Acre Farming Water Rights 
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Well, it is efficient around water, but that’s the only thing it’s efficient on.”
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
My wife was the Utah ‘Farm Mom of the Year.’ The Arid West (Illustration by Nhatt Nichols) The ‘Soft Path’ of Water for Farmers in the Western US Colorado’s Groundwater Experiment Utah Tries a New Water Strategy In Corinne, Utah, where his family has farmed for 125 years, Ferry, who is 46, raises cows, corn, and alfalfa.
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Civil Eats
OCTOBER 28, 2024
When Peter Gleick moved to California in the 1970s, the state had more than a million acres of cotton in production and little control over the use of its rapidly depleting groundwater. For Gleick, an author and cofounder of the water-focused Pacific Institute , these are signs that change can happen. It’s easy to grow.
The Equation
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
My partner in our farm, Robbie Jaffe, and I have been very involved in trying to speak for the Cuyama Valley community, defending the science of groundwater depletion and our personal experience as farmers and community-members. Our farm is our personal example of how to do agroecology.
Caff
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Every year, our community recognizes amazing farms, individuals and local businesses making a difference in our food system. Join us for the awards ceremony on Feb 28 as part of this year’s California Small Farm Conference. Janet ran the farm for 24 years until her recent retirement. Learn more here.
Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” This has led land-strapped farmers to either drop out of farming or become tenant farmers, operating farms on rented land.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
On a cold January morning, Wivholm drives the dirt roads between farms in Sheridan County, where he’s lived for all his 63 years, with practiced ease, pointing out different plots of land by who owns them. Not great for dry-land farming. Currently, the district is using about 10,000 acre feet.
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