Flagstaff has been leasing farmable land in its Urban Farm Incubator program since 2018. Now that program is expanding, with the goal of promoting sustainable farm practices in an urban setting.For $500 a year, Flagstaff plans to license out three acres of the city-owned McAllister Ranch to an organization or partnership with at least one year of growing experience in the
Permaculture, a portmanteau of the words permanent and agriculture, is a design system that looks to natural ecology for guidance in designing other systems—agricultural and beyond.
The western Kern County agricultural water district anticipates putting as many as 25 siphon tubes over what’s known as the “sand plug” next to the Coffee Road weir in the
An archeologist with the Tejon Tribe has been working closely with the City of Bakersfield and the two Kern County water districts behind the project to make sure the “significant” Native American sites on the ranch are protected.