Category: Terra Cultura News

Jessica was going to write this post. She recently left for Oaxaca on a month-long Spanish immersion adventure. And she got caught up with wrapping things up before she left. So I’ll have a go. Though I hope she’ll still share her thoughts on the topic some day. The topic is Persephone Days. I hadn’t heard…

Hello Terra Cultura Family! We hope this finds you safe and well as we cautiously emerge from a very difficult period. Out of the grief, anxiety, and sometimes rage, we are heartened now to be finding reasons for celebration and hope. Mostly, this transitional time has been an opportunity to integrate what we’ve learned. Part…

On a sunny Saturday morning in October, members of the Central Coast Mutual Aid Network gathered in front of the Old Mission in San Juan Bautista. Masked, and distanced, we circled up to put the final details on the packs containing the last of 2,000 KN95 masks we had distributed at similar events throughout the…

[cmsms_row][cmsms_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsms_text] We are thrilled to introduce you to 3 new members of the Terra Cultura team! Jessika Le Maire, Carmen Warder, and Javier Aldama joined us in mid-September as part of our internship program, and we are so lucky to have them on board. They each bring unique expertise and a fresh perspective to…

It’s been about a month since the Terra Cultura staff ventured to Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove for the annual EcoFarm Conference. The Conference is put on by The Ecological Farming Association — a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to nurture safe, healthy, just, and ecologically sustainable farms, food systems, and communities by…

Well it’s been a winter of reflection on where we’ve been and where we’re going, and what we want from a future we are building together. With the whiff of spring on the breeze, our planning is transitioning to affectionate labor. Soon we’ll cut down our cover crop and implement our planting schedule as we…

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…

Hello dear friends of Terra Cultura! We want to thank those of you who came to our Barnraiser event on October 13th. By day, you came to Terra Cultura to get your hands dirty with us, and to see all we’ve accomplished in the past year. By night, you feasted and celebrated with us at…