
Santa Cruz celebrates 20 years of Farmers’ Market fun
It’s a Wednesday afternoon and the sound of a drum circle in full effect resonating from downtown can only mean one thing: the one and only Downtown Santa Cruz Farmers’ Market is in full swing. Celebrating its 20th anniversary on April 21 (just in time for Earth Day, naturally), the SCFM has been a staple for an array of vibrant, colorful, fresh produce, captivating scents from various world foods, and community education on every issue from organic gardening to local politics. “After all,” explains Jeff Larkey of Route One Farms, “the market is not just about produce, it’s about the community.”



As the City of Santa Cruz rides the green movement wave, reaching for the horizon of an environmentally conscious and sustainable future, ComForcare Senior Services has emerged as a leader serving those in the twilight of their lives. Tony Walker, president and ceo of ComForcare’s Santa Cruz location, has pioneered the inclusion of the elderly and disabled demographics into this fairly new and developing green industry. Employing environmentally safe strategies and promoting the education of the green movement to his clientele, Walker and ComForcare were recently accredited by the Monterey Bay Area Green Business Program as a certified green business.



UCSC graduate training program is awarded $2.1 million by the NSF