While our President attempts to reform our shattered health care system, Michelle Obama has taken a slightly different approach. Our First Lady has made childhood obesity public enemy #1, and for good reason. Sedentary lifestyles, food choices that leave them little choice but to harm themselves, and a school lunch program that has been hijacked [...]
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Thanks to countless hours of hard work by Gene Sanden, the site for the cistern is ready to go. Capitola Pump delivered the cistern, donated by Patty Quillin, and will return with a crane to set it in place. We extend our thanks to Capitola Pump for donating their services on this part of the [...]
December was a very busy month for the Aptos Community Garden. The Rotary Clubs of Santa Cruz, Sunrise and Aptos/Capitola put in numerous days volunteering as they erected the remaining fence that will protect the garden proper. The Aptos Community Garden Board met for the first time on Dec.16, 2009. Board members include: Trent and [...]
How did we get involved with our community garden? We met Jeff and Adele Talmadge, owners of Talmadge Construction, at our city’s annual Shortest Parade in the World and Pancake Breakfast on the 4th of July this year. We were introduced by our dear friends, Kim and Pete Mansfield. Kim used to watch their son [...]
Food What?! Youth Dig In A big reason why more of us don’t buy organic food is because of the price. Of course, growing your own sustainable garden is an inexpensive option. The National Gardening Association’s recent study “The Impact of Home and Community Gardening in America” cites that a well-maintained food garden can yield an [...]
We’re so excited! Linda and I have worked so hard on our children’s book, and after months of hard work we just received our first copy. And, despite sounding vainglorious, it is really beautiful! The book was something we decided to write to supplement the Classroom Bundle and Homeschool Bundle that we have just launched. [...]
Mother Nature Network‘s Matt Hickman continued his popular 40 Farmers Under 40 blog post with a follow up recently—The Readers Choice 40 Farmers Under 40. Now it’s hard to say whether or not we were actually #39 and #40 respectively due to our popularity, our age, or just because they really wanted a strong finish! [...]
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We just had our first tomato sale this weekend. We sold about 15 lbs of tomatoes, making $45 in 4 hours. It may not seem like much, but if you consider our rural location you would agree that it’s pretty awesome. Aidan was a huge help and loved weighing them, making change and asking each [...]
Trent and Linda skate through the nursery! (Photo: Rod Brodman for Sunset Magazine) Many customers have emailed us asking about the organic nursery, so we thought we’d write a post to update you all. After spending two years getting our growing operation going, Santa Cruz County was invaded by the Light Brown Apple Moth [...]
Here a few reasons why everyone is talking about Growing Your Own: 43 million households will do it this year. The Obamas already are. Michael Pollan said it’s the “single greenest thing you can do” on Oprah’s Earth Day Special. Two summer movies – Food, Inc. and Fresh The Movie — are talking about it. [...]
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