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Saturday 1/18: Free Tour at Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center
Whiskey Hill Farms
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County
Listed under: Agriculture, Food & Gardening Community Service & Support
The Williamson Act, passed in 1965, now keeps more than 16 million acres of farmland out of the hands of developers. Here's how the law puts the brakes on the development of California agricultural properties.
For the food-insecure community in Santa Cruz County, Second Harvest Food Bank feeds the need.
Since the Gold Rush era, land reclamation projects have helped to build California, but they are also damaging the state’s environment for people, plants and animals by eliminating essential wetlands.
California has used reclamation districts to turn millions of acres of unusable swamps into fertile agricultural land, starting in the earliest days of the Gold Rush. Here’s how it happened.
California stands as America’s agricultural powerhouse, growing half of its fruits and vegetables. Here’s how California farming has shaped the state, from the early missions to today’s “factories in the field.”
California is a leading producer of agricultural crops. So it’s not surprising to find cutting-edge ideas taking root here.
What do resource conservation districts protect? Pretty much everything that’s worth saving.
From The Pajaronian...
In 1942, the U.S. and Mexico hammered out a deal that allowed millions of Mexican men to enter the country to work as Braceros.
From CalMatters...
Less than two years after he was hired to run the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Zeke Fraser announced his resignation from the post.
From Local News Matters...
From Lookout Local...
From California Healthline...
From CapPublicRadio...
About 40 people gathered outside the CineLux Green Valley Cinema in Watsonville Friday to protest new regulations by the Department of Pesticide Regulation regarding 1,3-dichloropropene, also called Telone, a pesticide widely used in California.
From Santa Cruz Local...
Some nonprofit programs that have long relied on grants from the county and the city of Santa Cruz, including Meals on Wheels and the Santa Cruz Toddler Care Center, haven’t been recommended for new grants this year — potentially leading to major program cuts, nonprofit leaders said.
A cadre of nonprofit leaders and county officials gathered at Cabrillo College on November 7 to kick off Second Harvest Food Bank’s annual Food and Fund Drive, when that organization takes in the lion’s share of its donation for the year and helps feed the people who need it.
From California Local...
“This is a local story about a global issue, the future of water. In a three-part series of field reports and podcasts, Bay City News reporter Ruth Dusseault looks at the tunnel’s stakeholders, its engineering challenges, and explores the preindustrial Delta and its future restoration."
The recreational dungeness crab season will open statewide beginning Nov. 2.
For years, Watsonville Public Library’s Main Street location has drawn community members young and old to find their next great book, perform research or to simply sit and read in silence.
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