the farm dispatch

Many greetings and a happy 2008 to you all. Life is quiet but still quite busy at the farm and gardens. The cover crop has reached knee hi...

Greetings everyone, It’s been quite some time since my last post, and by now you will have surmised that the Farm Dispatch is transitioning ...

Greetings all. Apologies for my recent hiatus. As we push further into summer at the farm, a sort of biological crescendo is building. Mo...

Greetings all, I'd like to invite you to roll up your sleeves for a day of workshops, good food, and good people at the UCSC Farm and Ga...

I'm afraid I may be jumping the bounds of agriculture and straying into social commentary more than usual this week, but the topic of th...

Tuesday morning was cool and foggy--par for the course in Santa Cruz and excellent weather for our first big harvest. We convened in the fie...

On Saturday, I drove 10 miles north of Santa Cruz on Highway 1 to Swanton Berry farm. Swanton's farm manager, a former program particip...