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Women GROW FOOD

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For the past decade, the Women Grow Food program was the beating heart of the Deep Dirt Farm property. This program and many years of coordinated on-site volunteer work were guided by permaculture practitioner Kate Tirion, a graduate of the UC Santa Cruz Farm Program. Each year, adult women from east Santa Cruz County engaged in hands-on learning as they gardened and grew friendships.

Borderlands Restoration Network is working on expanding programming opportunities at the Borderlands Earth Care Center (BECC). As we grow the capacity of the education program, the budding We Grow Food program will allow more community members to participate in gardening, composting, seed and food harvesting, planting, shared learning, skills training, and relationship-building through projects and workshops on-site.

PERMACULTURE

​Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature with protracted and thoughtful observation rather than hurried and thoughtless labor by looking at plants and animals in all their functions rather than treating any area as a single product system.

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ABOUT

Cheridyn Egan serves as the Food Production Program Coordinator, ably guiding the efforts of WGF participants to tend to food crops and manage the gardens. Recently, expanding our gardens to include an additional wild desert foods garden.

Join this group of lively, fun, and dedicated women as we learn to grow and harvest fresh, organic garden herbs and vegetables! ​
 

  • Learn how to grow organic herbs and vegetables in the desert.

  • Learn about how to grow wild desert foods.

  • Learn how to build structures that support farming.

  • Learn about techniques that conserve water in the garden.

  • Learn about integrating human & wildlife habitat from a master teacher.

  • Take home freshly harvested organic vegetables that you helped produce!


Participants generally harvest more than $50 worth of organic groceries a month and love to share recipes.

HOW TO JOIN

Women Grow Food is accepting program participants now through the end of November. We are currently preparing garden beds and greenhouses for fall planting, as well as growing our fall and winter crop seedlings.

WGF participants meet every Friday from 7AM - 11AM and can choose the number of hours they would like to work. 

​Dues: Suggested donation of $50 per month, sliding fee scale available starting at $5 per month.

Contact wgf@borderlandsrestoration.org for more information or to sign-up. 

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