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Craig McNamara
Sierra Orchards
Center for Land-Based Learning
Breakfast Speaker, Tuesday March 8th, 8:00 AM
Craig McNamara is the president and owner of Sierra Orchards, a diversified farming operation that includes field, processing, and marketing operations, producing primarily organic walnuts. He also serves as the founder and president of the Center for Land-Based Learning. The goal of this innovative program is to assist high school students in becoming lifelong learners, overcoming barriers to change, and building greater social and human capital in their communities.
Craig is a graduate of the California Agricultural Leadership Program and a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum. His professional activities include: board member of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture, American Farmland Trust, Roots of Change, past member of the Foundation Board of Trustees University of California Merced, University of California Davis Dean’s Advisory Council and Agricultural Sustainability Institute advisory board member, Public Policy Institute of California.
He is the recipient of several awards including the Leopold Conservation Award, the California Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award, the UC Davis Award of Distinction and Outstanding Alumnus Award, and the Profile in Leadership Award.He is passionate about sharing his knowledge in sustainable agriculture and leadership with the world around him. Together with his wife and three children he lives in Winters California.
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