Scott Park: Can Organic No-Till Vegetables Be Grown at Scale? | Real Organic Podcast #122
A Real Organic Podcast web page (Episode #122) featuring an interview with Scott Park examining whether organic no-till vegetable production is achievable at commercial scale in California. Scott discusses his participation in the USDA NRCS CIG-funded research partnership with UC Extension, CSU Chico, and Fresno State; his on-farm no-till experiments including a costly 350-acre trial […]
Scott Park: Why Don’t More People Farm Organically? | Real Organic Podcast #080
A YouTube video of Real Organic Podcast Episode #080 (published September 6, 2022) featuring an extended interview with Scott Park of Park Farming Organics in Meridian, CA. Scott discusses why more California farmers haven’t transitioned to organic production, his own 35-year journey from conventional to organic and regenerative practices, the economic realities and financial hardships […]
Long-Term Soil Strategies Drive Many Environmental Benefits at Park Farming Organics
A CalCAN (California Climate & Agriculture Network) Farmer Climate Leader profile on Scott Park and Park Farming Organics, detailing how decades of cover cropping and composting have dramatically increased soil organic matter and carbon sequestration, improved water retention and drought resilience (cutting the number of irrigations needed), reduced synthetic fertilizer and pesticide dependency by 90%+, […]
Scott Park – Park Farming Organics Demo Farm Profile
A farm profile from CSU Chico’s Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems documenting Scott Park’s 50-year journey from conventional processing tomato farming to one of California’s most celebrated large-scale regenerative organic operations. Covers his 1985 soil revelation, his participation in the USDA NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) project with UC Extension, Chico State, and […]
Park Farming Organics: Regenerative Transition Offers Lessons for Row Crop Growers
A trade magazine article from Organic Grower profiling Scott Park’s ~35-year regenerative transition at Park Farming Organics in Meridian, CA. Covers his soil management philosophy (“100% respect for the soil”), how cover crops and compost doubled soil organic matter over 30 years, his pivot away from intensive tillage to “targeted tillage,” his use of elaborate […]
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. […]
Santa Cruz Permaculture
As of April 2022 we are stewards of a beautiful 26-acre farm, which lies on the unceded territory of the Quiroste people, near Davenport, CA. The land has been managed organically for the past 30 years and now we are transitioning to a regenerative, organic, no-till, mixed vegetable, flower, fruit, herb, and agroforestry farm with […]