On-Farm Benefits of Healthy Soils

Panel discussion from NCAT’s second Soil Innovations Conference (March 2022) on the practical, on-farm benefits of healthy-soil practices, featuring farmers Christopher Grotegut (Tierra de Esperanza) and Tommy Bottoms (Timothy and Viguie Farming/El Molino Farms), moderated with ATTRA specialist Justin Duncan.

Cover Crops in Perennials in the San Joaquin Valley

This video covers research on water dynamics while a new table grape vineyard was established with cover crops in the San Joaquin Valley. There are two cover crop treatments, one with native plant species and another with introduced plant species. The native mixture was dominated by Tansy Phacelia and the introduced mix was dominantly Merced […]

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 […]

Scott Park: A Normal CA Farm Farmed Abnormally | Real Organic Podcast #205

A full-length YouTube video of Scott Park’s talk delivered at Real Organic Project’s “Farmer Friday” event at Churchtown Dairy in Hudson, New York on September 27, 2024 (also published as Real Organic Podcast Episode #205, December 2024). Scott presents detailed slides on how Park Farming Organics — a 1,700-acre certified organic and Regenerative Organic Certified […]

Students from UC Davis visiting Phil Foster’s farm in Hollister

This short video shows Hollister, CA farmer, Phil Foster hosting students in the PLS110 Vegetable Crop Production class at his farm on Saturday, November 10th, 2022. He took them on a very nice walking tour of several areas and facilities at his organic vegetable farm.