2012 News Archive

  • michael pollan visit to casfs farm

    Michael Pollan Tours Farm

    December 11, 2012

    Author and UC Berkeley journalism professor Michael Pollan visited the UC Santa Cruz CASFS Farm on October 25 before taking part in a panel discussion later that evening at Santa Cruz High School.

  • My Sow-Called Life

    September 5, 2012

    California is losing farmers and farmland at an alarming rate, but a new generation of young farmers in Santa Cruz County, including former apprentices Sky DeMuro, Zoe Hitchner and David Evershed, is taking on a risky business to reclaim their home soil.

  • One Perfect Day in Santa Cruz, CA

    August 28, 2012

    Sunset Magazine includes visiting CASFS in its list of things to do in Santa Cruz, CA.

  • UCSC Farm awarded $665,000 USDA grant

    August 22, 2012

    A $665,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant will help teach organic farming techniques to a new generation of farmers enrolled in UC Santa Cruz”s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems apprenticeship program, among other things.

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    USDA grant aids organic farming training program at UC Santa Cruz

    August 21, 2012

    Training for beginning organic farmers on the Central Coast will get a significant boost from a three-year U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) at UC Santa Cruz.

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    USDA grant aids organic farming training program at UC Santa Cruz

    August 21, 2012

    Training for beginning organic farmers on the Central Coast will get a significant boost from a three-year U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) at UC Santa Cruz.

  • Practically green

    April 25, 2012

  • UC Santa Cruz research focuses on organics

    March 21, 2012

    For more than four decades the University of California, Santa Cruz Farm and Garden program has paralleled the growth of the organic produce sector.

  • Photo of Chancellor Blumenthal and others during signing of real-food commitment

    Chancellor signs 'real food' commitment for campus

    March 12, 2012

    Chancellor Blumenthal has signed the UC Santa Cruz Real Food Campus Commitment.

  • Karen Washington

    Farm apprentice graduate honored in Bronx Black History Month ceremony

    February 13, 2012

    Karen Washington, a graduate of the 2008 apprenticeship class at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz, was honored at the annual Black History Month Celebration in the Bronx, N.Y.