A Sweet Future for Agriculture

I feel like I have someone behind me, helping me just in case I fall. Kitchen Table Advisors is there to lift me up.  

--Koy Saichow, Stony Point Strawberry Farm

MEET KOY

Koy Saichow grew up in a subsistence farming community in Thailand, where each season relatives, friends and neighbors would come together to harvest in their family’s vegetable and rice fields. When the Saichow family immigrated to the Bay Area in 1989, they brought along their values of self-sufficiency and generosity, and continued to grow Southeast Asian vegetables in their backyard for themselves and their neighbors. This powerful connection between food and community led her parents San and Muang back into farming, and in 2011, with Koy’s help, they opened Stony Point Strawberry Farm: a 10 acre organic farm located in beautiful sun-soaked Petaluma, specializing in, you guessed it, berries. Koy manages the business side of the farm while San and Muang focus their efforts on their passion: growing some of the best strawberries in Sonoma County.

With your donation to Kitchen Table Advisors, you can help build a food system where the future of small farms and ranches is as sweet as Stony Point berries. WILL YOU MAKE A GIFT TODAY?

YOUR IMPACT 

Koy, San and Muang are just halfway through our business advising program, and in that time you’ve helped them reach incredible milestones. Here is what Stony Point, and the other farmers and ranchers we work with, can achieve with your continued support to Kitchen Table Advisors:

• Regularly track and analyze their finances with tools such as Quickbooks, and begin to make more informed business decisions.

• Access new sales channels and explore value-added products to increase their revenue and feed more people.

• Use those same tools, and stronger business acumen, to forecast sales into the future. Growing food is a life-long passion for San and Muang, rooted in tradition, and Koy wants to make sure Stony Point can provide for all their financial needs for as long as they are physically able to continue farming and after they retire.

KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS provides direct support to 60 farms and ranches like Stony Point Strawberry Farm, in order to fuel the long-term success of their businesses and wellbeing of their families. Our core advising program focuses on personalized, in-depth business advising that spans at least three years to ensure our clients can develop the skills and build the networks needed to sustain their business well into the future. We work with a diverse group of farmers and ranchers - 90% of our clients are women and from communities of color - who lead our Northern California food system. To learn more about our pilot program check out our Pilot Program Impact Report, and to see what your support helped us accomplish last year, check out our (short and sweet) 2018 Year in Review. 

WILL YOU JOIN US AND MAKE A GIFT TODAY?