Contact Us

The UC ANR Urban Agriculture Team includes UCCE Farm Advisors, policy and advocacy experts, urban planners, agricultural economists, and more.

For more information about the team and our efforts, contact Rachel Surls, UC Cooperative Extension Sustainable Food Systems Advisor in Los Angeles County at ramabie@ucanr.edu. Or, provide feedback through our online survey.

If you are a resident of California, and you are looking for local farming or gardening information, contact your local UC Cooperative Extension office. If you are outside California, look for Cooperative Extension in your community at http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/.

Claire Napawan

Assistant Professor

Department of Human Ecology
UC Davis

One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
530-554-9490
ncnapawan@ucdavis.edu

Specialty: landscape architecture, urban agriculture planning and design

Rachel A. Surls Ph.D.

Sustainable Food Systems Advisor

UC Cooperative Extension, Los Angeles County
700 W. Main Street
(626) 586-1982
Alhambra, CA 91801
626-586-1982
ramabie@ucanr.edu

http://celosangeles.ucanr.edu

Gail Feenstra

Deputy Director, SAREP

Academic Coordinator, Food & Society, ASI/SAREP

Sustainable Agricultural Research & Education Program
UC Davis

One Shields Avenue
ANR Building, Hopkins Rd.
Davis, CA 95616-8716
(530) 752-8408
Mobile: (530) 574-4794 - NO text messages
gwfeenstra@ucdavis.edu

http://sarep.ucdavis.edu

Andrew M. Sutherland, Ph.D, BCE
SF Bay Area Urban IPM Advisor
UC Cooperative Extension, Alameda County

UC IPM
224 West Winton Ave., Suite 134
Hayward, CA 94544
510-499-2930 cell
amsutherland@ucanr.edu

visit my urban IPM web site here
visit the UC IPM web site www.ipm.ucanr.edu

Eli Zigas
Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program Manager
SPUR • Ideas + Action for a Better City
654 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA 94105-4015

415.644.4881

ezigas@spur.org

http://www.spur.org/

Julia Van Soelen Kim, MPH, MS

North Bay Food Systems Advisor

UC Cooperative Extension, Marin County
1682 Novato Boulevard, Suite 150-B
Novato, CA 94947
(415) 473-4204
Mobile: 530-400-7254 - Text messages OK
jvansoelen@ucanr.edu

Skype: jevansoelen

http://cemarin.ucanr.edu

http://ucanr.edu/sites/Grown_in_Marin/

Specialties: Community Institutions, Health, and Social Services; Community Development; Marketing and Distribution Practices; Food and Society; Urban Agriculture/Local and Regional Food Systems; Healthy Families and Communities; Sustainable Food Systems

Jennifer Sowerwine, Ph.D.

Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist in Metropolitan Agriculture and Food Systems

UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

130 Mulford Hall #3114

Berkeley, CA 94720-3114

Curator of Food Plants

University and Jepson Herbaria

1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg, #2465

Berkeley, CA. 94720-2465

jsowerwi@berkeley.edu

Specialties: Food security, biocultural diversity, food safety, participatory research