RIC Training

We all went to Berkeley to Berkeley Youth Alternative for a
training for the Rooted In Community Conference and to meet
other Bay Area groups.

Health Blast Comics

Health Blast Comics 08

See what was created at the Health Blast. Click to see album.

Strawberry Health Blast Video Clips

What do u eat?

We asked youth "What they eat" at the Spring Strawberry Health Blast.

What would you serve?

At the Strawberry Health Blast we asked "What would you serve for school lunch?"

BLUEBERRIES

Jim Leap gave us a tour of the blueberry patch and told us about the fruit. We learned that these berries are hard to grow in Santa Cruz because the winters are too warm. At the UCSC farm they are doing trials of different varieties to find plants that do well in this climate.

Seems like they found a few good varieties because
our blueberry muffins were delicious!

Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School

The Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School came for a field trip to FoodWhat?! to do some IPM (integrated pest management) study and see the farm

Fruit Thinning

We learned to thin the baby fruit off of the apple trees so that the trees can focus their energy on growing bigger more flavorful fruits rather than dispersing all of their growing power to lots of fruit.

BEES