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US (CA): Specialty crop grant to result in growers guides

A three-year, specialty crop grant awarded to the University of California Santa Cruz will result in organic growers guides for eight crops, including cut flowers, potatoes, peppers, and winter squash, reports the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The forthcoming growers guides will be available free, online. 

They will be based on documented crops grown this year at the Alan Chadwick Garden at UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, and will cover topics such as seed selection, irrigation, and yield. "[The grant] provides the opportunity to more thoroughly document many of the organic production practices that we’ve been using for several decades and make that information more widely available to beginning farmers via the written Grower Guides," Martha Brown, principal editor for agroecology center, stated.

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