Beginning March 20th if you buy something in Santa Cruz County, you’ll need to bring your own bag, or be ready to pay 10-cents for a paper bag. The ban on single use plastic bags affects all businesses in the unincorporated areas of the county except restaurants. But there is an effort underway to include them in the ban.
As regulations tighten on pesticide use, and the buffer between urban areas and farmland shrinks, strawberry farmers are searching for alternatives to fumigants.