Azolla fertilizer at Wangari Kuria's farm can be used as a protein nutrient in farm animals such as chicken and cattle and also can be used in crop farming. [David Gichuru, Standard] The soaring ...

Scrivner Hoppe-Glosser stands in a field at Azolla Farms in Pleasant Grove, after it flooded due to a winter storm. Hoppe-Glossner runs the farm with Rosie Kaperonis. Courtesy Rosie Kaperonis ...

FACING. >> WE LITERALLY LOST EVERYTHING AS FAR AS VEGETABLES IN THE FIELD. REPORTER: A SPRING SEASON OF LOSS AT THE AZOLLA FARM. >> THE WATER WENT UP AND DOWN, BUT IT WAS CONSISTENTLY FOR 20 DAYS.

Back-to-back storms at the start of the new year put one Sacramento-area farm 3 feet underwater, drowning crops and squelching income. “We lost everything,” said Rosie Kaperonis of Azolla Farm, who ...