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.
Hiring a Drought-Tolerant Landscape Company in Santa Cruz, CA Without Giving Up the Harvest
Water is the constraint every property here is designed around, and hiring a drought-tolerant landscape company in Santa Cruz, CA is usually framed as a choice to give something up. It does not have to be.
On a property that also grows food, low-water planting is what makes the harvest affordable, because the ornamental parts of the garden stop competing for a budget the fruit trees and the kitchen beds actually need.