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Apprenticeship Training Program
Alan Chadwick came to University of CA at Santa Cruz to grow his garden in 1967, the same year Martin Luther King gave his Beyond Vietnam speech at Riverside Church… Read more »
Yellow Star Thistle
Is there something good about yellow star thistle? Ask a beekeeper and the answer will be yes! I’ve driven around “star thistle country”, looking and sniffing the air for lush… Read more »
Summertime and the Livin’ is Easy…
Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Fruit is ripening, and the feeling is high. We’re so rich with abundance and good fortune, give thanks little baby, my oh my. That… Read more »
In From the Garden & Thoughts on Yoga
This season at Camp Joy several of us have been taking Yoga classes. It’s good to stretch and concentrate on balanced body postures, mindfulness and breath. Helps create balance and… Read more »
Reminiscences from Camp Joy Apprentice Maria Jackson, 2016-2019
Camp Joy means a family away from my family. It means a place where I can feel at home– be surrounded by good people, fabulous food, beauty, and love. It… Read more »
Reminiscences from Camp Joy Apprentice Steve Sprinkel, 1972-1975
Big Garden Considering how grateful I am for my experience at Camp Joy is like expecting a wave to explain how it feels about the wind. I could write a… Read more »
Flower Gardening Tips
There is still time to plant sweet peas and hardy spring blooming annuals like poppies, cornflowers, larkspur, agrostemma, godetia and California wildflower varieties that like to make growth before the… Read more »
Early Spring Gardening Tips
Nights are really cold, rainy and wintery weather is definitely still with us, but you can tell the days are getting longer. Plum and flowering quince are blooming or budding… Read more »
Water Becoming
Water is only change Still depth in a mountain pool, now a tumble of light and movement slipping over the granite edge crashing downward, blown sideways, making its own weather… Read more »
Vegetable Solace
I am a home gardener in exile, far from my native soil,. I farm in one huge planter long enough to inter both parents end to end, if that were… Read more »