forecast for California s Drought
I would like to offer you a climate forecast for California based on our recent drought— but of a social, economic and political nature as opposed to a meteorological one….
Food Geeks Travel: Italy
We are taking a week long trip to Italy for the opening week of Food EXPO Milan 2015. This year’s theme is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, encouraging a platform…
Food Geeks Travel: UC Davis
The Mixing Bowl, in conjunction with the World Food Center at UC Davis, organized a “Food Geeks Travel: UC Davis” the day after our FOOD IT conference to expose our friends…
Closed Loop Systems
The Mixing Bowl, Larta Institute’s Global Ag Innovation Network (GAIN) and Sidley Austin LLP, with Finistere Ventures, present: GAIN Insight into Agri-Tech, a series of briefings and networking events around…
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…