Earth Day is a time to celebrate farmers and policymakers working to improve the health of California’s agricultural lands and increase the state’s resilience to drought in the face of climate change. Toluma Farms and Tomales Farmstead Creamery is doing just that, in collaboration with nature, the farm’s working goats, and California’s Healthy Soils Program.
“Concern about the climate was our first and foremost motivation for applying for the grant,” says Tamara Hicks of Toluma Farms. They are among a number of Foodwise farmers, including Alexandre Family Farms, McGinnis Ranch, Oya Organics, and Sierra Cascade Blueberry Farm, who have used Healthy Soils Program (HSP) grants to adopt conservation management that sequesters carbon on their farms.