Butte County Farm Bureau CDFA Healthy Soils Program Incentive Grant
Applications for Butte County Healthy Soils Program Incentive Grant are now closed.
Applications are in review and those who are selected will be contacted by Butte County Farm Bureau. If selected and funded, reach out here to our TAP team for implementation support.
Butte County Farm Bureau has been awarded a $5M grant to support Butte, Glenn, and Tehama county farmers who implement conservation agricultural practices that help build healthy soils. CRARS is helping applicants to apply, answer questions, and provide technical assistance.
Awards of up to $100,000 are being granted to implement on-farm soil health practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and store carbon in soil, trees, and shrubs. Free technical support is available to help farmers implement eligible practices.
Eligible practices include:
- Mulch
- Multispecies cover crops
- Range planting
- Compost Filter strips
- Reduced tillage (conservation tillage)
- Windbreaks
Socially disadvantaged and small farm applicants will be given priority.
Click here to watch the Project Design Tutorial, "Conservation Planning and Development tool: Replan”
Request free one on one technical assistance for your project.
Use this form to give specifics about your farm or ranch. A CRARS Technical Assistance Provider will get in touch via your preferred method of contact.
If you’d prefer to reach out to a technical assistance provider directly by email instead, please use the following contacts: Ted Gailey(opens in new window) or Zion Brigham(opens in new window).
Need assistance in Spanish?
Contact Lindsey Hethcote(opens in new window).
For more information about the grant in general, call 530-533-1473 or write to info@buttefarmbureau.com , or Butte County Farm Bureau at 1148 Richvale Highway, Richvale CA 95974.
