Tag: Organic Thu, May 23, 2013

• Letters to the Editor, Feb. 13-19

  Feb 12, 2013, by Guest Writers

  One reader dismisses concerns about public water, while another gets deep into the real reason for corked wine.

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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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• Local Nonprofits Benefit from CSA Shares

  NewsCommunity Jun 19, 2012, by Cat Johnson 1 Comments
  

  To visit the Homeless Garden Project’s Natural Bridges Farm is to step into a simpler world. Just blocks away from the unending flow of traffic on Mission Street and the chaos of downtown Santa Cruz, the farm sits away from it all. Bursting with life, it’s a collage of colors, scents and sounds.

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• Guide to Santa Cruz CSAs

  EnvironmentBusiness May 02, 2012, by Traci Hukill
  

  You don’t have to go to the Santa Cruz farmers markets if you don’t have time. Now the farmers markets can come to you.

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• Community Supported Agriculture Helps Farms Plan Ahead

  EnvironmentBusiness May 01, 2012, by Sally Neas
  

  “CSAs make it doable for farmers,” says Chris Menge of Tierra Madre Farm, a Santa Cruz County nursery operation that is offering its first Community Supported Agriculture program this spring.

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• The Great Santa Cruz Seed Bank Revolt

  Environment Apr 17, 2012, by Maria Grusauskas 2 Comments
  

  Andrew Whitman holds out his hand. At first glance, he appears to be offering up a pile of tiny gray pebbles, or the world’s tiniest seashells, purple and black flecks radiating from the center of each. They are alive, and very, very old, but the spiraled wonders have nothing to do with the ocean. They are the seeds of teosinte, the ancient predecessor of maize and corn.

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