In today's episode NCAT staffer Rex Dufour interviews organic walnut farmer and processor, Russ Lester, at Dixon Ridge Farms in Winters, California. Russ shares some very practical thoughts about why he uses cover crops and explains how multi-functional cover crops are to his orchards.
Rex Dufour has been a sustainable agriculture specialist with NCAT/ATTRA since 1994, and opened NCAT's Western Regional Office in California in 2001.
For more information on this topic, you can contact Rex Dufour directly at rexd@ncat.org.
ATTRA Resources:
Managing Soils for Water: How Five Principles of Soil Health Support Water Infiltration and Storage
Tipsheet: Assessing the Soil Resource for Beginning Organic Farmers
Managing Soil and Irrigation for Drought Webinar
Other Resources
Dixon Ridge Farms website
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