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.
Kitchen Garden Services in Santa Cruz, CA Should Start With What You Eat
Nobody plants a kitchen garden intending to compost most of it, and yet a great many beds in Santa Cruz, CA produce a glut of one thing and nothing anybody wants. Good kitchen garden services in Santa Cruz, CA begin with a conversation about the kitchen, not the soil.
Orchard Keepers started when Matthew Sutton began pruning fruit trees around Santa Cruz, and the company has been caring for home orchards and edible landscapes on this coast for two decades. That has made one pattern obvious.