• Photo: Bez Stone
  • Photo: Sonia Phillips
  • Photo: Andy Moskowitz
  • Photo: Heather Hughes
  • Photo: Anja Shandrew
  • Photo: Jordan Burgess
  • Photo: Rooney Farris
  • Photo: Bez Stone
  • Photo: Reed Dahlmeier
  • Photo: Heather Hughes
Photos from some of our early season Santa Cruz garden efforts

Grow Food! Join the
Santa Cruz Garden Effort

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Santa Cruz Garden Effort

Click to see our initial ‘call to arms’ poster

This is a collaborative campaign to help people start growing food, and growing more food, in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With supply lines strained and a faltering economy, we affirm the continued importance of hyperlocal and dispersed food production for human health and security.

Join the network and the conversation on Facebook, and let us know what you need (or what you have to offer) to start growing more food locally. Or just show us what you’ve got growing to inspire others!

A word of caution: With all your gardening efforts and provision of essential needs, it remains crucial that we all continue to follow hygienic protocols and safe social distancing. We are still just at the beginning of this COVID-19 rollercoaster, and many will die. See recommendations and guidelines at Santa Cruz County, State of California, CDC, and WHO.

Santa Cruz Food Growing Resources

Material Resources

Garden / Nursery Stores

San Lorenzo Garden Center
235 River St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Curbside pickup available, 831-423-0223
Note: “You can also email your order for curbside pick up: slgcorders@gmail.com . Be as detailed as possible (sizes and varieties) and list if you want substitutions or not. They will then call you, confirm things, and you can pay with a CC on the phone. When you get there you can call them and say what car you drive and they will bring it out. If you are immunocompromised this is def the way to do it.”

DIG Gardens Aptos
7765 Soquel Dr # A, Aptos, CA 95003
Curbside pickup available, call (831) 688-7011

Mountain Feed & Farm Supply
9550 Highway 9, Ben Lomond, California 95005
No walk through shopping, pickup available 831 336-8876

Soil/Compost Products

Aptos Landscape Supply
5025 Freedom Blvd, Aptos, CA 95003
Bulk potting mixes and composts (831) 688-6211

Central Home Supply
Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley
Bulk mushroom compost. SC: 831-201-6167 SV: 831-201-6178

Educational Resources