BIOS (Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems) The BIOS program is based on high quality training in best management practices, coupled with consistent public outreach. The BIOS program emphasizes a “whole system” approach to orchard management, where each component practice is understood to affect the outcomes of all other practices. The essential elements of this approach are organizing project management teams of local experts, producing field days, farm visits and field monitoring of pest and beneficial organisms.
Watershed Stewardship Project The Watershed Stewardship Project provided rural landowners in Solano and Merced counties with information and contacts for improving their management of natural resources. Healthy watersheds are important for every member of our communities.
CSA-West CAFF founded the CSA-West Project in 1994 and was instrumental in bringing this unique community farming & marketing model to California. Find a CSA near you on our Local Food Guide.
National Organic Directory From 1983 to 2001, CAFF published the most complete guide to organic industry, allowing vendors and farmers in the fledgling organic foods industry to find each other and aiding greatly in the development of the organic foods market.
Almond Pest Management Alliance
The Almond Pest Management Alliance II is a cooperative effort among industry stakeholders including the Almond Board of California, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, UC Statewide IPM Program, UC Cooperative Extension, pest control advisors and growers, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and U.S. EPA Region 9. Coordinated by CAFF, this project works with growers in distinct almond growing regions to establish demonstration orchards that showcase locally effective Best Management Practices to control pests using the latest research and pest control materials. PMA II will build on the success of the first Almond PMA to increase the adoption statewide of reduced risk practices that can be successfully and economically applied to almond production.
Almond PMA Newsletter Spring 2009
Almond PMA Newsletter Winter 2009
Almond PMA Newsletter Fall 2008
Tree Crops
The Environmentally Responsible Management Practices for Tree Crops in the Feather River Basin program focuses on outreach and demonstration to reduce organophosphate pollution in the Lower Feather River and Sutter Bypass, as well as developing and increasing the adoption of sound production practices that improve environmental impacts of orchards in the Southern Sacramento Valley.
Project partners include UC Cooperative Extension, UC Integrated Pest Management Program, UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, and the San Francisco Estuary Institute. This project has received support through a grant from the California State Water Resources Control Board with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Non-point Source Pollution Control Program (Clean Water Act Section 319).