2014 News Archive
Fall Review Magazine Features CASFS Work on Global Food Initiative
November 3, 2014
UCSC's Fall Review Magazine Features CASFS Work on Global Food Initiative
Harvest festival brings 300 students to UCSC farm
October 23, 2014
Students learn about nutrition and growing food at the Harvest Festival at the UCSC Farm.
Former UCSC student returns to share his love for garlic
October 1, 2014
Pete Rasmussen returned to campus to teach a garlic workshop.
Food for Thought
October 1, 2014
UC Santa Cruz—"The Mothership" of organic agriculture—has much to offer the ambitious new UC Global Food Initiative.
NY Times Names Apprenticeship Alum "Urban Ag's Grand Dame"
September 22, 2014
NY Times Names Apprenticeship Alum Karen Washington "Urban Ag's Grand Dame"
Scholarship support available for UC Santa Cruz organic farming training program
July 29, 2014
Applications are now open for the 2015 Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture program, with a range of scholarship support available
Former farm apprentice wins national food sustainability leadership award
July 22, 2014
Karen Washington, a graduate of the 2008 Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, is one of five winners of a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award.
Farm to Fork Takes Root on the Coast
July 15, 2014
Golden Isles magazine profiles apprentice alum and chef Matthew Raiford.
CASFS to Participate in New UC Global Food Initiative
July 3, 2014
Sustainable agriculture training, research, and outreach work will be part of the new UC Global Food Initiative announced by UC President.
Napolitano aims to grow UC role in fighting hunger
July 1, 2014
University of California President Janet Napolitano plans to leverage the state’s role in agriculture and research to tackle one of the world’s most pressing problems: food.
$4-million gift establishes endowment to support sustainable agriculture
June 30, 2014
A $4-million gift to the University of California, Santa Cruz will establish an endowment to support the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, the nation's first hands-on training program for beginning organic farmers at a public university.
Briefing on 2013-2014 Activities of the Campus Food Systems Working Group
June 1, 2014
A summary of FSWG activities for 2013-2014 school year.
Strawberry Blast at UCSC introduces youth to food issues
May 20, 2014
Hosted by nonprofit Food, What?!, the annual Strawberry Blast brought Santa Cruz County students to UCSC's farm Tuesday.
CCOF Magazine profiles the CASFS/Farm & Garden Apprenticeship
April 28, 2014
CCOF Magazine profiles the CASFS/Farm & Garden Apprenticeship in its Spring 2014 feature on organic farming higher education in California.
UCSC Farm & Garden’s annual spring plant sale set for weekend of May 3, 4
April 22, 2014
The UCSC Farm & Garden’s spring plant sale this year features many “water-wise” varieties of food and landscape plants, along with information on water-conserving crops and practices, and a free seed exchange hosted by UCSC’s Demeter Seed Library.
UC Santa Cruz workshop cultivates green thumbs
March 22, 2014
Taught once a week over a period of three weeks, the workshop, "Garden Cruz: Organic Matters," at the Alan Chadwick Garden offers a curriculum that covers basic things including how to dig plots in the dirt and plant things in the soil as well as advance topics such as creating compost to enrich the soil.
Deconstruction begins of historic Cowell Ranch barn
March 21, 2014
Crews began dismantling the historic Cowell Ranch hay barn Tuesday (March 18), the first step in a multi-year process to rebuild it as a home for many of UCSC's leading environmental and sustainability programs.
CASFS apprenticeship alum wins land steward award from Georgia Organics
March 11, 2014
Celia Barss, a 2002 graduate of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food System’s apprenticeship program at UC Santa Cruz, won the 2014 Land Steward Award as Georgia’s organic agriculture community held its 17th annual organics conference.
Food system career started with a single bite
March 3, 2014
For UC Santa Cruz's Tim Galarneau, his first bite of a ripe heirloom tomato was an epiphany — one that put him on the path to becoming one of the chief architects and a champion of UC's sustainable food movement.
University of California Global Food Initiative
February 1, 2014
UC is harnessing its resources to address one of the critical issues of our time: How to sustainably and nutritiously feed a world population expected to reach eight billion by 2025.
EcoFarm Conference Features CASFS Staff, Graduates
January 13, 2014
The 2014 Ecological Farming conference features workshops by CASFS staff and Apprenticeship graduates.
Sweet Onions and Beginning Farmers: One Mentor's Work
January 1, 2014
Jim Leap is able to share his four decades of organic farming knowledge with a new generation, thanks to a program called Building a Foundation for New Farmers: Training, Resources, and Networks.
