Pie Ranch
2080 Cabrillo Highway, Pescadero, CA
Mission: Pie Ranch is a non-profit, organic, educational farm that focuses on promoting food justice and sovereignty through a variety of programs that center on visitor's engagement with regenerative farming practices and land stewardship.
Research Question:
How do Pie Ranch's educational programs lead visitors to develop an understanding of agriculture's relationship with social justice, leading to critical analysis of our food system?
Thesis:
While leading tours and programs at Pie Ranch, it became apparent that a lack of educational cirriculum and an unbalanced distribution of staff between the farm and programs team made it difficult to convey relevant and meaningful information to visitors during programs. These hinderences in achieving their mission where exacerbated by a damaged organizational structure and the nature of the organization being a rural non-profit.Â