Author: Travis Hill
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Virtual Farm Tour with Terra Cultura
Join us on a virtual walking tour of Terra Cultura! We’re so excited to show you everything we’ve been up to over the last several months, and to answer any questions you have about our upcoming projects and programming.
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Virtual Skillshare – Foraging in Your Own Backyard!
Local forager Andy Hsia-Coron takes us on a virtual tour of the Watsonville Slough, taking a close look at medicinal and edible plants and herbs that we can find growing in our local area. Special thanks to Andy and Michael for sharing your knowledge with the community, and thanks to all of you for attending!…
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Happy New Year from Terra Cultura!
Terra Cultura grew by leaps and bounds in 2019. The farm changed from a dream to a beautiful reality, with the planting of our first crops, and the expansion of our pollinator garden, and food forest. Our educational programs changed from small pilots into fully realized programs, reaching and changing the lives of community members…
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PG&E’s inability to adapt to our new climate puts the onus on us
The question is not whether PG&E is to blame for the largest and most deadly wildfires of our time. We have no choice but to accept that and move onto the more productive question: what can we, in our local communities, be doing to create more resilient power solutions for ourselves in the face of…
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Listen to the Land, Whispering “Horehound”
We’ve been asked recently what we plan to grow on the land. Our answer to that complex question was naively simple when we started out on this adventure a couple years ago: “We don’t know yet. We want to get to know the land before we make our crop plan.” While this response conveniently kicked…
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The Quantified Off-Grid Life
We got our first water bill from the Aromas Water District last week. In our first 30 days on the land, we used 220 cubic feet, or 1645.71 gallons of water. That sounds like a lot, but if you do the math, that works out to 54.85 gallons of water used on-site per day in…
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The Land I Visited
This is the second of a multi-part series about Terra Cultura’s experience searching for a place to call home. You’ll be hearing from Rachel in the coming weeks about the next phases in our epic quest for land. Click here to see the first part of this series, written by Jessica. I landed at SFO…
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Paint and Plant
Over 300 participants joined us at our Paint and Plant event, at Coastal Roots’ Farm and Hangout Season Finale last Thursday afternoon. Children and adults of all ages sat under the shade of our tent, and painted terra-cotta pots, planted wildflower seeds inside, and learned about the importance of bees and other pollinators to our food and to…
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Lessons from the Grapevine
When Jessica and I returned from our world travels in late 2011, we stayed for a short while in San Diego, with Jessica’s parents, while we regrouped and planned our next move. During our stay, we talked a lot about some of the different agricultural and horticultural practices we experienced at the various farms and…
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Terra Cultura Apparel Now Available!
[cmsms_row][cmsms_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsms_text]We’ve got some exciting news that we couldn’t wait to share with you! We’ve been field testing some shirt designs for a couple months now, so you’ve likely seen us around town in our spiffy Terra Cultura tees. Now you can get one of these beautifully designed and printed, high-quality Terra Cultura T-Shirts or Hoodies for yourself!…