Farming

The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Thursday, May 15, 2025.

The senator is serving on the Committee of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. He's been touring the state to hear agricultural concerns across California.

Host Jennifer Jewell had the great joy of visiting Wild Dreams Farm & Seed this past summer and is so pleased to welcome Jen Williams to Cultivating Place this week on the seasonal harvest-to-winter transition, life-and-death-and-life-again-cycle celebration day of All Hallows Eve/Samhain.

Farmers in California are trying to plant crops that don’t require a lot of water. Some are turning to growing agave as a response to a warming state.

A new report says California will have a smaller almond crop this year. Also, dozens of bills are in limbo, and California is experimenting with guaranteed income pilot programs.

This week we continue our celebration of Black History Month, and love stories, centered on the cooperative, and communal concept of Ujaama, in conversation with Bonnetta Adeeb of Ujaama Seeds, and the Ujaama Cooperative Farming Alliance, and Nathan Kleinman of the Experimental Farm network, a member and collaborator in the Ujaam alliance and all that it is growing – which is both uplifting and delicious.

Main COVID-19 testing lab in California to close. Also, a winter storm warning will continue in the northern Sierra and southern Cascades through Friday, and a new bill would reimburse farmers for illegal dumping on their land.

COVID-19 cases are declining, but local officials warn rates are still high. Also, Safe Space’s operations manager Rick Narad weighs in on current needs of Chico’s unhoused residents, and many farmers won’t receive water deliveries from the federal government.

In honor of the losses, griefs, revisions, and transformations in our world this last year, and in honor of the hopes we all hold in our gardens and our…

When smoke filled the Central Valley sky in late summer and early fall this year, farmworkers were still harvesting in the fields.California requires…