Super Tuber Farm Occultation Research

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 Farmer's Beet." During this episode we travel to Super Tuber Farm near Grass Valley, CA. We learn from Jeremy about their farm focused on tuber crops and partnership they had 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:
Authors:
Emily Buerer, Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Jeremy Mineau, Super Tuber Farm
Target audience:
Farmers/Ranchers
Ordering info:
Sara Tiffany
sara@caff.org
Communtiy Alliance with Family Farmers
PO Box 363
Davis, CA 95616
http://www.caff.org
Publication/product ID: The Farmer's Beet Podcast, episode 2, season 2
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.