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Lopes Family Farm Field Day: Integrated rice and duck farming

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On June 29th, Lopes Family Farms hosted a field day with Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) in Princeton, CA focused on rice and duck farming, a Biologically Integrated Farming System (BIFS). Claire Tauber from CAFF’s Farm to Market team, Miguel Alvarez and Hanna Kahl from CAFF’s Ecological Farming team.

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From Civil Rights to Food Justice, Jim Embry Reflects on a Life of Creative Resistance

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SCN works with nonprofits and schools in the region to integrate farming and food production into their work and advocates for local policy that supports school gardens, urban farms, and community gardens and helps get fresh produce to food insecure residents.

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BIFS Field Day: Cover Cropping and Livestock Grazing for Regenerative Viticulture

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We’re starting a pilot vineyard that is going to focus on stacking all those principles on 20 acres of a regenerative vineyard, with the goal to have that grow. Kendra continued to expound on Project Terra: “I mean, we’ve tried cover crops since 1993 and we’re still doing it, which blows my mind.