Almonds Content / Almonds Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en Almond Orchard Recycling a Climate-Smart Strategy /climate/news/almond-orchard-recycling-a-climate-smart-strategy <p>Recycling trees onsite can sequester carbon, save water and increase crop yields, making it a climate-smart practice for California’s irrigated almond orchards, finds a study from the University of California, Davis.</p> <p><a href="https://orchardrecycling.ucdavis.edu/what-whole-orchard-recycling">Whole orchard recycling</a> is when old orchard trees are ground, chipped and turned back into the soil before new almond trees are planted.</p> April 01, 2020 - 12:19pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/almond-orchard-recycling-a-climate-smart-strategy Flooding Farms in the Rain to Restore Groundwater /news/uc-davis-flooding-farms-restore-groundwater <p>The Central Valley sky was a never-ending expanse of gray. Not a single pixel of blue in sight. Under it, ºÙºÙÊÓƵ scientists were flooding a Modesto almond orchard with half a foot of water. On purpose. In the pouring rain.</p> <p>It sounds a bit strange, and&nbsp;on Jan. 19, <a href="https://vine.co/v/ieZiEdhZdKj">looked even stranger</a>.</p> January 26, 2016 - 9:59am Katherine E Kerlin /news/uc-davis-flooding-farms-restore-groundwater