Chris Sayer 🥑

If we can talk about this one fruit in a more adult way, maybe we can have better conversations about the crops at the center of the American plate.
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Sometimes beauty is functional. Evening primrose is among the plants that support pollinators and improve soil retention and water infiltration around the margins of the avocado orchard.

Send a snail to catch a snail. Decollate snails help control brown garden snails. These are being reintroduced to the Farm Lab educational site at our Saticoy ranch from the more vigorous population in Santa Paula.

Shiny green and not quite ripe. These avocados 🥑 are on some of our younger trees, and will probably be harvested in the early part of the season (January-March) depending on weather, markets. We like to unload the young trees to help them grow.

Rare for us to start covercrop this early, but last week's rain was a chance to get a jump on areas where we might see water movement this winter. Hoping to get roots down before any major rainfall.