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 4–5 crop rotations, challenges and costly failures during no-till experimentation (including a $500,000+ yield loss), how the farm became the first large diversified row crop operation in California to receive both Regenerative Organic Certification (ROC) and A Greener World (AGW) regenerative certification in 2022, and Scott’s views on the carbon markets and regenerative labeling landscape.
