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Pollinator Alliance

For nearly 30 years, California’s almond farmers have been global leaders in pollinator health. Leading in investment in research and the development and implementation of best management practices as industry standards to protect and provide for pollinators on farms.

Almond farmers, bees, and other pollinators are the perfect ecological partner, providing for each other’s well-being and continued success.

The Almond Alliance and Great Valley Seed have partnered, farmer to farmer, to develop native plant and seed supplies and make them easily accessible to California’s almond growers to expand pollinator habitat on 7,600 working farms.

This partnership allows California agriculturalists to harness their experience, expertise, and commitment to developing new capacities to install habitats for pollinators on agricultural working lands.

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Pollinator Habitat Program

Having spearheaded the effort in the state legislature and with the office of the governor to create an on-farm pollinator habitat program, the Alliance followed through to complete the development and release of CDFA’s Pollinator Habitat Program. The Pollinator Habitat Program was established by the Budget Act of 2021 (Senate Bill 170, Skinner), allocating $15 million to CDFA to provide grant funding for the establishment of pollinator habitat on agricultural lands throughout California. CDFA was directed to administer the Pollinator Habitat Program and to prioritize the planning of native habitats for the benefit of native biodiversity and the use of locally appropriate native plant seed mixes when feasible.

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