Foundation Founders Award to A.G. Kawamura
Newport Beach resident A.G. Kawamura has been awarded the Founders
of a New Northwest Award by the Sustainable Northwest Foundation.
Kawamura, a third-generation farmer, is a member of the Orange County
Fair’s Centennial Farm Foundation board of directors. Kawamura also
served on the fair board before being appointed by former Gov. Pete
Wilson to serve on the state Board of Agriculture.
Kawamura was recognized for his charitable activities in aiding the
hungry. During the last two years, Kawamura has donated $29,000 to Common
Ground, an educational project he runs at Marco Forester Middle School in
Capistrano.
Common Ground is an outdoor classroom for 1,550 students that raises
produce for the school lunch program and for Orange County Harvest, a
nonprofit organization that feeds the hungry.
Kawamura has also worked to support food banks by turning vacant land
into cropland under what is called the Farming Agriculture Resource
Management for Sustainability Program.
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