Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis

12/09/2019

Nominations are welcome for UC Farm Advisors and Cooperative Extension Specialists as well as UC Davis graduate students, faculty members, and in special cases, alumni, for their work toward agricultural sustainability.

Award recipients will receive a cash prize and may be invited to give a lecture sponsored by the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis which manages the award and selection process.

The Bradford Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award Charlie Rominger & Eric BradfordEstablished in 2008 through gifts from family and friends, the Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award seeks to prov

12/03/2019

It's not too late! Donate to UC SAREP today to support our work. Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program - SAREP is committed to creating a food and system in California. ucanr.edu/GivingTuesday

Go to asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/ucsarep to learn more about the great work SAREP is doing for our communities.

Join us on Tuesday, December 3 for , a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals to celebrate generosity worldwide.  is held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) Kick off the holiday season with us!

12/02/2019

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday! Starting at 12:01am on December 3 your gifts to the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program - SAREP will be MATCHED!! UC Agriculture & Natural Resources has a match pool of $15,000 so get your gifts in early to double the impact! ucanr.edu/GivingTuesday

Join us on Tuesday, December 3 for , a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals to celebrate generosity worldwide.  is held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) Kick off the holiday season with us!

11/26/2019

Ten faculty members have been elected as fellows of the AAAS - The American Association for the Advancement of Science, among them our very own director, Tom Tomich! Check out this link to learn more. We're so proud!

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Ten faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the association announced today (Nov. 26). They are among 443 new fellows elected this year, honored for their efforts to advance science or its applications. The new fellows will be formally...

11/26/2019

The California Aggie covered last week, highlighting the Century Experiment as the Ranch's hallmark program. To read more, check out this link!

Written by: Alma Meckler-Pacheco, The California Aggie, November 15 Agriculture research at UC Davis aims to better understand what is occurring in the ground. For researchers at the Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility, located only 15 minutes from the UC Davis main campus, there is no be...

09/18/2019

Growers, farmers! Join us for a fun and informative workshop.

Healthy Soils Workshop: Using Compost in Tomato Systems

Thursday, October 10 9:00AM-12:30PM
Muller Ranch, County Road 95 and County Road 18A

Workshop will cover:

1) how to choose the right kind of compost for your operation,

2) how to set up a compost spreader,

3) how to calibrate a compost spreader to ensure you are applying the rate you intend,

4) tomato yield and soil health outcomes of compost incorporation.

-BBQ LUNCH! Sponsored by Westside Spreading Inc. and Republic Services

Space is limited, REGISTER TODAY

"Come for the compost spreading demo, stay for the BBQ lunch!"

Muller Ranch

https://asi.ucdavis.edu/events/rr/healthy-soils-workshop

08/23/2019

ASI's Food and Society Coordinator/ Deputy Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program - SAREP, Gail Feenstra, recently delivered the keynote at this year's "Increasing the Capacity for Place-based Food Systems Conference.

“Our place-based food systems operate in conjunction with—sometimes separately, some­times integrated with—an industrial food system that may not always embody the same values. This more industrial food system emphasizes efficiency, profit, and power in ways that are more narrowly construed, sometimes at the expense of other envi­ronmental and social values. This apparent tension with place-based food systems leads to many of the challenges that follow.”

Read Dr. Feenstra's adapted remarks from her keynote address at the Place-Based Food Systems Conference in August 2019 by clicking below.

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program - SAREP



https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/722

08/14/2019

Have you heard?

“This work coming out of Russell Ranch at UC Davis is very timely as the state invests in programs to sequester carbon in soils,” said Secretary Karen Ross of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. “Carbon sequestration in soils through the addition of compost is a key practice in our Healthy Soils Program and we are delighted that the science and policy efforts are aligning and supporting each other.”

Click the link to learn more about the work being done at Russell Ranch and go to asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/rr to stay up to date!



College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, UC Davis

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/compost-key-sequestering-carbon-soil

By moving beyond the surface level and literally digging deep, scientists at the University of California, Davis, found that compost is a key to storing carbon in semi-arid cropland soils, a strategy for offsetting CO2 emissions. For their 19-year study, published in the journal Global Change Biolog...

08/01/2019

If you purchase or are interested in purchasing raw elderberry ingredients, we invite you to complete a survey!

UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SAREP) is conducting research into the market potential for elderberry/elderflowers grown in California. We are investigating the viability for California farmers to sell elderberries as a commercial crop, and exploring the market potential for bringing some of the out-of-state production home.

https://ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d1gEOiVHAAHx2Sh


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