Almond Living Magazine

Almond Farmers Never Stop Learning

This post was written by Kern County almond grower Jenny Holtermann and originally appeared on her blog, You Say All-mend, I Say Am-end on Dec. 4, 2015. As Jenny describes, The Almond Conference is this week, Dec. 8-10, at the Sacramento Convention Center. Close to 3,000 attendees representing all facets of the California Almond industry will take part in educational...

Can Growing Almonds Fight Climate Change?

Click to EnlargeThis weekend the Almond Board of California is running an ad in an insertion for USA Today readers in New York, Washington, DC and Los Angeles about organizations working to reduce their carbon footprint. The insertion aims to “highlight leaders who have been putting in the extra effort to make their companies and products more sustainable and environmentally...

Almonds Are Unique in So Many Ways, Except One: The Amount of Water They Use

The Almond Board has developed a new infographic illustrating that, despite scrutiny of almonds during California’s drought, almond trees actually require about the same amount of water as other fruit and nut trees across our state’s various growing regions. The fact is that California is one of only a few places on earth have Mediterranean climates ideal for growing almonds...

Students Get to Know Their Food with “An Almond Story”

Since 2009, Almond Board of California (ABC) has responded to the growing interest in local and regional foods through the use of an educational program called “An Almond Story.” In concert with California’s Agriculture in the Classroom program, ABC’s program’s objective is to educate children in the state’s elementary schools, so they can better understand where their food comes from...

Almond Industry and Sustainable Conservation Partnership Explores Almond Acreage Groundwater Recharge

The Almond Board of California and Sustainable Conservation, a conservation nonprofit that unites people to steward California’s resources in ways that make economic sense, announced a new partnership focused on exploring the potential of California’s one million acres of almond orchards to recharge Central Valley groundwater. The project comes just as California enters a much-anticipated El Niño year, which could...

Almond Industry Innovation In Action

Historically early adopters of innovative approaches to irrigation and production methods, almond growers continue pushing the envelope with their support for new technologies and approaches to water use efficiency. Most recently, the Almond Board of California invested in UC Davis research to develop technology that uses sensors to deliver data about real-time orchard conditions to growers’ computers and mobile devices...