As part of its effort to become climate neutral by 2050, the EU's Green Deal calls for 25 percent of Europe's agriculture to be transitioned to organic (nearly triple the current area) by 2030.

Measuring and assessing soil health are critical for understanding how changes in agronomic management practices affect the capability of soil to support cropping systems.

What potato varieties do well dry-farmed in the maritime Pacific Northwest? This is our second year exploring this with potato breeder, Chris Homanics, and trialing 10 potato varieties with eight growers in the Dry Farming Collaborative (sponsored by The Dry Farming Institute). We will visit several of our 2020 potato variety trial sites, including a … Continued

Overview It is important to note that dry farming is not a new way of farming, but knowledge sharing has been limited because practices have primarily been passed down from farmer to farmer. Compounded by the fact that there is only a very small subset of farmers that experiment with dry farming and an even … Continued

Join Jessa Kay-Cruz, Senior Pollinator Ecologist for the Xerces Society and NRCS Partner Biologist as she reviews the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) conservation practice standards that can be adapted to support the conservation of monarch butterflies and other pollinators.

What tomatoes are resilient to dry farming in the Willamette Valley’s dry hot summers? Early Girl is the standard (and the variety most grown in coastal California), but we would like to find more types, flavors and colors. This year we are evaluating 200 varieties, including scion/rootstock combinations (grafted tomatoes). In this field day we … Continued

Join this webinar to learn about general organic management practices in high tunnel systems. Participants will learn the differences between open field and high tunnel production and then receive an overview of general management practices include nutrients, weeds, insect pests and irrigation as well as different high tunnel structures. This is the first webinar in … Continued