This list contains restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and grocery stores in the Santa Cruz area that serve organic and locally sourced food and drinks. We focused on locally owned establishments as much as possible.
In the fifth post in a series about community wealth, we discuss an initiative to create a downtown commons in Santa Cruz, CA.
In part four of a series about community wealth, we explore the role of public banks and the initiative to pass California Assembly Bill 857.
In part three of our series about building community wealth, we explore cooperative and community-owned housing initiatives in the East Bay, Santa Cruz, and Davis.
In part 2 in our series about building community wealth, we explore the role of anchor institutions and universities as anchor collaboratives.
Beginning with a permaculture approach to economics, we explore strategies for building community wealth, including numerous examples from California.
In this article, we cover some leading definitions of permaculture, as well as the ethics, principles, and key topics of the permaculture flower.
We’re excited to announce that John Valenzuela is the new lead instructor for our PDC course starting this October! Read this interview to learn more.
During Santa Cruz Permaculture’s first Permaculture Food Forests class the weekend of August 10-11, twenty eager students had the opportunity to visit three different sites that share the same goal: growing food and medicine.
In the fourth post in our Rainwater Harvesting series, learn how to design and build berms and swales to slow, spread, and sink water on sloped landscapes.
In our alumni spotlight for this month, we interviewed Julia Herring, who received her Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) in 2018 through our course.
Learn about the soil food web, why biologically active soil is important in organic permaculture systems, and how you can foster healthy and active soil in your garden or farm.
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