Save The Beach Flats Garden
We believe that the Beach Flats Community Garden is a vital community resource. Loss, fragmentation or relocation of the garden would irreparably damage this thriving and unique space of food production and community engagement. We ask the City of Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Seaside Company to work together with members of the community to find a long-term solution for keeping the entirety of the garden open as a public space.
Salvar El Jardín de la Comunidad de la Playa
Creemos que El Jardín de la Comunidad de la Playa es un recurso vital para la comunidad. Perder, fragmentar, o reubicar el jardín dañaria este espacio lo cual es único en su prosperidad y su importancia por la producción de alimentos y la participación de la comunidad. Pedimos a la ciudad de Santa Cruz y la Santa Cruz Seaside Company para colaborar con los miembros de la comunidad para encontrar una solución a largo plazo para mantener la totalidad del jardín abierto como espacio público.
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| 1,747 | Ms Samantha C. | May 20, 2019 | |
| 1,746 | Ms Yekaterina S. | May 17, 2019 | |
| 1,745 | Ms Miranda d. | May 17, 2019 | |
| 1,744 | Mr Zach D. | May 17, 2019 | |
| 1,743 | Mr Benny D. | There is nothing more empowering than growing your own food; destroying this garden is destroying an incredible source of livelihood and joy in the community. | May 17, 2019 |
| 1,742 | Mx. Maia B. | May 16, 2019 | |
| 1,741 | Ms Rachel H. | May 16, 2019 | |
| 1,740 | Ms Mackenzie B. | It serves the community. Culture and community are more important than a parking lot. | May 16, 2019 |
| 1,739 | Ms Isabel C. | This garden serves the community!! | May 16, 2019 |
| 1,738 | Ms Jamie R. | May 16, 2019 | |
| 1,737 | Mr Joseph M. | May 16, 2019 | |
| 1,736 | Mr Phillip M. | Keep the culture alive. | May 15, 2019 |
| 1,735 | Mrs Janine J. | May 15, 2019 | |
| 1,734 | Dr. Magnus H. | May 15, 2019 | |
| 1,733 | Mrs Carol M. | May 15, 2019 | |
| 1,732 | Mr Nolan A. | May 15, 2019 | |
| 1,731 | Mrs Chimae A. | May 15, 2019 | |
| 1,730 | Ms Sarah A. | This is a 25 year old garden that is not only supporting the livelihood of these people, but is also a symbol of culture and community that should be sustained and looked up to as a model for how communities should be cultivated. | May 15, 2019 |
| 1,729 | Ms Clarissa F. | It's a perfect example of what a community space should look like. We should strive to create more spaces like these. You cannot simply move a garden that has been cared for and cultivated for decades. | May 15, 2019 |
| 1,728 | Ms Parker P. | This is a vital resource within the community. | May 09, 2019 |
| 1,727 | Ms Marley S. | May 06, 2019 | |
| 1,726 | Ms Alexandra K. | Because it is a place that adds value to the neighborhood that could never be quantified. It creates a space for people to feel at home and to enjoy the company of their community. It is beautiful and is a true feature of the neighborhood. Getting rid of it would be doing a disservice not only to the community members but to the city as a whole. | Apr 25, 2019 |
| 1,725 | Mx. Em I. | For over 20 years, Beach Flats Community Garden has been a Mesoamerican cultural epicenter and resource to assuage food insecurity in Santa Cruz: as a town with comparably little cultural diversity and the county with the second-highest poverty rate in California, the resources for both issues are overwhelmingly necessary, and can be found right here in Beach Flats. | Apr 24, 2019 |
| 1,724 | Mr Koa K. | So many of the residents of Beach Flats depend on this garden in order to live here. Let's make Santa Cruz as diverse and accepting as we are made out to be. | Apr 17, 2019 |
| 1,723 | Ms Michaela N. | The garden is a place for people to gather, build friendships and community and grow healthy food. Please keep this space open! | Apr 05, 2019 |
| 1,722 | Dr. John G. | Because it celebrates and honors members of this wonderful community and their culture in a way that sustains and builds community! | Apr 03, 2019 |
| 1,721 | Ms Kiera A. | Apr 02, 2019 | |
| 1,720 | Ms Stephanie B. | A true testament of the wills this garden represents hope and ancestry, it is a place of historical significance for the generations that have since grown up woth the garden, with the methodical cultivation and harvesting practices long left behind. It is a place of intergenerational significance. It is a beautiful community gathering space amongst the bustling tourism that surrounds it. | Apr 01, 2019 |
| 1,719 | Mr Jorge C. | Because it is an essential part of the community | Mar 28, 2019 |
| 1,718 | Ms Laurel M. | The garden is a place which provides community for it's residents. | Mar 28, 2019 |
| 1,717 | Ms Celia E. | Berkeley | Mar 28, 2019 |
| 1,716 | Ms M. T. | Community-oriented spaces such as this one that serve the communities around them should be preserved. | Mar 28, 2019 |
| 1,715 | Ms Ariel R. | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| 1,714 | Ms Sara W. | Santa Cruz | Mar 28, 2019 |
| 1,713 | Ms Sam S. | It’s a vital and necessary space for the Beach Flats community | Mar 28, 2019 |
| 1,712 | Ms Whitney F. | It’s is an essential space for community building | Mar 28, 2019 |
| 1,711 | Ms Rebecca L. | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| 1,710 | Ms Lis D. | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| 1,709 | Ms Lauren B. | Local latinx families have tended this community garden for generations. It's a wonderful resource for the Beach Flats community, and provides access to many traditional foods, recipes, and medicines to them. It currently offers much more to the community than it does as a parking lot. | Mar 28, 2019 |
| 1,708 | Ms Robert Z. | It is a valuable and positive place for the community | Mar 28, 2019 |
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To learn more about this issue, read: Sentinel, Seed Culture!, Good Times, Sentinel Op-Ed