Posts Tagged: UC Santa Cruz

UC student farms seed innovation

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when organic was a foreign word to most Americans, students at UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz were part of a wave of environmental activism that sought alternatives to agricultural methods that distanced people from farms and...

Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 10:44 AM

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Posted By: Alec Rosenberg
Written by: Harry Mok

Tags: students (4), sustainable (11), UC Davis (15), UC Santa Cruz (2)

Growing organic farmers

Report authors (from L) Jan Perez, Damian Parr and Linnea Beckett

Well before Safeway launched a line of organic products or Craigslist posted openings for school garden coordinators, UC Santa Cruz was training students for careers in organic farming. The UC Santa Cruz Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture started...

The apprenticeship program takes place at UC Santa Cruz's farm and Chadwick Garden

Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 3:06 PM

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Author: Alec Rosenberg

Tags: Jan Perez (1), organic (6), UC Santa Cruz (2)