WONDERFUL WEB MATERIAL
Thanks to apprentice graduate Daniel Paduano (the techiest
member, and farmer, on the Board of Directors for the Friends
of the UCSC Farm &
Garden), the 2009
UCSC Farm & Garden Apprenticeship Alumni
newsletter can now be viewed online in its entirety—without
having to kill a single tree.
APPRENTICE NEWS & STORIES
Apprenticeship graduates Nancy
Vail and Jered Lawson founded
Pie Ranch on the
San Mateo County coast, and are bringing urban high school students
to the farm to connect with the source of their food. Read a profile
of Nancy and Jered at Epicurious.com (the
website for Bon Appétit
and Gourmet magazines).
Apprenticeship graduates
Shawn Harrison and Marco Franciosa founded Soil
Born Farms in Sacramento,
a project that has grown rapidly since its founding in 2000 and
now includes education, marketing, and training programs. Read a
profile of Shawn and Marco at Epicurious.com.
Apprenticeship Grad Profiled in Sunset Magazine
Darryl Wong, a 2004 graduate of the Apprenticeship, is
profiled in the September 2009 issue of Sunset magazine.
Darryl and fellow Apprenticeship grads Amy Courtney and Kirstin
Yogg run Freewheelin'
Farm on Santa Cruz County's north coast. Read
the article here (144K
PDF). Darryl is the 2010 "Poster Boy" for the campaign,
seen on our front page.
Apprenticeship Graduates' Projects Chosen for Top 10 Urban Farms
Graduates of the UCSC Apprenticeship have deep roots with two
of the Top 10 Urban Farms recognized by Natural
Home magazine:
- Jones Valley Urban Farm in
Birmingham, Alabama, was started by graduates Page Allison and Edwin
Marty, who is executive
director
- The Homeless
Garden Project in
Santa Cruz enjoys the talents of garden director Paul Glowaski and
horticulture director Karalee Greenwald.
Apprenticeship Grads Featured in "40 Farmers Under 40" Profiles
Six graduates of the Apprenticeship program—Jason
Mark, Amy Rice
Jones, Molly Rockaman, Vernay "Pilar" Reber, Emily
Freed,
and Willow Hein—along with UCSC agroecology major Pete
Rasmussen,
are featured in a recent Mother Nature Network article on the new crop of American farmers.
Read about “Food,
What?!”,
a farm and life skills training program for teens founded by
Apprenticeship graduate Doron Comerchero, in the Santa
Cruz Sentinel.
Vera Chang, a 2009 graduate of the Apprenticeship, has been named
West Coast Fellow by Palo Alto-based Bon
Appetit Management Company,
a leader in the sustainable food service industry. As one of
three newly named fellows, Chang will work directly with farmers
around the country to assess overall sustainability, including
labor practices in agricultural operations that supply the
company’s
400 kitchens in 29 states. Chang, who is certified in permaculture
design, was an intern with The California Food & Justice
Coalition and was founder and president of Food Truth, a student
organization that focuses on food issues at Carleton College,
her alma mater.
Apprenticeship graduate Julia Dashe teaches college students
and other community members in San Diego how to farm through the
Seeds at City program.
CASFS Agroecology internship alum uses training to build Ugandan
program CETRUD: "A
decade ago, Godfrey
Kasozi's search for
a practical agriculture course took him across the world from
Uganda before he finally found success with UC Santa Cruz's
Farm and Garden Project." (June 28, 2009.) Read more.
Change on a Fork: Dining Services
at UCSC is cooking up ways to accomplish its twin goals: serving
good-tasting, locally sourced, sustainably grown organic food—and
aiming for zero waste. (Added April 21, 2009.) Read
more.
CASFS Apprenticeship grad Blair Randall organizes
the Victory Garden project in San Francisco, which included
a garden planted in front of San Francisco's City Hall last summer. See
the video. |
Pictured here, Kirstin Yogg, a current member of the Board of Directors
for the Friends of the UCSC Farm & Garden, and a farmer at Freewheelin'
Farm.
CASFS Apprenticeship Grad Wins Campaign for White House Farmer:
Claire Strader, a 2000 graduate of the Apprenticeship in
Ecological Horticulture training course, has won the recent online
election for White House Farmer. Read a profile and article about
Claire.
Apprenticeship graduates have put their
training to work in myriad ways worldwide—as farmers,
gardeners, educators, policy makers, caterers, and leaders in
the organic food industry. Read
brief profiles of some of the program's more than 1,200 graduates.
Recent graduates of the Apprenticeship training program are
starting new farms and contributing to the local food movement in
a variety of ways. Read
more (732K PDF.)
FARMER JANE
Nancy Vail appears (in alphabetical
order) on the page of The
Women of Farmer Jane (the book).
Featured farmer currently on Farmer
Jane is former apprentice
Molly
Rockamann. She farms on 14-acre
Earth Dance Farms.
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