October 2019. 🎃 🎃 🎃
Harvest Time 🎃 🎃 🎃
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Announcing: New IPM Advisor
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We are pleased to welcome
Cindy Kron
, PhD as our Area Wide IPM Advisor for Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino and Lake counties.
Cindy is a graduate of UC Davis, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Viticulture and Enology, minoring in Agricultural Pest Management, then went on to earn her Doctorate in Entomology.
“My experiences have motivated me to help growers, stakeholders, and the industry solve agricultural pest management problems through applied research by identifying IPM strategies and tactics that are economically feasible and implementable while having the lowest environmental impact.”
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Post-Fires Food Safety Workshop
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Join us at a free community workshop exploring Post-Fire Food Safety.
Learn how wildfire impacts the health and safety of locally grown produce and backyard chicken eggs from home, school, community gardens and local farms based on findings from two community science projects initiated directly after the October 2017 wildfires.
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Thursday, October 17, 6:00 to 8:00pm
Environmental Center of Sonoma County
55 Ridgeway Ave., Santa Rosa
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Hemp Breeding and Seed Production
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A two-day course designed to enhance the knowledge of professionals working on hemp improvement and propagation.
The course covers hemp seed production topics such as flowering, pollination, seed development, harvesting and certification. Course participants will also learn about hemp genomics, genetics, sex expression, types of cultivars with corresponding breeding schemes and intellectual property protection options.
The course will be delivered in an interactive format with lectures and discussions. The instructors include experts from the public and private sectors.
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Hopland REC Harvest Celebration
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Join the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center to celebrate research and education at this spectacular site.
A full day of celebration with h
ands on field experiences and a delicious farm to table luncheon with live music and auction.
Nov 3, 10am-3pm
Hopland REC
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Match.Graze
Reduce Fire Fuels
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In the wake of the devastating wildfires that have affected California, many municipalities have adopted stringent weed abatement & fire code enforcement policies. This has led to a demand for cost-effective, practical vegetation management services such as contract grazing.
UCCE Sonoma/Marin is developing Match.Graze a list to connect landowners to contract grazers across CA. We currently collecting information’s from contract grazers & landowners in CA.
⬅️⬅️Two surveys: one for
contract grazers and one for those
looking for grazers to munch down those fire fuels.
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Events & Workshops by our Partners:
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Specialty Crops Block Grant Webinar
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Workshops will feature an overview of the program, a review of the concept proposal questions, a live demonstration of the online application system, and more. All prospective SCBGP applicants are encouraged to participate.
There is no cost to attend the workshops or webinars; however, space is limited and CDFA requests that attendees register in advance.
To register, email
grants@cdfa.ca.gov
with your name and contact information, the workshop/webinar you would like to attend.
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October 2, 9:30-11:30am
Webinar
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Seven Habits for Effective Farmers Webinars
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10/2
Farm Safety and Stress Management
11/6
Succession Planning
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The Forest Working Group invites you to a day of learning with the Good Fire Alliance. This alliance of private landowners, NGOs, land trusts and parks work to restore their forests' health and resilience to wildfires primarily by putting "good fire," or prescribed fire, on the land.
Who should attend: The Forest Working Group's members, any forest landowner and interested public
What will we do: Take a tour of two cooperatively burned private woodlands (spring 2018 and summer 2019), see a forest thinning project, and discuss how new members can participate in the Good Fire Alliance.
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October 5th, 2019
10:00 am-2:00 pm
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Farming Practices including olive characteristics, orchard maintenance, material inputs, irrigation, pruning, olive fly control and harvest activities.
Oct 5, 9am - Olivino Olive Mill, Hopland
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Weekend Along the Farm Trails
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Sonoma County farmers will open their gates and barn doors to offer a behind-the-scenes peek at life on the farm this fall. Guests must register to receive the list of participating farms.
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CCRC/SRM Range Management Fall Meeting
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This joint meeting of the CCRC and SRM will focus on ranch diversification, which promote sustainable working rangelands. We will hear from ranchers and landowners who have reconfigured their ranches to generate additional income by diversifying the use of their resources.
We will hear from land managers who have worked with ranchers to diversify enterprises that promote land management goals and rancher sustainability. We will learn how they identified opportunities for new enterprises and worked through resource and regulatory issues.
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4th annual event; tickets include coffee and breakfast snacks, a full catered lunch, beer tastings, cheese pairings, all-day access to education, and an afternoon tour of a new local hop yard with hands-on sessions in the field.
Topics include:
- Small scale commercial operations
- legal organization, accounting
- zoning
- Wolf harvester
- connections with suppliers and brewers
- Incorporating fresh hops in brews
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December 8-9, SRJC Shone Farm
Come learn the latest in appropriately-scaled Ag Tech, interact with innovators and start working smarter, not harder.
Inviting creative innovators! engineers, farmers, startups, students, tinkerers in garages--to develop a new innovation that can help smaller-scale farms compete, survive and thrive.
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California Small Farm Conference
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Save the Date for the 32nd annual!
February 27-29, 2020
in San Luis Obispo
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Need to sell, trade, donate or buy something for your operation?
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