Hey folks, welcome back. This is Andy with the Port Prolls Almanac.

Today we're talking with Tommy Fenster, a PhD

student with UC Davis and the Ecadaisus Foundation. Tommy works primarily with quantifying

agroecological and regenerative farming approaches, specifically around California's perennial

cropping systems. In this episode, we're talking about almond farms, and not just almond farms, but

almond farms in California. There's a lot of conversation around whether or not these systems

are sustainable, and Tommy's work is primarily focused on looking at what people are doing

and how regenerative farming can or can't help solve some of the problems that we see specifically around

water management. To check out Tommy's work, go follow the links we've provided in the show notes

and enjoy the episode. Tommy, thanks so much for coming on. Could you tell our audience a little

bit about yourself? Hello, well, thank you for having me. Yeah, I am much for coming on. Could you tell our audience a little bit about yourself?

Hello, well, thank you for having me.

Yeah, I am right now a PhD student at UC Davis of the Horticulture and Acronomy program and Dr. Amalie Goddeans' Agrile Ecology Lab and sort of unique partnership as well.

I'm also a part of the Ectasis Foundation, which is a regenerative

research organization led by Dr. John Lungren based out in Esteline, South Dakota.

So essentially I have Dr. Gaudine and Dr. Lundgren, my sort of advisors for my PhD, and I

just drafted the master's in biology last May at Cal State East Bay with Dr. Cadyo O'Cawa and John Longgren again

and the network I looked at regenerative management in an almond or ammonds systems and now I'll be

focusing on thin your systems my PhD work still doing a little bit of stuff of the almonds.

Awesome.

So yeah, those are up my alley, both of them.

I like wine and I like, you know, nut trees.

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