This is the Camino Real Farmers Market in Galita, California. It's in Santa Barbara County,

about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The produce is bountiful and it's local.

You've got three thousand ribs, so good. We've got lettuce and greens and

charred and leeks and fennel and turn-ups and artichokes and spinach and

cabbage and broccoli and about everything else that you can get your hands on

this time of year. Our farm is about two miles away from where we're selling right

now, the farm is market. Santa Barbara County has a lot going for it. The beach, the

University of California Santa Barbara and farming, it is in the top 1% of

agriculture producing counties in the US, about 1.2 billion dollars worth a year.

Now imagine for a moment that everything is interrupted by some kind of a

natural disaster. In 2005 there was a mudslide at Lecuencita which is a

community in the south eastern part of Santa Barbara County right on the coast.

That's David Cleveland. He teaches environmental studies at UC Santa Barbara.

The mudslide he's talking about killed 10 people. And also blocked off the

101 freeway and the railroad which are the main transportation connections

with Los Angeles and these transportation links were closed for at least a week.

So Santa Barbara couldn't ship its produce down to the distribution centers in

LA or anywhere else. Nor could it ship produce in. But that wouldn't seem to be a

problem since Santa Barbara grows so much you'd think that the grocery stores

would still have plenty of fruits and veg. So we had produce sections that were

empty and here's farmers with boxes of harvested fruit and vegetables that

they can't their distributors can't pick them up. So farmers we told oh yeah we

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