First Rain Farm Occultation Research - SARE Grant Management System

OW19-345 (project overview)

Project Type: Professional + Producer

Funds awarded in 2019: $49,994.00

Projected End Date: 05/30/2020

Host Institution Award ID: G220-19-W7502

Grant Recipients: Community Alliance with Family Farmers; UC Davis Russell Ranch Sustainable Ag Research Facility

Region: Western

State: California

Principal Investigator:

Dave Runsten

Community Alliance with Family Farmers

Co-Investigators:

Kali Feiereisel

Community Alliance With Family Farmers

Description:

This is a podcast episode on CAFF's podcast "The Farmers Beet." During this episode we travel to First Rain Farm outside of Nevada City, CA. We learn from Tim about their diverse farm and partnership with CAFF to complete an on-farm research trial during the 2019 growing season on a practice called occultation. Occultation is the use of tarps to minimize weeds in an organic system.

Type:

Multimedia

File:

Download file (MP3)

Authors:

Tim Van Wagner, First Rain Farm
Emily Buerer, Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Kali Feiereisel, Community Alliance with Family Farmers

Target audience:

Farmers/Ranchers

URL:

https://www.caff.org/first-rain-farm-podcast-episode/

Ordering info:

Sara Tiffany
sara@caff.org
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
PO Box 363
Davis, CA 95616
https://www.caff.org
Publication/product ID: The Farmer's Beet podcast: Episode 1, Season 2

This product is associated with the project "Effects of Occultation on Weed Pressure, Labor Costs, Product Quality, and Yield in Sustainable Vegetable Production in Northern California"

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or SARE.