California Climate & Agriculture Network
Published December 2020 – California’s Healthy Soils Program (HSP) has the potential to transform California agriculture by incentivizing farmers and ranchers to transition to agricultural management practices that have a multitude of benefits to farms and society. Healthy soils practices improve
The National Healthy Soils Policy Network, founded and led by CalCAN, is a group of 24 farmer-centered organizations around the country mobilizing farmer voices in support of healthy soils state policy. CalCAN distributed 25 mini-grants in the past two years
The National Healthy Soils Policy Network is composed of organizations that advocate for state-level healthy soils policies with farmers and ranchers at the center. Since CalCAN originally convened this group in 2018, we’ve grown significantly, in both scope and representation
Today—the second day of California Healthy Soils Week—CalCAN is excited to release a progress report on the first three years of California’s groundbreaking Healthy Soils Program (HSP). Download the report with this link. (Webinar recording here if you weren’t able
Investing in soil health building practices and other agricultural solutions to climate change are vital economic stimulus strategies. California’s Climate Smart Agriculture programs invest in rural economies, create jobs and ultimately support growers’ bottom lines by bolstering farm resilience. The
Almost $3 million was recently awarded to 20 Healthy Soils demonstration projects by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), completing the program’s largest grant round since it started in 2017. Teams of farmers and ranchers, researchers and technical
This post was written by Jane Sooby at CCOF, a CalCAN Coalition member. Numerous scientific studies show that organic farming improves soil health and builds soil organic matter, which sequesters carbon in the soil and helps mitigate climate change. This
California’s cap-and-trade auction revenues are down considerably, which produced only $25 million in May for the state’s climate programs. That’s well below typical, quarterly auction results, which range between $600 million to $800 million.The trouble for California is two-fold: the
Sacramento — Today, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced its selection of over 300 of the state’s farms and ranches to receive Healthy Soils Program incentive grants totaling approximately $22 million. The project awards announced today will
California’s Healthy Soils Program (HSP) current grant cycle is open until June 26, 2020 – or until funding available runs out, which may be sooner than expected. As of April 20, 2020: Over 300 incentive applications have already been submitted; if they
