Source: ECO FARM | September 25, 2012
This video is a part of the water stewardship video series produced by the Ecological Farming Association. This video features Reiter Berry Farms in Watsonville, California. Farm Manager Frank Estrada discusses the farm’s precision irrigation practices which they have pioneered …
Source: ECO FARM
Source: VCSTAR.COM | July 13, 2012
Where do you get your food? What’s your idea of an ideal healthy food system?
These are just a couple of questions posed at forums recently held at three locations in Oxnard. The forums are part of the Oxnard Community …
Source: VCSTAR.COM
Source: Pacific Institute | November 27, 2011
Dan Balbas is a berry grower for Reiter Farms, producing berries that are marketed under the Driscoll’s label. Over the last decades, groundwater pumping has exacerbated seawater intrusion into the area’s freshwater aquifers, which threatens agricultural production. Balbas discusses what …
Source: Pacific Institute
Source: VCSTAR.COM | March 25, 2010
In a pearl snap button shirt, cowboy boots, and tan Wrangler cords topped by a big brass belt buckle, Juan Becerra looks every bit the farmhand.
That’s what makes the yoga he’s doing seem so odd.
Under his thick black …
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Source: vcstar.com | August 14, 2009
Critics fear physicians will become beholden to employer
As a variation on the company doctor emerges at big companies across the country that are sponsoring on-site medical centers to provide employees with free or low-cost healthcare, an Oxnard berry grower …
Source: vcstar.com