Please join us for a weekly lunchtime seminar series. Each week we’ll be joined by a guest speaker for a 30-minute presentation followed by questions from the listeners and more general discussion.
This workshop will be held online via Zoom. The Zoom link will be the same each week.
The featured presentations this year are:
January 13: Preventative Organic Pest Management by Gina Colfer, Sustainable Solutions Agronomy Manager for Organics at Wilbur- Ellis
January 20: Nuts and Bolts of Irrigation by Charlie Abee, Professor of Agriculture Technology and Irrigation, College of the Sequoias
January 27: Agritourism by Rachael Callahan, Statewide Agritourism Coordinator, UC ANR
February 3: Getting your Seedling Mix Right by Christof Bernau, Farm Garden Manager, UC Santa Cruz
February 10: Fertigation Best Management Practices in Organic Production Systems by Joji Muramoto, Cooperative Extension Specialist: Organic Agriculture, UC Santa Cruz
February 17: Soil’s Outsized Role in Earth’s Age-Old Carbon Trading Scheme by Tom Willey, T&D Willey Farms and host of the radio show "Down on the Farm"
February 24: Soil Health Tests: What Do They Really Tell You? by Lindsey Klein, UCCE Small & Organic Farms, Community Education Specialist
March 3: Dry Farmed Tomato Production by Yvonne Socolar UC Berkeley
March 10: Organic Management of Field Rodents - Gophers, Voles, Moles by Dr. Roger Baldwin, Cooperative Extension Specialist: Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution, UC Davis
March 17: Integrating Rotational Grazing into Organic Production Systems by Amélie Gaudin, Professor and Endowed Chair in Agroecology, UC Davis