Santa Cruz Permaculture is a small family farm committed to growing the most delicious, nutritious, high quality organic fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs. While the land has been farmed organically for over 100 years, we are transitioning to a regenerative, organic, no-till, mixed vegetable, flower, fruit, herb, and agroforestry farm with a strong emphasis on education. We have over 1,000 alumni from our programs, and our farm aims to push the limits on regenerative agriculture to increase biodiversity, resilience, and community.
We’re delighted to have such an incredibly beautiful and wild space to host our permaculture courses and farm events. Our students are welcome to camp during the weekends of their course and enjoy the peace and quiet, stargazing, community campfires, and the sound of the seals from nearby Ano Nuevo Island.
We are a 26 acre regenerative organic farm 20 minutes north of Santa Cruz on the Pacific coast. We grow delicious and nutritious foods – over 80 crops – for our U-Pick, farm stand, farmers markets, online shop, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, and caterers, restaurants and wholesale customers. The farm has 5 acres of mixed vegetables, flowers, and herbs, 2 acres of blackberries, 1/3 acre of kiwis, and 1 acre of basketry willows, and is the site for our many permaculture courses. We are establishing an extensive food forest orchard and watershed regeneration demonstration. We have an ocean view and access to Ano Nuevo Creek. We can see the ocean from our farm and it is a 10 minute walk to the sands of the state park beach.
