Burroughs Family Farms: Integrating Pastured Poultry with Dairy, Almonds, and Olives
A video in which Ward Burroughs describes the integration (“stacking”) of pastured chickens with the farm’s other enterprises — chickens following cows in dairy pastures and grazing in almond and olive orchards during winter — illustrating how enterprise stacking enhances soil fertility and overall farm resilience
Burroughs Family Farms: Pioneering Regenerative Organic Certified Almond Farming
A Q&A-style article featuring Benina Burroughs Montes, managing partner of Burroughs Family Orchards, describing how the fifth-generation family farm became the first Regenerative Organic Certified almond operation in the country, and how their practices — including cover cropping, planned sheep grazing, hedgerows, whole orchard recycling, and a catch-frame harvest system — improve soil health, water […]
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.
Sustainable Agriculture Leaders: Rosie & Ward Burroughs
A video profile of Rosie and Ward Burroughs, who farm organic almonds and operate an organic pasture-based dairy near Merced in California’s Central Valley, discussing their approach to regenerative and sustainable agriculture.
Rosie & Ward Burroughs: Farmer Heroes Building Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Farms in California’s Central Valley
A Farm Aid Farmer Heroes profile of Rosie and Ward Burroughs, who own and operate sustainable organic farms in California’s Central Valley, detailing their commitment to soil health, management intensive grazing, on-farm composting, solar energy, French drain water management systems, and their advocacy for climate-friendly farming through organizations such as CalCAN and WODPA