California Agricultural Road Trip - Mark Schapiro, Senior Correspondent, Center for Investigative Reporting and Peter Cunningham, Photographer - In their "Pause", Mark Schapiro and photographer Peter Cunningham took two California road trips to explore various food-growing regions -- including the Central Valley, Sonoma, Napa, and Marin counties -- to explore how water, salt and heat are creating a new set of problems for today's farmers.   While forging a new way to collaborate as journalist and photographer, Mark and Peter tell the stories of how climate change is altering conditions on the agricultural lands now, in real time, with innovative approaches taken by farmers. They created a new language combining associative pictures paired together with text as a journalistic backup. 

Now, a "Seeding Possibilities" grant will enable them to complete and make into a coherent package their work to date through a variety of media --  including printing a limited number of books; with possibilities for dissemination of project elements on the web,  in magazines and other publication; and drafting a proposal to expand the project onto the national and international stages. Additionally, they plan one more photo-journalistic California trip to evoke yet uncovered elements to add to this story.