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BIOS Field Day at Chinchiolo Farms

Caff

Emily Ayala and Hanna Kahl introduce CAFF and the Ecological Pest Management Program. Emily Ayala, CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program Manager, kicked off the event by introducing CAFF and highlighting CAFF’s many different program areas. The attendees then got to observe the mower in action as James mowed down a cover crop strip.

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Talking Integrated Pest Management at Blossom Farms

Caff

Hanna Kahl, CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management Specialist, kicked off the event by introducing CAFF and the BIOS project, which began in the 1990s and involved some growers in the same neck of the woods as Blossom Farms. Randy also owns his own seed drillers, and plants cover crops on other farms in the area.

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Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

CSP pays producers to improve, maintain, and actively manage conservation activities already in place at the time of application and to adopt new conservation activities during the life of the five-year contract.