- As part of the California Department of Food and Agriculture Healthy Soil Block Grant Pilot program, $5 million was allocated for Citrus Growers in Kern County, as well as 10 other counties across California.
- The grant’s purpose is to create resilient, sustainable, and productive farmland in these counties through a variety of tactics, like hedgerow planting, carbon sequestration, and soil management practices.
- The grant is being administered by the California Citrus Quality Council, the California Farm Bureau Federation, and the Xerces Society.
- In an email from the California Farm Bureau, applications for the grant are not being accepted at this time, but they hope to start accepting them by March or April.
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:
You might be wondering why I’m in the car and the short answer is: bees. This time of year farmers are using bees to help pollinate their fields. Now recently, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced that there is a grant aim to kind of help these bees.