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Habitat for Humanity ReStore
Business Aug 14, 2012, by Paul Wagner 3 Comments
“I sure hope someone donates a forklift,” says Mark Burden, co-manager of Habitat for Humanity’s soon-to-open ReStore. And looking around its giant industrial space on Swift Street, it’s easy to see why. To the left of the former spice company factory floor sits a glowing purple sectional sofa that could easily sit nine. To the right, a gleaming ’50s-style electric oven, burners carefully arranged so one can access the rear pushbutton console without burning one’s wrists. And in the distance, a perfectly arranged stack of solid-core doors so thick and sturdy that a roomful of jocks could yell “What is it with the quarterback? Where the hell did they get that jerk?” all day long and not a peep would disturb your handcrafted yogurt project in the kitchen.
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Canning Classes and Supplies
Business Aug 14, 2012, by Traci Hukill
Anyone with a jones to can, pickle or otherwise preserve the summer harvest should make a pilgrimage to Mountain Feed and Farm Supply (9550 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond; open daily), where an entire building has been dedicated to food preservation supplies. Canning kettles, pressure cookers, tongs, funnels, thermometers and a gorgeous selection of Kerr, Weck and Quattro Stagione jars will make you want to quit your job and move in. If that’s too far to travel, their booth at the Aptos Farmers Market (6500 Soquel Dr., Saturdays 8am-noon) will most likely cover your needs.
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A Few Canning Rules
Business Aug 14, 2012, by Lily Stoicheff
Keep everything clean when you’re composing the jars, but don’t worry about sanitizing. The tomatoes aren’t sanitized, after all. Everything is sanitized in the hot water bath.
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Hot Tomatoes And Canning Class
Business Aug 14, 2012, by Lily Stoicheff
It’s 11am and I’m chopping my way through the largest pile of organic dry farmed tomatoes I’ve ever seen outside of a farmers market with nine other burgeoning homesteaders at Live Earth Farm outside of Watsonville. Jordan Champagne, our ringleader and canning queen at the Happy Girl Kitchen Co., is teaching us how to can tomatoes with the confidence, patience and optimism of a sage.
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Sol Lipman’s Journey
Business Jul 20, 2012, by Eric Johnson 5 Comments
The outline for Sol Lipman’s talk at Thursday night’s TechRaising meetup would read like a standard-issue business-inspirational presentation: Your startup is a journey; it isn’t about the money; don’t be afraid to fail; My Five Rules for Startups. But this was not a standard-issue presentation.
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Love Apple Farm
BusinessCommunity Jul 17, 2012, by Stett Holbrook 1 Comments
The kitchen garden was a relatively new concept on the American restaurant scene when chef David Kinch of Manresa and Cynthia Sandberg of Love Apple Farms began their partnership in 2006, but it has since grown in popularity. While a number of chefs have embraced the farm-to-table movement, few have integrated their cooking with a single farm as deeply as Kinch has. And few farmers are as responsive to the needs of a chef as Sandberg and her crew.
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Where are the Santa Cruz Food Trucks?
NewsBusiness Jul 17, 2012, by Jacob Pierce 1 Comments
When Fran Grayson’s friend was looking to sell a shiny chrome truck, Grayson thought it might be time to make the purchase herself and open up a restaurant on wheels. Grayson’s is one of just a small handful of food trucks in town, most of which—like Cruz n Gourmet, Raymond’s Catering and Babaloo—go to UCSC but don’t make stops in town proper.
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Home Economics of Walnut Commons
EnvironmentBusiness Jul 10, 2012, by Jacob Pierce 1 Comments
If all goes according to plan, Sue Lawson will leave her home in La Selva Beach, where she’s been 32 years, for a new place where she hopes to really get to know the people around her. Lawson intends to move into a proposed 19-unit housing complex that’s up for a city council vote July 24. It would include a community kitchen and activity room—all in the name of getting to know the people next door a little better. “This is why it’s called an intentional community,” the 74-year-old Lawson says. “We meet once a week, and our building isn’t even going to be built for a year and a half.”
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7 Questions for A Startup: Mike Spinak
Business Jun 27, 2012, by SCW Staff
“A lot of children’s books are made in a way that doesn’t respect children much,” says Mike Spinak. “They’re often designed for the lowest common denominator, made to appeal only through bright colors, cuteness, talk about candy, and the like. Very few children’s books treat kids as the brilliant beings they are.”
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Camaraderie Abounds at Gaming Tourney
BusinessCommunity Jun 12, 2012, by Georgia Perry
The Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament at the grand opening weekend of Level Up Video Games in downtown Santa Cruz is bracket-style, starting with 54 and ending with 1. By 1pm the first round is over and most of the little kids have been beaten. Now teenagers and young adults prepare for Round Two.
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