Open Source Ag Workshops or mentoring - gardeners, small farms, sellers, and conservationists. View our photo album previous next Growing, sharing, and celebrating food. Regenerative Ag Workshops Volunteer? Workshops, planting, picking, and community. Scroll down to review our 2025 Workshops schedule. Specialty Crops Value-adds to enhance soil, profitability, and healthy living. Irrigation Deep Dive, Spring Planting Prep, and more. Elationscapes work album October 5, 2025 previous next Regenerative Ag Workshops Build Plan Soil, pests, water, and regenerative practices. Explore our Cobb Hut three workshop series. Fall Harvest Celebration Terracing Combining seeds, plugs, and plants. Assessing cost, labor, production, and regenerative ag methods. Managing composting and vermiculture. apprenticeships previous next Permaculture experiments and examples Experimenting Exploring Low till, No till Managing soil challenges and opportunities. Specialty crops like artichokes, asparagus, and jujube for markets and soil enhancement. Terracing Supporting Pollinators Grant Strategy and Writing Terracing Grant Strategy and Writing

CA Specialty Crops

Collaboration

Specialty Crop Regenerative Ag 2025 hands-on and online workshop example:

  • Zones, soil, amendments
  • Specialty crops, costs, markets, trends
  • Prepping, sowing, planting, pruning, harvesting
  • Irrigation, energy, pests, rodents
  • Companion planting, layering, succession, rotation
  • Cover crops, winter and spring preparation
  • Selling- CSA, farmer’s markets, restaurants
  • Costing and creating additional products: canning, cooking, etc.

Action Items

  • Meet with local restaurants, markets, and farmer’s markets to develop specialty crop revenue opportunities.
  • Online synchronous workshops. Transition onsite workshop content to online. Add additional content to extend work beyond onsite workshops.
  • Provide mentorship and/or support to farmers and apprentices regarding specialty crops and regenerative agriculture.
  • Provide demonstration farm space.
  • Monthly community meetings.