Increasing Farm Resilience Through Healthy Soils and Water Management

This year's Annual Field Day at the UC Davis Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility will focus on relationships among water management, fertility management, soil health and soil biology. 

Transformation is inherent in food as a material substance. Wheat, for instance, is transformed into flour and flour into bread, a process that is environmental, social, cultural, technological and political in essence.

How to ensure a safe harvest, from the field to the fork

What: Learn the basics of urban farming from UCCE advisors and local partners at this upcoming workshop series. Take one or take all four of these low-cost workshops!

Urban Ag Workshop Series: Production Issues & Urban Farms

Learn key concepts in site design, soil quality, irrigation, pest management, pollinators and backyard chickens.

Urban Ag Workshop Series: Legal Basics of Urban Farming

Get up to speed on zoning, permits, and local resources.

Each year we honor an individual who has exhibited the leadership, work ethic and integrity epitomized by livestock geneticist Dr. Eric Bradford and sustainable farmer Charlie Rominger and celebrate great leadership in sustainable agriculture.

From business planning to labor laws, basics to help you succeed.

The Agricultural Sustainability Institute is co-sponsoring this year's Farmers Guild-Raising event.

For Kat Taylor, banking is our original and most powerful form of crowdfunding so it's important to get it right. She co-founded Beneficial State Bank to help better align banking to benefit all and harm none.

Potential for Diversified Perennial Cropping Systems in California Agriculture

Join us for a webinar on diversified perennial cropping systems and mixed livestock-orchard systems (aka “agroforestry systems”) in California.

The goals of this webinar are to: