Santa Cruz County Agriculture, Food & Gardening Overview

Local organic farming and the healthy foods that come from them took center stage June 16 at the first ever Día de Esperanza Community Festival.

The common American lawn has a problematic history, and creates a lot of problems for the environment.

Several community leaders and community members gathered at MacQuiddy Elementary School Tuesday evening to call on Driscoll’s, Reiter and other companies to stop using toxic pesticides around schools.

Over the next two decades, the city of Watsonville plans to add thousands of trees to its landscape, create a plan to take care of them and train crews of young people to aid in that effort.

Anthony Saua, director of Organic Rising, talks about the rise of organic agriculture and its importance to health, the environment and slowing global warming,

Farmworkers pick strawberries near Watsonville in August 2020. (David Rodriguez — The Salinas Californian file)
Key takeaways

You know that summer is almost here when the convoy of food trucks comes back to Skypark. Starting Friday, April 26, Food Trucks a Go Go presents Food Truck Fridays, the area’s largest food truck festival with new owners Josh …

Honk if you’re hungry.

The state is considering zeroing out funds for CalWORKS family stabilization and job subsidy programs to help balance the budget.

Editor's Note