October is California Farmer and Farmworker Month! This month celebrates the dedication and vital contributions of California’s farmers and farmworkers and also acknowledges the workforce that produces over 400 different agricultural commodities in our Golden State. In addition, October 12th is National Farmer’s Day. To help us spread the word and how you can celebrate this month, folks from California Grown stopped by the print shop at the Sacramento History Museum! CA GROWN is California’s agricultural marketing program and connects people with the farmers, ranchers, and farmworkers who produce our food our state. We are printing the largest engraving in the Lewis Winter Collection for this occasion! In this video, Aida and Channey letterpress printed an electrotype (copy of a woodcut) that Lewis Winter created at his wood and photo engraving office at 627 J Street in Sacramento sometime between 1888 (when he bought the business) and 1901 when his mother passed away (the cut alludes...
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