Kelsey Fenn was selected to receive a Western SARE Graduate Research and Education grant ($29,984) funding her project titled ‘Physical Soil Health and Water Storage Dynamics of a Novel, Perennial Cover Crop in California Almond Orchards’. Her project partners with almond orchards in the Central Valley to address emerging changes to structural soil properties and soil carbon pools from a perennial cover crop. The goal of this work is to evaluate improvements to soil health and water savings compared to conventional bare ground management.
