Jesse Sanchez, the farm manager at Sano Farms out west of the small town of Firebaugh, was honored as a White House Champion of Change.

This past Monday, October 26^th, Jesse Sanchez, the farm manager at Sano Farms out west of the small town of Firebaugh, was honored in Washington, D.C. as a White House Champion of Change. Working closely with Alan Sano, the farm's owner, over the past ten years, Jesse has developed highly efficient production practices for the roughly 1500 acres of processing and fresh market tomatoes that employ the use of off-season cover crops to add carbon to the soil to improve tilth as well as water storage and movement in the soil, and also, the use of a form of reduced tillage that is called strip-tillage.  Read more on the Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) website.