Watersheds & Farms Certified farms are presented by watershed or drainage area. The quality of farm products is the result of the particular natural features of the farm as well as the management practices of the grower.
The Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta The Delta is a maze of islands, sloughs, ditches and channels. Once an extensive freshwater wetland, the current Delta landscape is the result of many years of; levee construction, ditching and draining to isolate wetlands from flooding and create productive agricultural land. Chinese laborers...
Sierra Range The Sierra Nevada, the spine of California, reaches over 14,000 feet in its southern extent and 10,000 feet in the north. These mountains formed from the uplift of a massive block of granite with the collision of tectonic plates about 4 million years ago. Scoured and sheared by glaciers and streams...
Additional Watersheds Farmers throughout the state are interested in the Fish Friendly Farming program. We have certified a number of sites in Solano and Santa Clara Counties and a large table grape operation in Kern County. Pleasants Valley and Mix Canyon in western Solano County in the Vaca Mountain range are the...
North Coast The natural features of these watersheds vary greatly. The largest drainage, the Russian River, is a "big valley" river with a series of major alluvial river valleys with numerous creeks draining steep mountains flanking each valley. The Napa River is similar, coursing through the alluvial Napa...
