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In April, 2023, Tom Johnson of Kamprath Seed Co. joined me for a field day showing the results of different kinds of cover crop that we had planted in a walnut orchard the previous November. He describes the characteristics and uses of grasses, mustards, and legumes as cover crops in the context of their performance in the trial. The cover crops we tried were a winter triticale, the seeds for b...

A virtual site visit with Matthew Sylvester of Happy Acre Farm at the Sunol Ag Park in Alameda County. This recording is part of the Cover Cropping Opportunities in Specialty Crops series of webinars and virtual site visits presented by UCCE East Bay Crop Production and Bay Area Urban Agriculture programs with the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District. Find more videos at: ucanr.edu/Cover...

A virtual site visit with Gary Pearson who shows his tools for terminating a cover crop at a school farm in Davis, California. This recording is part of the Cover Cropping Opportunities in Specialty Crops series of webinars and virtual site visits presented by UCCE East Bay Crop Production and Bay Area Urban Agriculture programs with the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District. Find more vi...

A virtual site visit with Scott Park of Park Farming Organics in the Sacramento Valley of California. Scott describes how cover cropping has an essential place in their production of processing tomatoes and corn, among other annual crops. This recording is part of the Cover Cropping Opportunities in Specialty Crops series of webinars and virtual site visits presented by UCCE East Bay Crop Produ...

A virtual site visit with Jim Leap, Farm Educator, at his home farm in the Pajaro Valley of Central Coast California. This recording is part of the Cover Cropping Opportunities in Specialty Crops series of webinars and virtual site visits presented by UCCE East Bay Crop Production and Bay Area Urban Agriculture programs with the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District. Find more videos at: ...

A virtual site visit with Ray Harts of Healthy Hearts Institute to see cover cropping practices on their urban farm in the East Bay. This recording is part of the Cover Cropping Opportunities in Specialty Crops series of webinars and virtual site visits presented by UCCE East Bay Crop Production and Bay Area Urban Agriculture programs with the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District. Find m...

A virtual site visit with Mitch Bloomfield of Bloomfield Vineyards in Brentwood, California. This recording is part of the Cover Cropping Opportunities in Specialty Crops series of webinars and virtual site visits presented by UCCE East Bay Crop Production and Bay Area Urban Agriculture programs with the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District. Find more videos at: ucanr.edu/CoverCropsCoCo

A virtual site visit with Chris Rishwain of J&R Ranches in Manteca, California. This recording is part of the Cover Cropping Opportunities in Specialty Crops series of webinars and virtual site visits presented by UCCE East Bay Crop Production and Bay Area Urban Agriculture programs with the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District. Find more videos at: ucanr.edu/CoverCropsCoCo

Ben Weise and Derek Emmons of the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District (RCD), with the Brenda Phrakonekham of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Contra Costa County, discuss federal, state, and private programs-such as California Healthy Soils and EQIP-that provide financial assistance to make farming practices with conservation benefits accessible to producers.

Clare Riesman is the Assistant Manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. She has been growing in and around the Central Coast for the last 10 years and has also taught sustainable growing in the Midwest. She discusses the benefits of cover crops in the garden and small farm system, considerations for se...

with Vivian Wauters postdoctoral scholar and Amélie Gaudin, Associate Professor of Agroecology at UC Davis, and with Katherine Jarvis-Shean, Orchard Systems Advisor for Sacramento, Solano and Yolo Counties. They bring together their extensive expertise to discuss the latest research and different applications of cover crops in orchards.

Glenn McGourty is Emeritus UC Cooperative Extension Viticulture Advisor with extensive experience with cover crops and is a co-author of UC ANR's Cover Cropping in Vineyards. He discusses the benefits and management of cover crops in vineyards, sharing his years of experience and research with vineyards in California.

Sarah Light, UCCE Agronomy Advisor for Sutter, Yuba, and Colusa counties, discusses the role of cover crops in building soil health and function and her research on the attributes of different cover crop types in annual systems. Her presentation and the Q&A discussion also cover many aspects of cover crop management. Sarah's research and extension program includes agronomic considerations for i...

Cover Cropping in Annual Systems featuring Dr. Margaret Lloyd

Cover Cropping on Small and Urban Farms featuring Kristyn Leach

Cover Crop Planning and Establishment in Small to Medium-Sized Row Crops, Orchards and Vineyards

Cover Cropping Opportunities opening webinar featuring Billy Synk of Seeds for Bees

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