The town that helped build its own university
In the early 1900s, the Davisville business association organized itself into a chamber of commerce, and then did something remarkable: it petitioned the University of California Regents to bring a University Farm to Davis. Seventy other towns wanted it too.
That campaign succeeded, and it grew into what we know today as UC Davis. More than a century later, that partnership still defines us. Davis is a university town, a place where research, talent, and local business have always grown side by side.
It is, in many ways, where the future gets tested first, and the Chamber is where it all meets.
It is also an agricultural town at heart, surrounded by some of the most productive land in the world. Here, farm-to-fork is not a trend. It is simply how things have always been done, and how we have always done business: grown, not rushed, tended through relationships and a community that looks after its own.