Ripe for Change chronicles the profound changes to agriculture in California over the last thirty years. California is at a cross-roads in agriculture, fending off overdevelopment and the loss of farming traditions at the same time embracing innovative visions of sustainability.

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little,” John Kenneth Galbraith has written. California – always a fascinating marriage of opposite extremes – is the state where migrant farm workers rights were first won against “factory farms”, and the search for post-modern sustainability was born. Yet, it is also the state that has spurred the fast food movement and embraces the charge of technology. These are stories about survival, building communities and how food nurtures our souls while sustaining our bodies.