Upcoming Events

  • Produce

    Produce Pop-Up - Spring Quarter

    Wednesdays, 11am-3pm at Quarry Plaza and Fridays, 11am-3pm at Science Hill
    Affordable organic produce from the UCSC Farm and local farmers, available to students, staff, faculty, and community members! Cash, EBT, Card, and Check accepted. Find us at Quarry Plaza on Wednesdays and outside the Science and Engineering Library on Fridays for spring quarter.
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    Spring Plant Sale

    April 27 & 28, 11am-3pm at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn
    Planning your spring garden? Support your campus farm by shopping at the Center for Agroecology's annual Spring Plant Sale! Our high quality organic vegetable, flower, and herb seedlings are grown by staff, students, and volunteers in the UCSC Farm greenhouses. 
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    Organic Rising Film Screening

    Friday, May 3, 5pm-9pm at the Rio Theatre
    Enjoy a screening of the documentary that demystifies the USDA organic regulatory process and farming methods to allow consumers to make informed choices and to explore avenues of supporting and maintaining a strong and robust agricultural future.

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    Roses in the Garden

    Saturday, May 4, 9am-12:30pm at the Alan Chadwick Garden
    Led by our own experienced rose grower and organic gardening instructor Orin Martin, this class will be a lively discussion on growing roses in the home garden, appropriate whether you intend to grow one, 10, or 100 roses. For while scale matters, the basics are the same.
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    Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

    Sunday, May 5, 2-3:30pm at the UCSC Farm
    Tour the farm's organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children's garden, while learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the farm also offers spectacular views of the Monterey Bay.
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    Maisie Ganzler: "You Can't Market Manure at Lunch Time" book talk

    Tuesday, May 21, 5:30-7pm at the Hay Barn
    Join us for an evening with Maisie Ganzler, author of the newly published book, You Can't Market Manure at Lunch Time, Five invaluable lessons for doing sustainability right, doing it profitably, and getting the credit you deserve. Q&A and book signing to follow the talk (copies of Maisie's book will be available for purchase).