Farming

The Homeless Garden Project changed its César Chávez Day to a Farmworker Appreciation Day of Service, which it held over the weekend.

Produce growers in the region face reduced demand as people try to avoid cyclosporiasis, and Santa Cruz County releases its annual point-in-time count.

Santa Cruz County activists protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Minneapolis. And, a conference about ecological farming returns to Monterey County.

The multimedia exhibit, at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, has been several years in the making. It’s the product of efforts by Watsonville Filipinos to show a fuller picture of their families’ lives beyond the 1930 anti-Filipino race riots.

Hundreds of millions of agricultural pesticides are sprayed on farm fields in California each year. Those pesticides affect the farm workers who labor in the fields and the communities nearby, where exposure is linked to increases in respiratory diseases, headaches, and even developmental disabilities. Most of the residents in those communities are people of color.

California’s stormy January comes with a pricey cleanup bill, estimated to cost around $1 billion. The central coast was among the hardest hit region in the state.

Even in this area we call the salad bowl of the world, there are food deserts -- areas where fresh produce isn’t easily accessible. Now there’s a new…