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March 20, 2025 9:00 am
Annual California Soil Health Field Days at Chico State University
Dates: March 20th – March 21st
Location: Chico State University Farm, 311 Nicholas C Shouten Lane Chico, CA 95928
- This two-day event is dedicated to exploring and promoting regenerative agricultural practices that enhance soil health, biodiversity, productivity and profitability across farming systems and communities. The first day will be devoted to regenerative cropping systems while the second will focus on regenerative grazing systems.
- View the agenda here: https://csuchico-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/zjbrigham_csuchico_edu/EcVdu9pM3JZCmbgR5ZVv5qcBvR7k2wphhCYhZiUGkUaG6w?rtime=au5iCw5K3Ug
- Last day to register is Thursday 3/13!
March 21, 2025 10:00 am
Train-the-Trainer Workshop: CropManage Software & Future Outlook
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Learning about the CropManage Software: Discover how this tool can streamline irrigation and nitrogen management practices and improve decision-making.
- Conducting the Workshop: Gain insights on how to effectively train others on the use of CropManage.
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The Future of CropManage: Participate in discussions on using CropManage to support your research, extension, and teaching program and promoting adoption of CropManage in California.
March 25, 2025 8:30 am
Grazing in Orchards Field Day and Monitoring Training
Point Blue (in partnership with General Mills and East Stanislaus RCD) is hosting a soil health field day on March 25th in Waterford. The morning portion is a demonstration of sheep grazing in orchards and the afternoon is dedicated to learning the Ag-C monitoring protocol. There will also be an optional pre-field webinar on March 18th for technical service providers on designing a carbon monitoring project using Ag-C.
Lunch is provided! RSVP here by March 18th.
Learn more here
March 26, 2025 8:30 pm
Resilient Rangelands: Stewarding Grassland Ecosystems for the Future
Resilient Rangelands: Stewarding Grassland Ecosystems for the Future
March 26, 2025
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Stemple Creek Ranch, Tomales
$30
Join the North Coast Soil Hub, Stemple Creek Ranch, and Point Blue Conservation Science for a day on the land exploring on-farm resilience, grazing management strategies for resource conservation, and evaluation and monitoring tools. With extreme weather events increasing in the region, hear from local ranchers how they are building resilience to drought, floods, wildfire, and seasonal shifts. In addition to learning valuable tools for evaluating changes and monitoring indicators of ecosystem health over time, participants will have the opportunity to gather together, share experiences, and strengthen our regional network.
March 27, 2025 9:30 am
Interactions Between Cover Cropping and Integrated Grazing in Walnuts
Drew Cheney of Machado Family Farms will share his experiences of working with Tom Johnson to trial various cover crop mixes designed to be grazable and, and depending on the mix, to increase pollinator forage availability, increase soil water infiltration, fix nitrogen, and much more!
We will also go on an interactive tour of the farm where we will be observing the differences in soil quality across the five different cover crop seed mixes by using tools like soil probes, shovels, and infiltration rings. Also, we will see how the different mixes will attract beneficial insects by using a sweep net and observing sticky cards.
Tom Johnson will describe the decision making process of selecting a cover crop to address grower’s soil needs and what factors they considered on Machado Family Farms before selecting the mixes they planted. We’ll also hear from Vince Arburua of VA Livestock and Frankie Arburua of F Ewe Sheep Company about integrated grazing into cropping systems and considerations from a grazing perspective.
Details:
This event will take place in Linden, CA. The address will be provided in the confirmation email after RSVPing.
We will be walking into the field for hands on activities and sampling, so please make sure to bring comfortable walking shoes and a hat!
Coffee, water, and snacks will be provided.
March 27, 2025 9:30 am
Grazing In Vineyards Workshop
- Join Ecological Farming Program Manager, Layla Aguilar, in Napa on March 27th to learn about research, best management practices and practical techniques for integrating sheep in vineyard systems.
- This is a free event and DPR credits are available!