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 of transitioning, the on-farm trial he participates in with UC Extension and Chico State on reduced tillage, his frustrations with the lack of enforceable regenerative standards, and how he views his farm as a replicable model for large-scale row crop production. Includes discussion of the failed no-till/goat grazing experiment that cost over $500,000.
