Education & Stewardship: Notes From the Field
What We're Learning on the Land, in Santa Cruz and the greater South Bay
Stewardship is a practice, and practices are meant to be shared. This journal gathers what our crews are seeing and learning across the orchards, gardens, and landscapes we tend: seasonal know-how, growing wisdom for this coast, and the occasional dispatch from a project we loved. For our library of evergreen growing references, visit our Cultivation Guides.
What Vegetable Garden Services Look Like When Someone Who Understands Soil Is Running the Program in Santa Cruz, CA, and the Surrounding Areas
Most vegetable gardens that underperform are not failing because of the plants. They are failing because of what is underneath them. Compacted soil. Poor drainage. Nutrient imbalances. A pH that is too high or too low for the crops being grown. The seeds go in, the water goes on, and the gardener waits for results that never fully arrive.