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Join us for a DIY worm bin construction workshop. Bring your favorite container, and well provide the rest. (Worms not included, but available for purchase from our worm farm) We are also offering a Hot Pile Build Demonstration if you have a small to medium-scale amount of yard waste.

Learn about the benefits of growing summer cover crops for managing soil health, nitrogen, and pest/disease in cropping systems.

Dont let analysis paralysis stop you from achieving your new climate appropriate beautiful garden. Join the UC Master Gardeners of Napa County on a step-by-step journey from weedy labor-intensive lawn to a succulent and perennial garden with a rainbow of year-round color.

The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) will meet to discuss substances petitioned for addition to or deletion from the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (National List), substances due to sunset from the National List in 2026, and recommendations on organic policies.

Equipment planning and priorities for transitioning farmers - OATS Organic Advisor Call Series 10AM - 11AM PT When conventional grain farmers begin the transition to organic, they often find new challenges that require different equipment (especially true for weed management and on split operations)...

Join us for the UCCE Pear Branch Canker and Dieback Field Day in HOPLAND, CA. The event will focus on essential knowledge and practices for the management of branch dieback disease fungi in California Pear Orchards. Presentations will be given by experts from the University of California, UC Davis.

Are weeds friend or foe? Discover how growers employ various strategies, from weed eradication to utilizing them for biodiversity and enhancing soil health. Share your own weed management techniques and learn from other attendees.

Rice Pest Management Workshop...

The purpose of the Rice Field Day is to give rice growers and others an opportunity to observes and discuss research in progress at RES. Rice Field Day is sponsored by the California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation (CCRRF) and the University of California (UC).

Join eOrganic and the Organic Farming Research Foundation for a webinar on June 26, 2024: Developing Organic Crop Budgets for Producers Moving to Organic Production, presented by Dr. Gregg Ibendahl of Kansas State University.