Tag Archives: Soil Health

Grizzly Gratitude Week: Celebrating Elliot Grant

April 7, 2021

This week, we’re celebrating our GrizzlyCorps fellow Elliot Grant for his great contributions to our soil health research at Sustainable Conservation. Elliot joined us to research soil health practices that might benefit water resources in the San Joaquin Valley and on the Central Coast, and he’s doing a fantastic job! Read on for a bit…

Get More from Less with Conservation Tillage

January 30, 2014

Pictured Above: Strip tillage in progress using newly purchased implements on a field in Hilmar, CA. Learn more about Sustainable Conservation’s current work to scale healthy soils practices in California! What is Conservation Tillage? Conservation tillage, also known as strip-till, is a method of low-impact farming that leaves crop stubble on the surface of the…