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

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Going into harvest, usually we lay down an herbicide to keep the vineyard clean through the harvest time-period. This Healthy Soils Week event, sponsored by CDFA OPCA’s Biologically Integrated Farming Systems (BIFS) Grant, highlighted the collaborative nature of sustainable food and farming.

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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. Get engaged in your community.

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