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As SGMA deadlines loom, groundwater sustainability agencies, environmental organizations, and farmers in the San Joaquin Valley are scrambling to prepare for a drier future by experimenting with ways to repurpose fallow farmland.
The resurrected Tulare Lake and thousands of acres of nearby flooded farmland are providing a temporary respite for the millions of migratory birds that pass through California along the Pacific Flyway every year.
Replacing pesticides with barn owls for rodent control was one of several innovations that marked a new appetite for more environmentally sustainable production in California vineyards.
Central Valley temperatures are expected to stick near 110 for the next three days, making life difficult for important crops.
Looking at the North Livermore Valley, it’s easy to forget that three of California’s largest cities lie less than an hour’s drive away. In late winter and early spring, the rural valley’s open pastures, cradled by rolling hills and dotted … Read more
Is commercial agriculture part of Point Reyes National Seashore’s essential character?
California, the top U.S. food-producing state, is ending use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental problems and impaired brain function in children.
An ecological history of a massive ranch for sale in the Bay Area.
Fish raised on farms generally eat their ground-up oceanic cousins. A farm in Susanville is trying to change that.
Climate change is upending agriculture and land use in California’s Central Valley
