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This winter we are continuing our work with Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) which has provided funding for us to purchase seed to plant cover crops in one of our orchards. Frog Hollow has long been a proponent of keeping…
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Farm Focus: Cover Crops
Posted in Blog Tagged with: bay area farm, california organic farm, cover crop, cover crops, farming, organic orchard, stewardship, sustainabilty
Farm Focus: Carbon Sequestration
Global warming is a hot topic, both literally and figuratively. It is complex and impacts each one of us. Though complex, most climate scientists agree that human activity has caused certain gases, such as carbon, to be released into our…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: Agriculture, atmosphere, CalCAN, California, carbon, carbon trading, chemicals, climate, Compost, cover crop, emissions, food system, gas, global warming, greenhouse, healthy, healthy soils initiative, legislators, Microbes, regulators, senators, sequestering, soil, tax
Farm Focus: A Note from Farmer Kristin
Here are Frog Hollow, we are very happy to be working with NRCS for a 4th year in a row, planting trees, shrubs and 50 total acres of conservation cover crop. NRCS stand for the National Resource Conservation Service, a…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: #nrcs, bat, bird houses, boxes, carbon, conservation, cover crop, dust, erosion, Gordon Frankie, longevity, National Resource Conservation Service, native wildflowers, nectar, owls, pollinator cover crop, seed, soil quality, Trees, UC Berkeley, wind break
Farm Focus: From Conventional to Organic
In February 2016, we started the process of converting 20 acres of land from conventional to organic. As many of you know, we recently purchased land and planted 20 acres of new peach trees. The new 20-acre plot has been…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: biodiversity, certified organic, conventional, cover crop, pesticide, restore, soil health, three years
