Almond Living Magazine

Almonds Are Unique in So Many Ways, Except One: The Amount of Water They Use

The Almond Board has developed a new infographic illustrating that, despite scrutiny of almonds during California’s drought, almond trees actually require about the same amount of water as other fruit and nut trees across our state’s various growing regions. The fact is that California is one of only a few places on earth have Mediterranean climates ideal for growing almonds...

Students Get to Know Their Food with “An Almond Story”

Since 2009, Almond Board of California (ABC) has responded to the growing interest in local and regional foods through the use of an educational program called “An Almond Story.” In concert with California’s Agriculture in the Classroom program, ABC’s program’s objective is to educate children in the state’s elementary schools, so they can better understand where their food comes from...

Almond Industry and Sustainable Conservation Partnership Explores Almond Acreage Groundwater Recharge

The Almond Board of California and Sustainable Conservation, a conservation nonprofit that unites people to steward California’s resources in ways that make economic sense, announced a new partnership focused on exploring the potential of California’s one million acres of almond orchards to recharge Central Valley groundwater. The project comes just as California enters a much-anticipated El Niño year, which could...

Almond Industry Innovation In Action

Historically early adopters of innovative approaches to irrigation and production methods, almond growers continue pushing the envelope with their support for new technologies and approaches to water use efficiency. Most recently, the Almond Board of California invested in UC Davis research to develop technology that uses sensors to deliver data about real-time orchard conditions to growers’ computers and mobile devices...

Sustainability and the U.S. Dietary Guidelines

National Public Radio (NPR) recently quoted language from an editorial in Science magazine that states: “’With 80 percent of the world’s almonds growing in drought-stricken California, should consumers be advised to limit almond consumption and consider alternatives that consume fewer resources?’” Part of the response we provided to NPR made it into the online story – that research funded by...

Almond Orchard Experience Brings Farming to Life for Nutrition and Fitness Experts

For the sixth year in a row, the Almond Board of California brought together about two dozen prominent nutrition and fitness professionals from all over the U.S. and Canada for a three-day, hands-on ?Almond Orchard Experience? covering production, nutrition research, and culinary applications of almonds, so the attendees could learn and share their learnings in traditional and social media. Attendees...