- Author: Jeffrey P. Mitchell
August 21, 2022
Madera, CA long-time organic farmer and key farmer member of California's CIG reduced disturbance organic vegetable project, provided a recorded copy of the presentation that he gave at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Soil and Water Conservation Society in Denver, CO on August 2nd. The video can be viewed at the You Tube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfiaJYuu1WU&t=6s
Tom's video presentation goes into the history of the CIG effort and summarizes challenges that the group has faced.
- Author: Jeffrey P Mitchell
April 6, 2021
Four California organic farmers, Phil Foster of Hollister, Paul Muller of Guinda, Scott Park of Meridian, and Tom Willey of Madera, will participate in an hour-and-a half online workshop session on April 6, 2021 from 12:00 PM through 1:30 PM about the reduced disturbance work that they are conducting as part of an NRCS CIG project aimed at investigating and refining organic reduced disturbance techniques in California. The workshop will feature a Q & A session that follows a panel presentation that the four farmers made as part of the 2021 ECOFARM Conference in January. The workshop will be moderated by CASI Workgroup member, Dr. Cindy Daley of Chico State. An audio summary introduction to the workshop that ran on Don York's "Ag Report" radio program on KMJ580 on April 6th is linked below.
JEFF MITCHELL on KMJ 4-6-21
- Author: Jeffrey P Mitchell