Announcements April 2026
Happy Earth Month, everyone!
See below for links to upcoming events and opportunities:
Upcoming Events
Cal Poly
1. Tomato Spectacular, Poly Plant Shop: 4/4
2. Regeneration Field Institute, Ecuador Summer Session - Virtual Info Session: 4/9
3. Open House and Poly Royal: 4/9-11
4. Cheesemaking for Beginners, Dairy Products Technology Center: 4/23
5. Cal Poly Meats and Poly Provisions: open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays
6. Cal Poly Creamery Ice Cream & Cheese Drive-thru: Fridays
San Luis Obispo & Central Coast
7. Beaver Dam Analog (BDA) Restoration Site Tours: 4/7, 4/20, 5/1, 5/9
8. Everything Edible, Santa Maria / SLO / Arroyo Grande: 4/10 - 5/2
9. Beaver Festival 2026, San Luis Obispo: 4/11
10. Los Osos Valley Garden Club Spring Plant Sale: 4/11
11. Birds and Bloom with Morro Coast Audubon Society, SLO Botanical Garden: 4/12
12. SLO EarthFest, San Luis Obispo: 4/18
13. Greenspace Earth Day, Cambria: 4/19
14. Guided Tidepooling for Earth Day, Central Coast State Parks: 4/22
15. Rancher to Rancher: Grazing Through the Dormant Season, Templeton: 4/24
16. Tomato Fandango, Tiber Canyon Ranch SLO: 4/25-26
17. Santa Barbara Earth Day: 4/25-26
19. Annual Cambria Wildflower Show: 4/25-26
20. Santa Rita Ranch BioBlitz, The Land Conservancy of SLO: 4/27
21. Vineyard Team: Dry Farm Site Tour & Holistic Soil Health: 4/28 & 5/8
22. SLO County Sudden Oak Death (SOD) Blitz, 5/1-4
23. Reading the Land: Monitoring Soil,Water,Biodiversity, Jalama Canyon Ranch, Lompoc: 5/2-3
24. The Western Food Safety Conference, Hartnell College, Salinas: 5/6-7
25. State of the Bay Science Explorations at Cuesta, Morro Bay Estuary Program: 5/7
26. Sheep Shearing Shindig, City Farm SLO: 5/9
27. Olive and Lavender Festival, Paso Robles: 5/9
28. Cuesta Ranch Education: Sustainable Water Infrastructure: 5/9 & 5/16
California
29. The Farm Is Here Book Tour, Ojai & Ventura: 4/8 & 4/9
30. Ventura County Farm Day: 4/11
31. Transhumance Festival, Petaluma: 4/11
32. Spring Field Day: Focus on Pollinator Plantings, Lockeford Plant Materials Center: 4/15
32. San Francisco Climate Week: 4/18-23
33. From Farm to Shelf: Integrating Organic Produce into the Supply Chain, Royal Oaks: 4/21
34. California Agriculture Day, Sacramento: 4/21
35. Rustic Ramble, Capay Valley Grown, Esparto: 4/26
36. Regenerative Avocados, Citrus and Strawberries Conference, Ventura County: 5/4 & 5/11
37. Festival of Fruit 2026, Fullerton: 6/9-14 [Early bird reg ends 4/19]
38. Free Organic Transition Workshops, Riverside: 7/15 & 8/10
Virtual
39. ASD as an Ecological Tool to Regenerate Soil Health, eOrganic: 4/2
40. LEED Green Associate Training: 4/11 or On-Demand [Coupon code ‘green’]
41. UC Ag Experts Talk: Lettuce Production and Disease Management in the Salinas Valley: 4/15
Opportunities
42. Compost Connector, Rebates for CA growers, Zero Foodprint
43. University Scholarship Program, Compost Research and Education Foundation: apply by 4/15
44. Value-Added Producer Grants: apply by 4/15
45. CCOF Future Organic Farmers Scholarships: apply by 4/17
46. CDFA Healthy Soils Program Block Grant application deadline: 5/15
47. CDFA SWEEP Block Grant application deadline: 5/15
48. Civic Spark Fellow applications open: 4/9 – 5/22
49. 2027 EcoFarm Conference Content Proposals: due 6/5
50. Seeds for Bees Program application for free seeds is open through 8/31
To request to have your sustainable food and farming announcement included,
please send information and link to cfs@calpoly.edu
