Wildlife-friendly Agriculture PrActices informAtion
Wildlife-Friendly
The Farm on Putah Creek hosts visitors of all ages and backgrounds interested in seeing real-world applications of the principles underlying its wildlife-friendly agricultural and conservation practices. This includes tailwater ponds and sediment traps, riparian buffer strips and upland restoration, insectary hedgerows including native pollinator habitat - and native windbreaks.
Advance notice for visits is requested — If you are interested in visiting the Farm on Putah Creek to learn more about our Wildlife- Friendly practices, or to learn about the Farm’s educational programs, click here for more information.
The programs at FPC cultivate leadership in sustainable agriculture practices, environmental stewardship, land-based education and land use policy and planning. FPC hosts tours, workshops, school field trips and service learning projects, seminars, retreats and meetings. Participants have included landowners, local resource groups and non-profits, staff and boards of rural conservation districts, government leaders, university extension staff, researchers and professors, graduate students and interns. The work at FPC adds to the research, learning, networking and discussions surrounding agricultural landscapes with an emphasis on sustainable practices.
The Farm on Putah Creek is privately held land protected by an agricultural conservation easement. It is open to the public nearly every day of the week.
For more information about any of the programs or services at the Farm on Putah Creek, please call (530) 795-9569.
Wildlife highlights at the Farm:
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Native Pollinators:
The Farm on Putah Creek is the home to the California Agriculture Pollinator Project. Staff from The Xerces Society utilize the Farm’s hedgerows, ponds, grassland plantings, and riparian restoration areas as prime locations for research, technical training and education for landowners and Citizen Scientists, and outreach to the general public. For more information about the California Agriculture Pollinator Project, click here.
For additional information and publications on Agriculture Pollinators, click here.
Birds:
Bird lists for Farm on Putah Creek
Click here for the PDF of the Putah
Creek Terrestrial Wildlife Monitoring
Program – 2005 Report
Click here for the PDF of the Putah
Creek Terrestrial Wildlife Monitoring
Program – 2004 Report
Amphibians:
Dragonflies:
Western River Cruiser
1st sighting in Solano County
(photographed at the Farm on Putah
Creek Pond)
The Farm on Putah Creek's tailwater pond boasts numerous species of California native grasses, shrubs, forbs, and trees.
Close-up of Bufo boreas in the pond.
A beautiful display of Bush Lupine in the Farm’s hedgerow.
A Native Pollinator information sign at the Farm.
Click here to download the PDF version of the “Farm on Putah Creek: Putting Pollinator Restoration into Practice.”
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