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  • Volunteers rate the landscape plants during the Fall Open House at the South Coast Research and Extension Center in August 2022. All photos by Saoimanu Sope.
    Your water-efficient landscape doesn’t have to be barren

    Jan 17, 2023

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
    • Yard & Garden
  • A mix of yellow mustard, black mustard and canola are grown between rows in an orchard. Photo by SAREP
    Growers invited to see benefits of cover crops in orchards, vineyards

    Jan 13, 2023

    • Agriculture
  • Through the Second Chance Youth Garden, young people in San Diego County provide food to their communities through a farm stand and CSA model. Photos by Diego Lynch
    Youth-run garden provides 10,000 pounds of produce for San Diego families

    Mar 10, 2022

    • Economic Development
    • Food
    • Yard & Garden
  • USDA’s most recent agricultural census, dating to 2017, counts approximately 25,000 producers of color among 128,535 total producers in California. Photo by Evett Kilmartin
    Farmers of color share their contributions, concerns in UC SAREP webinar series

    Nov 3, 2021

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • Lacy Phacelia cover crop in a vineyard. Photo by Lauren Hale
    Can California native plants be used as cover crops to benefit farmers and native ecosystems?

    Oct 21, 2021

    • Agriculture
  • Photo of raised bed vegetables by Elena Zhukova
    UC SAREP awards grants for sustainable food-systems research and outreach

    Apr 13, 2021

    • Agriculture
  • Bales of harvested cotton await their turn at the gin. (Photo: Jeff Mitchell)
    California farmers to share their soil health handiwork

    Feb 2, 2021

    • Agriculture
  • Lavender grower Carol Hamre spoke about her trials and successes regarding vertebrate pest control and drip irrigation.
    Small-scale growers meet virtually to discuss organic agriculture

    Jan 14, 2021

    • Food
  • Field of ripening intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium), known as Kernza, at The Land Institute's research farm in Salina, Kansas. (Photo: Lee R. DeHaan)
    UC ANR helps accelerate cultivation, marketing of the perennial grain Kernza

    Nov 5, 2020

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • New online training is designed for beginning farmers and those or transitioning to organic practices. Photo courtesy of UC SAREP
    Organic farming lessons offered online

    Sep 11, 2020

    • Agriculture
  • Elderberries are a new crop that SAREP academic coordinator Sonja Brodt has been studying to develop recommendations for best production practices.
    UC ANR expands role and reach of its sustainable agriculture program

    May 7, 2020

    • Agriculture
  • A new generation of ranchers is working to preserve California's rangelands.
    Change on the range

    Oct 30, 2018

    • Environment
  • Rachel Surls (Click image to download high-resolution version.)
    UCCE advisor Rachel Surls receives 2018 Bradford Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award

    Mar 20, 2018

    • Agriculture
    • Health
  • Elderberries are a rich source of vitamin C, and also contain vitamin B6 and iron.
    New project seeks to build on the benefits of elderberries

    Jan 22, 2018

    • Economic Development
    • Food
  • 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

  • Boxes of melons loaded into Capay Valley Farm Shop's truck, headed for buyers in the Bay Area.
    #Collabatition: A new network of food hubs looks past competition to help each other succeed

    Aug 10, 2017

  • A rainfall simulator sprays water over trays of different soils to show how on-farm management practices affect soil health.
    California Farm Demonstration Network forms to foster farmers’ innovation

    May 4, 2017

  • California grown plums can be sourced sustainably to help meet the goals of the UC Global Food Initiative.
    Sourcing sustainable food for students is a success

    Mar 6, 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

  • Steven Palomeres, former intern at WOW farms in West Oakland shares his experience in urban farming
    Youth speak, we listen: Youth voices in urban agriculture and building the UC connection

    Dec 13, 2016

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