Digging Deep: Hedgerow Farms Blog
Browse our blog to learn from our experts, explore new ideas, and the latest tips, tricks and insights.
Registration is open for our April 5th Hedgerow Farms field day– a fundraiser for the CA Native Grasslands Association. Click here to learn more about past field days and how to sign up!
- By: Julia Michaels
- February 13th, 2024
Learn about our ongoing mowing and burning trials at the farm, and how the lessons learned from growing native bunchgrasses at our seed farm can help land stewards improve their management in wildlands.
Main Takeaways:
- Healthy stands of bunchgrass require grazing, mowing, or burning
- Seed production and regeneration decreases without mowing or grazing
- It is better to mowing or graze stands of bunchgrasses before burning
- Mowing and grazing increases seed production and regeneration
On November 21, 2023, Hedgerow Farms partnered with the Sacramento Tree Foundation and the City of Elk Grove Parks Department for a day of planting California native wildflowers along the Franklin Creek Trail in Elk Grove. Learn more about this project here!
- By: Jody Miller & Diana Benner, CNGA Board Members
- February 20, 2024
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Julia Michaels, Ph.D.
Julia Michaels completed her Ph.D. in Ecology at U.C. Davis and has 10 years of experience as a Restoration Ecologist. She oversees special projects for state, federal, and nonprofit organizations, including special wildland collections, contract grows, and the design of custom seed mixes.
