Ceres Almond Grower Tests Cover Crops to Save Water
A KCRA-TV Sacramento news segment and article featuring Tanya Gemperle-Goncalves, sustainability manager for Gemperle Family Farm in Ceres. The piece explains how the 45-acre almond orchard has spent several years testing cover crops — including wheat, mustard, and legumes — planted between tree rows as a strategy to improve soil water-holding capacity and reduce irrigation […]
Rosie Burroughs — Abundant Year-Round Habitat at Burroughs Family Farm
A Wild Farm Alliance farmer success story featuring Rosie Burroughs, who discusses her farm’s approach to providing year-round wildlife habitat through hedgerows, native plants, and intentional stewardship of farm vegetation in all seasons — supporting pollinators, beneficial insects, and birds alongside organic almond, dairy, and livestock production.
Know Your Farmer: Full Belly Farm — Soil Health and the Principles of True Organic
A farmer profile featuring video and transcript interviews with the Full Belly Farm partners — Paul Muller, Judith Redmond, Dru Rivers, and Hannah Muller — discussing the farm’s focus on biodiversity, soil health, cover cropping for on-farm fertility, multi-generational ownership, and the importance of maintaining strong organic standards.
Full Belly Farm: A Model for Water Conservation and Innovation During Drought
A blog post from EDF’s Growing Returns series examining how Full Belly Farm uses voluntary conservation measures — including compost application, cover cropping, crop rotation, drip irrigation, and pollinator habitat planting — to build soil health and groundwater resilience during California drought conditions
Jalama Canyon Ranch
At Jalama Canyon Ranch, our farming philosophy is rooted in the belief that ecological health, agricultural productivity, and community resilience are interdependent. We steward this 1,000-acre landscape—situated just eight miles from Point Conception, at the crest of the Santa Ynez watershed and bordering the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve—as a living laboratory dedicated to the […]
The Plant Lab
We seek to nurture our relationships with plants so that we may cultivate a more peaceful, equitable, and regenerative planet. We honor ancestral knowledge alongside contemporary botany to strengthen culturally relevant foodways and local biodiversity. The Plant Lab is a botanical maker space, community seed hub, and regional seed bank in North County San Diego. […]
Pleasant Grove Farms
We are a family farm dedicated to growing great tasting, certified organic regenerative rice, popcorn, corn, wheat, triticale, and beans, while conserving our resources and restoring riparian wildlife habitat for birds, pollinators, and Monarch butterflies. We also have a grain mill which allows us to clean the crops from our fields and prepare it for […]
Full Belly Farm
Full Belly Farm is a certified organic farm located in the beautiful Capay Valley of northern California. We are committed to fostering sustainability on all levels, from fertility in our soil and care for the environment, to stable employment for our farm workers. We strive to be good stewards of this farm, so that this […]
Hummingbird Agrotek, LLC / The Agave Farm
We responsibly practice sustainable agriculture by implementing agroecological practices such as, maximizing crop diversification, organic fertilization, water and invertebrate conservation. We enhance carbon uptake by minimizing soil disturbance, maximizing biodiversity in the soil, cover cropping or mulching, applying compost yearly, and practicing agroforestry in our agave plantations. We are passionate about conserving and propagating our […]
Traceland
Traceland is a small family farm on the central coast of California.We have been growing certified organic avocados since 2005. As a family of landscapers and naturalists, the farm is at the nexus of art, agriculture and ecological restoration. Our food systems are based on agro-ecological production and keyline water management. We have seen satisfactory […]