agriculture

Flowing Downhill to Money

Photo: PGHolbrook How Corporate Growers Are Using Taxpayer Funds to Seize California’s Water The Central Valley Project — the sprawling…

1 year ago

B.C. drought: ‘If you’re using water you don’t need right now, it’s cutting into your food security’

Photo: Amid a B.C.-wide drought, two corn plants in an Abbotsford field struggle to survive. Farmers face crop loss, feed…

1 year ago

Strawberry fields forever? Production leaves long-term plastic pollution

Photo: polyethylene mulched strawberry fields, San Luis Obispo, CA. Credit: Seeta Sistla Researchers have found that the plastic mulch used…

1 year ago

Harvest Water Program Awarded $277.5 Million in Prop. 1 Funds

Multi-purpose Project Will Use Up to 50,000 Acre-feet of Recycled Water for Irrigation in South Sacramento County PRESS RELEASE Regional…

2 years ago

Sewage to sustenance: making reclaimed water ready for crops

A simple solution for cleaning out unhealthy chemicals Plant materials that would otherwise become trash may be the key to…

2 years ago