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  • California Healthy Soils Week highlights the benefits of soil health and biodiversity. Photo by Larry Costello
    Celebrate Healthy Soils Week with free events Dec. 5-9

    Dec 2, 2022

    • Environment
  • Production consultant Cary Crum, on right, advises agronomists at Bowles Farming in Los Banos on soil health management practices including using cover crops and reduced disturbance tillage for cotton.
    Soil health in California cotton fields explored in video series

    Mar 10, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Natural Resources
  • 'It is generally best to work with the soil you have, rather than try to attain the soil you wish for,' according to Dustin Blakey, author of new publication on adjusting soil pH. (Photo: Evett Kilmartin)
    Adjusting soil pH in California gardens

    Apr 20, 2021

    • Yard & Garden
  • Chickens perch and graze inside the tractor on a UC Davis research plot.
    Scientists to see whether chickens boost soil health, increase profits on organic vegetable farms

    Apr 16, 2021

    • Agriculture
  • Designate permanent walking paths so garden beds are not compacted by foot traffic.
    Home gardening is more pleasant and successful with healthy soil

    Dec 4, 2020

    • Yard & Garden
  • An area near Shaver Lake where the 2020 Creek Fire burned most of the living vegetation and old tree stumps. (Photo: Jeannette Warnert)
    Wildfires are devastating to the soil

    Nov 9, 2020

    • Environment
  • Cultivating cotton using regenerative methods can sequester carbon in the soil, keeping it from the atmosphere where it can contribute to climate change. (Photo: Pixabay)
    Consumers are driving a move to more sustainable cotton farming in California

    Sep 25, 2020

    • Agriculture
  • A screen shot from an episode of Soil Health Connection on YouTube. Sarah Light, upper left, and Liz Harper interview Tom Johnson, an agronomist at Kamprath Seed.
    UC Cooperative Extension and Colusa RCD launch 'Soil Health Connection'

    Sep 3, 2020

    • Agriculture
  • CDFA will provide funding for six UC Cooperative Extension projects that will demonstrate soil health practices on California farms and ranches.
    UC Cooperative Extension to investigate healthy soil practices with CDFA grants

    Aug 31, 2020

    • Agriculture
    • Natural Resources
  • Yvonne Savio, UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardener
    Build the soil for successful gardening

    May 7, 2019

    • Yard & Garden
  • Calrecycle took legislators and stakeholders on a tour of the Recology compost facility in Dixon.
    California touts benefits of healthy soils in week-long celebration

    Dec 11, 2017

  • PhD student Daniel Rath teaches principles of soil aggregates at Russell Ranch's recent Soil Health Workshop
    Powers of microbes: UC Davis graduate students get creative to teach farmers about soil microbiology

    Aug 23, 2017

  • An overflow crowd at the UC West Side Research and Extension Center learns about the benefits of farming practices that promote healthy soil.
    Better soil boosts farm profit and benefits the planet

    Jun 12, 2017

  • Boots on the ground where a former almond orchard stood. The shredded trees will be incorporated into the soil to build soil organic matter.
    California governor sets aside funds to promote soil health

    Jan 13, 2017

  • Ph.D. candidate Deirdre Griffin at a research plot at the Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility
    In a new study biochar helps yields, but only in the short term

    Jan 11, 2017

  • Healthy soil practices are evident in the soil on right compared to standard soil on left.
    State funding may help farmers overcome challenges to improved soil practices

    Dec 13, 2016

  • Farmers and industry professionals gather at a UC Cooperative Extension field day at the Tellarico Farm in Manteca, Calif.
    Planet-friendly orchard recycling makes money sense

    Oct 20, 2016

  • Amélie Gaudin, assistant professor of agroecology at UC Davis.
    Agroecology, internationally and at home

    Apr 6, 2016

  • Desert Research and Extension Center is one of the field research sites.
    UC studies soil to understand drought

    Dec 8, 2015

  • Britta Hansen and Elise Brockett plant okra and other vegetables at the Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center, in advance of its grand opening on World Food Day.
    How will you celebrate World Food Day?

    Oct 13, 2015

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