The Nuss Family – Farmer’s Footprint Feature
A Farmer’s Footprint farmer feature article profiling the Nuss family’s regenerative transition at Nuss Farms in Lodi, CA. Recounts the pivotal moment when patriarch Dave Nuss attended Kiss the Ground’s Soil Health Academy with Gabe Brown, Allen Williams, and Ray Archuleta, catalyzing the family’s shift away from conventional practices. Describes the brothers’ approach of starting […]
Nuss Family Farms – Kiss the Ground Farmland Transition Program Feature
A Kiss the Ground farmer feature article profiling Nuss Farms, a 5th-generation, 1,000-acre specialty vegetable operation in Lodi, CA run by patriarch Dave Nuss and sons Derek, Tim, and Tyler. Covers the farm’s history (originally an asparagus powerhouse decimated by NAFTA), Tim and Tyler’s 2018 launch of The Modern Acre podcast as an entry into […]
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 Farming – UC ANR Solution Center for Nutrient Management Farmer Profile
A farmer profile from the UC ANR Solution Center for Nutrient Management detailing Scott Park’s organic nutrient management philosophy and practices at Park Farming Organics in Meridian, CA. Covers his 4-year ideal crop rotation (tomatoes → rice → beans → wheat), how cover crops between each cash crop cycle provide nutrients and organic matter, his […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chorro Creek Ranch
On Cal Poly’s Chorro Ranch, near Cuesta Community College in San Luis Obispo, California, an HSP Demonstration experiment was applied on a 10-acre hayfield. The experiment, launched in October of 2020, assesses the impact of compost application along with reduced tillage practices on soil health, yield, and forage quality on a field with cropley clay […]
Park Farming Organics
Park Farming was founded in 1980 with processing tomatoes as the main crop. Through time the company perspective on farming shifted toward a more environmentally sensitive attitude, culminating in the transition to organic acreage in 1992. The change in company practices included more thoughtful crop rotation, extensive use of cover crops, gentler tillage methods, and […]