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Acknowledgements

EcoFarm Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary, January 2010. Photo by Sarah Rabkin.

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Select Bibliography: Cultivating a Movement, An Oral History Series on Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture on California's Central Coast

557 Photo by Tana Butler

Ableman, Michael, Center for Urban Agriculture, and Bullfrog Films, Inc. Beyond Organic: the Vision of Fairview Gardens. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 2000. videorecording.

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Timeline: Cultivating a Movement, An Oral History Series on Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture on California's Central Coast

556 Camp Joy, Boulder Creek. Photo by Sarah Rabkin

This timeline places the development of organic farming and sustainable agriculture on the Central Coast in the context of historical events and trends in the broader movement.

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Quotation/Use Policy

Blue Moon Organics on the EcoFarm Tour. Photo by Sarah Rabkin.

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Irene Reti directs the Regional History Project at the UC Santa Cruz library, where she has worked as an editor and oral historian since 1989. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and a Master’s in History from UCSC, and is also a small press publisher. Reti served as project manager, conducted interviews, edited interview transcripts and wore a variety of other hats.

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Introduction to Cultivating a Movement

"I tell the world that the organic movement started in California, in Santa Cruz County.”

—Congressmember Sam Farr, co-chair of the Congressional Organic Caucus

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María Luz Reyes and Florentino Collazo: La Milpa Organic Farm

Read the full text (PDF) transcript of the oral history with María Luz Reyes and Florentino Collazo in both English and Spanish.

María Luz Reyes and her husband, Florentino Collazo, run La Milpa Organic Farm on land they lease from the Agriculture & Land Based Training Association (ALBA) near Salinas, California. They grow 5.5 acres of mixed vegetable crops that they sell at farmers’ markets in the Salinas, Monterey Bay, and San Francisco Bay areas.