The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History opens an exhibit in the local history gallery today on the Beach Flats Community Garden. The exhibit will run for a year and includes clips from interviews with the gardeners, photographs, and other items from the garden. The exhibit is titled “What is worth saving” and asks …
The gardeners of Beach Flats sometimes may seem invisible. They mostly work long hours for low wages during the week, only seeing each other in the late evening or on weekends. This week, with their gathering place at risk of closure, they came together to tell their story directly to the people of Santa Cruz. …
A bulldozer rumbled into the Beach Flats Garden early Thursday morning, tearing out mature fruit trees and nopales plants that city staff had earlier promised would not be touched, and damaging an already strained relationship between the City and community. (For more images, see The Day the Bulldozers Came) Parks workers ripped out stakes and …
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City of Santa Cruz Staff used heavy machinery to uproot and destroy mature fruit trees and nopales today. Topsoil compaction from the bulldozers will do irreparable harm to the precious garden microbes that make the beach flats garden soil so abundant.
Thank you to everyone who has been a part the Beach Flats Community Garden over the last 23 years. 2015 was a year of struggle, and the the community turned out in great numbers to support the gardeners and the Beach Flats neighborhood in their call for the basic public resources. Gardeners and community members …
Under Increasing Threat Of Legal Action, Beach Flats Gardeners Sign City Letters – Indybay Pie in Support of Beach Flats Community Garden! – Indybay Beach Flats gardeners reach accord with Santa Cruz by: jessica york – Santa Cruz Sentinel Coast Lines, Feb. 17, 2016: Community gardeners reach accord with Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz Sentinel Hundreds March for Beach Flats Community …
Yesterday, Emilio, Angelina, and Federico Garcia presented the department of Parks & Rec with a letter they devised saying they have faith that the city will continue to work to preserve 100% of the current Beach Flats garden! The gardeners worked very hard to acquire the signature 17 gardeners, and Dannette Shoemaker, head of Parks …
Come by now until 6 for art in the Beach Flats Community Garden."The city of Santa Cruz has announced a January 20th… Posted by Nopal Media on Thursday, January 21, 2016
El Jardin de la Playa / Save the Beach Flats Garden contingent in #SantaCruz holiday parade! We received an… Posted by Beach Flats Community Garden on Sunday, December 6, 2015
Dolores Huerta visited the garden to support our struggle. We delivered her a key to the garden and recieved her signature on the Petition to save the garden. The community turned out in force to witness this histroic occasion. Santa Cruz Sentinel Article
Beach Flats Community Garden march Gardeners of the Beach Flats Community Garden march with over 200 supporters of the jardín to Santa Cruz City Council meeting on Tuesday October 27, 2015 where all members of the City Council committed to securing a permanent space for the garden. With the November 13th deadline still on the …
Through food, music and art the Beach Flats Community Garden Harvest Festival brought people together to highlight the… Posted by Nopal Media on Thursday, September 3, 2015