The University of Nevada at Reno’s Desert Farming Initiative is promoting climate smart farming practices
Profiles DFI, UNR’s student-run farm, showing how it advances the university’s sustainability mission via climate-smart practices, research, and event support.
Exploring Our Local Watershed: The Cache Creek Nature Preserve
A feature column from the Davis Enterprise (published October 8, 2024) by Yolo County Master Gardener Lorie Hammond, informed by a conversation with Jim Barrett, Board Chair of the Cache Creek Conservancy (CCC). The article provides an accessible introduction to Cache Creek’s watershed, history, and ecology — tracing the creek from Clear Lake through the […]
Ag Field Day in Richfield Focuses on Sustainable Farming
A local newspaper article from the Corning Observer / Appeal-Democrat (published September 2022) covering a Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF)-sponsored agricultural field day held August 19, 2022 at Handy Farms in Richfield, Tehama County. More than 40 attendees — primarily family farm owners and employees of larger farming companies in the North State — […]
Center for Land-Based Learning: Deepening Ties Between Local Ag, Local Markets, and Local Need
A community journalism feature article from The Dirt (a free, independent publication covering Davis and Yolo County), published March 22, 2026, profiling CLBL’s Community Food Program and its role connecting local farms — including Riverfront Farm in West Sacramento — to food-insecure residents across Yolo County. Features quotes from Community Food Program Manager Christopher Wong […]
Gemperle Orchards: Sometimes Finding an IPM Balance Takes Time
A National Nut Grower magazine grower profile (May/June 2022 issue) documenting Christine and Erich Gemperle’s decade-long evolution toward integrated pest management (IPM) at their 135-acre almond operation in Ceres, CA. Details how an accidental observation of beneficial insects during cover crop mowing led Christine to forgo a routine preventative abamectin mite spray — resulting in […]
Meet the Farms: Gemperle Farms
An Almond Living Magazine feature article (published July 13, 2022) profiling Christine Gemperle and her inclusion in the BBC Earth documentary series “The Green Planet” (Episode 5: “Human Worlds,” aired August 2022). Describes how a BBC crew spent three weeks filming at Gemperle Orchards in 2020 during a spectacular bloom season, drawn by the visual […]
An Almond Farmer and Advocate: Christine Gemperle
A portrait interview from the From Farms to Incubators journalism project (written by Kristin Platts), featuring Christine Gemperle of Gemperle Orchards in Ceres and Gustine, CA. Covers Christine’s background — a Swiss immigrant father who brought almond farming to California, her biology and fisheries degrees from UC Santa Cruz and Utah State, and her return […]
Grower Perspectives on Whole Orchard Recycling: Christine Gemperle
A UC Davis Whole Orchard Recycling (WOR) program grower profile (published March 20, 2019) documenting Christine Gemperle’s first experience with whole-orchard recycling on a 20-acre block of her 135-acre almond operation in Ceres, Stanislaus County. Covers her motivation (no viable alternatives for orchard removal after firewood and cogen markets dried up), the logistics of pulling […]
Nuss Farms: Family Values
A long-form feature article from The Rooted Journal profiling Nuss Farms and the multigenerational story behind its regenerative transition. Covers five generations of family farming history near Lodi; the asparagus boom and NAFTA-driven collapse; Dave Nuss’s openness to innovation; Tim and Tyler’s return to the farm via The Modern Acre podcast; the 2019 start of […]
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 […]