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ajaro Valley nonprofit Farm Discovery at Live Earth is inviting the community to celebrate another successful year of farm-based education for local youth. The organization aims to empower young people and their families to build and sustain healthy food, farming, social and natural systems. Children and teens learn farming skills, develop environmental literacy and build
healthy relationships with their food. During the pandemic, most of Farm Discovery’s programs, projects and field trips were canceled or postponed. But that didn’t stop them from looking for ways to help the community. “A lot of changes happened during Covid,” said Executive Director Jessica Ridgeway. “We had a really booked field trip season for that Spring, but all that shut down. We realized … much
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PRODUCE POWER Farm Discovery’s holiday fundraising
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LEARNING TO GROW Farm Discovery at Live Earth aims to empower youth and families to build
and sustain healthy food, farming, social and natural systems. with crafts for kids, live music, and shopping at nearby stores. On Dec. 16 between 6-8pm, Farm Discovery will hold its annual Holiday Party at Fruition Brewing, 918 East Lake Ave. The community is invited to celebrate with staff and board members, enjoy drinks
and snacks from Hindsight Cafe. Both Hindsight and Fruition will be donating a portion of proceeds to the SCG campaign. Ridgeway said that being able to connect with other local nonprofits is part of the appeal of SCG. “We like to lift up others who we
think are doing important things,” she said. “For us, it’s just as much about supporting other organizations as it is raising money for our own.” For information, visit farmdiscovery.org and santacruzgives.org.
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of the community still had to work, and needed someone to care for kids during distance learning.” The group hosted more than 400 families for farm walks and created the Covid-safe “Summer Farm Care” program that extended into 2021 when students went back to school. Farm Care offered small groups of children ages 5-12 from working families the opportunity to spend a day at Live Earth in Watsonville. “It’s about serving kids who need the most support,” Ridgeway said. “Whether that be social, emotional or academic. [The program] had them on the farm, around kids in a safe environment, with adult supervision … and they could experience all the things we usually do.” In addition to the summer program, in May 2020 Farm Discovery created a new produce distribution program, partnering with other nonprofits to help feed the county’s most vulnerable populations. Produce that would normally go to waste at Live Earth (after supplying farmers markets and CSA orders) is packed up and sent to four different agencies: Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes, Holy Cross Food Pantry, Encompass Community Services’ Transition Age Youth Program, and Community Health Trust of Pajaro Valley’s Veggie Rx program for diabetes patients. Farm Discovery hopes to expand in 2022 to grow more crops in its education fields which can be donated through the produce program. “We’re actively pulling community members in and asking them what kinds of produce they’d like to have more of,” Ridgeway said. “We’re also hoping our field trips will return soon … this Fall we were unable to bring many students in due to the bus driver shortage.” Farm Discovery is one of 80 nonprofits signed up to participate in Santa Cruz Gives (SCG), a countywide holiday fundraising campaign aiming to create a local network of donors and increase giving through crowdsourcing. “Santa Cruz Gives is a great campaign,” Ridgeway said. “We’ve watched it grow up. It gets better every year.” The organization is also holding fundraising events. On Dec. 5, it hosted an event at the Midtown Parklet in Santa Cruz, complete
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THE MIXING BOWL
MEAT PIES Warm beef, turnip and potato pasties fed miners for centuries
in Cornwall and in California’s Gold Country.
Cornish Miners’ Pasties By SARAH RINGLER
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ining goes back around 4,000 years ago in Cornwall in southwest England. Tin was first mined and later, combined with molten copper, made bronze, a more durable and useful metal. By the end of the 19th century, tin and copper mining in Cornwall faded out due to
foreign competition just in time for the California Gold Rush. Miners flocked there and to other mining areas around the U.S. Every 10 years between 1860 to 1900, 20% of Cornish men migrated out of Cornwall, three times the average for England and Wales. The country lost 250,000 people during that time. Grass Valley, in the Sierra foothills, was one target for the Cornish miners. Gold discovered there
in October 1850 funded two of California’s richest mines, the Empire Mine and the North Star mine. Both required deep, hardrock mining, skills with which the Cornish miners were well experienced. Grass Valley celebrates its Cornish heritage on St. Piran’s Day on March 5 and by still selling Cornish pasties, portable meat pies that miners took with them into the mines. The downtown still maintains the character of a real town as
opposed to so many that have been stripped bare by shopping malls and replaced with antique stores and realty offices geared to out-oftown tourists. My husband Tarmo and I had a nice overnight visit there on our way back from seeing family in Reno. This recipe is mostly authentic although the potatoes would not have been part of the Cornish diet until the end of the 1500s. It was torn out of the newspaper ➝ 7
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Make dough by combining flour, salt and shortening in a medium bowl. With your fingers, rub the ingredients together until you create a coarse mixture. Pour in ice water a little at a time and toss with a fork until dough comes together. Form into a ball, cover and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes. Cut the dough into 16 equalsized pieces and form each into a ball. Flatten each ball into circles that are 1/4-inch thick. Chop the meat, turnips, potatoes and onions into small cubes, about 1/4-inch square. Put all the ingredients in a big bowl and add the chopped parsley, salt and pepper. Put about 1/4 cup of filling into each circle. Brush water around the edges and fold the circle in half pressing them together with a fork. Put onto a cookie sheet. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Before baking the pasties, brush them with the egg and water mixture. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until golden brown.
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