A grant of $100,000 from the UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) Pilot Funding Initiative will support a Center for Agroecology research trial on biointensive no-till practices for micro farms and urban gardens.
The project, led by Joji Muramoto, will bring together a team of researchers and experienced growers to explore the impacts of no-till organic growing on hand-worked plots ranging from less than an acre to five acres). The pilot will initiate long-term research plots at the UCSC Farm and Chadwick Garden to support investigations by partner organizations on no-till micro farms in the region.
Center for Agroecology/UCSC participants: Joji Muramoto and undergraduate students
Funding: UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience