Click here to download and print the 1.1 MB PDF of this poster for your business window. Or your refrigerator!
Wednesday, June 24, after the farmers market next week, is a fine time to be in downtown Santa Cruz. Amy Padilla of Feel Good Foods (my personal favorite caterers in town, if not anywhere) is preparing fabulous appetizers (local, organic, seasonal, ya, you betcha) for the "Grow a Farmer" Summer Soirée. The party will take place at 101-B Cooper Street, underneath the NextSpace offices.
Wine, good food, good people, and probably live music. We hope to meet a lot of new people from the Downtown Santa Cruz Association, and look forward to hooking up farmers with new friends.
We are VERY close to making our original goal of $250K, and the Board of Supervisors will present a UCSC Farm representative with the official proclamation that "June is 'Grow a Farmer' Month in Santa Cruz County."
All proceeds benefit the campaign to build permanent housing for the UCSC Farm apprentices during the six-month residential program.
I'll have more news on that soon…it's been a very busy six months for me, but it's the best thing I've ever been involved with.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: (I'll trot out Barbara Kingsolver again: this is one of my favorite sentences, ever.)
“Whatever lofty things you might accomplish today,
you will do them only because you first ate something
that grew out of dirt.”
— Barbara Kingsolver
It doesn't get any more elementally true than that.
Have you made your plans to see "Food, Inc."? Variety magazine says, "[D]oes for the supermarket what 'Jaws' did for the beach." BWAH!
Thanks for visiting!
It seems a very funny organization, i wish i could be there. Meeting with agriculture , nature lovers also green enthuasist would be great for me.
Posted by: Çağlar Keskin | 31 July 2009 at 11:47 AM