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Regenerative Grazing at Santa Lucia Conservancy

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

9:00 am – 4:00 pm (Includes an organic lunch)

Farms and ranches are more than places where food and fiber come from! Plants, animals and microbes all contribute to the farm ecosystem. Join the staff of the Santa Lucia Conservancy along with researchers and practitioners from across California to explore how management decisions can create healthy habitats for more than just production. We’ll begin with coffee and a discussion of principles, then continue in the field. Along the way we’ll wade through nature’s incredible complexity to choose the metrics that help us steer management towards healthy, functional landscapes. Lunch provided.

Cost: $130 | Location: Santa Lucia Conservancy

EcoFarm Bus Tour 2025

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

8am -6pm

California’s Inland areas of Aromas, Gilroy, and Morgan Hill enjoy hot summers and wet winters, fostering a wide range of crops suited to the climate and fertile soils. This annual EcoFarm bus tour is a unique experience to learn from farms leading innovative operations. Join us on this full-day tour to experience and understand organic agriculture in the region. You’ll visit Spade & Plow, 3 Feathers Farm, and Blossoms Farm (a biodynamic farm).

$135 -Includes lunch, The tour will begin and end at Asilomar.

Advancing Agroecology, Organic, and Sustainable Agriculture Education in California Universities and Colleges

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

9-4 pm

Asilomar Conference Grounds

$99 (lunch included)

A number of significant initiatives and programs are now running on campuses across California that center both educational equity and ecology in farming and food systems. This is a long row to hoe. The next generation of leaders have their own voices and visions. Educators are facing how to best support and facilitate their success. The day-long workshop is designed for sharing lessons learned, best practices, and visions for the future. This is an opportunity to come together and learn from each other, as students, staff, faculty, and administrators, as we work to create more equity and ecology in California agriculture and education. Speakers and participants will include students, staff, faculty and administrators from the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges. Participants will also include partner agencies and non-profits. The program will be facilitated by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology.

Practical Whole Farm Solutions for Pest Management Practitioners and Growers

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

8-5 pm

Asilomar Conference Grounds

$99 (lunch included)

A unique opportunity to learn a whole systems approach to pest management, this preconference addresses both soil health and habitat diversity on the farm. The target audience is PCAs, CCAs and growers of California agriculture. It covers techniques on how to reduce the use of pesticides and come into compliance with California’s pesticide reduction strategy. Learn more about the sessions included in this pre-conference event below.

DPR and CCA continuing education credits will be applied for.