# @lundbergfarms on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C602PGSvZXS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17836892-lundbergfarms-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/8d4f0841f2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-05-11T11:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Lundberg Family Farms (@lundbergfarms) — https://gondola.cc/lundbergfarms

## Caption

Get in loser, we’re going birding. 🔭🪿 

Life hack for all of you bird nerds 🤓 out there – flooded rice fields 🌾 are bird magnets. Go for a ride with resident bird nerd & fourth-generation farmer Brita Lundberg. 

Our farm is part of the Pacific Flyway, a major migratory pathway for birds. But the wetlands those birds depend on have been disappearing for decades due to development. Today, 95% of California’s wetlands are gone. So, each winter, we flood a portion of our fields to replicate California’s natural wetlands, providing vital habitat and nutrition for thousands of wintering waterfowl who feast on leftover rice, insects, aquatic invertebrates, and weed seeds. Their feet also press nutrient-rich rice straw into the soil, which decomposes the rice straw and turns it into mulch for next year’s crop. 

#worldmigratorybirday #birding #birdlovers #farmlife #organicfarmer #organicfarming #californiarice #organicrice #regenerative #regenerativeag #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #lundbergfamilyfarms

## Stats

- **Views:** 728
- **Likes:** 123
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 26

## Tags

farmlife, regenerativefarming, birding, regenerative, organicfarmer, organicfarming, regenerativeagriculture, organicrice, birdlovers, worldmigratorybirday, lundbergfamilyfarms, regenerativeag, californiarice

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