Where’d we get these ducks?! 🦆 Okay, first of all, some of them are geese. But so glad you asked. 🤓👇 ⁠ ⁠ 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 a duckton of wintering waterfowl who feast on leftover rice, insects, aquatic invertebrates, and weed seeds (which is actually super helpful for regenerative organic farmers like us since, you know, we don’t use chemicals to kill weeds in our organic fields). 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. ⁠ ⁠ But wait… there’s more! 🌱 We also grow cover crops on a portion of our fields. Bryce Lundberg calls cover crops “green juice for t...