Past Farm Events at Mariquita Farm

Wed July 26th, 2006 Andy lectures at the Codiga House Watsonville Andy was invited to give a talk at the Codiga Center and Museum. The Codiga Center and Museum is at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds and it's one of California's newest and most vital agricultural history museums. Andy's not old enough to be stuffed and installed in the museum yet, but he has been around for a while. He talked about the development of the salad mix industry, and his own "salad days' before mesclun became another commodity in a plastic bag. Andy talks about Agriculture and anything else attendees want to ask him... Saturday May 13th 2006 home lecture in San Francisco Picnic at the Redmond House in Watsonville Sunday, May 21st 3:00 pm 2006 Baby Goat Day at Mariquita Farm March 18th, 2005
Kids Day at High Ground Organics in Watsonville May 14th 4th Annual Globe Radicchio Dinner First Ever Desiree-Mariquita Farm Dinner Soup in the Cauldron Cooking Class and Meal at Mariquita Farm with Jessica Prentice of Stirring the Cauldron Tomato Upick Days at Hollister Pumpkin Upick in Watsonville	Pet the Goat Day, 7 photos!
CSA Potluck! July 17th, 2004 Saturday, 5pm at High Ground Organics in Watsonville. What a great time we all had! a Beautiful sunny late afternoon, the farmers actually sitting around together with a few csa members eating and chatting... I was so relaxed I forgot to bring my camera. Next time I'll take photos! this is a photo of calendula at High Ground Organics.
Don Rogelio Benefit Dinner July 3rd, 2004 at the Mariquita home ranch in Watsonville It was a great success! Click here for photos and details.
Kids Day at High Ground Organics in Watsonville May 15th, 2004 For a photo essay that Jeanne put together of the day, click here
Fava Bean Upick Day! at Mariquita Farm in Hollister Saturday, May 8th. 1pm -6pm. Directions to our Hollister Ranch here. We will be grilling the favas this year, you can come and pick favas for home and or pick a few and toss them on the grill and eat right there.
Winter Abundance Dinner 2004 at Globe in San Francisco. Click here to see more details including the menu and photos.	chef Joseph Mazare holds up Dandelion Bucatini at the Winter Abundance Dinner.
Liz and Katherine of Engfer Pizza Works. A GREAT pizza parlour near the sea in Santa Cruz.	CSA Pizza Night at Engfer Pizza Works in Santa Cruz. Tuesday, March 23rd from 4-6pm. CSA members and other interested folks can come eat pizzas made with produce from our farms. Nettle pizza? Fresh marjoram? Roasted beet pizza? sauteed green garlic, roasted fennel... There are many possibilities. It's possible that children will get to help make their own... We're still working on the details. Call Katie to let her know you plan to attend so we have an idea of numbers, so far we're not taking 'official' reservations.... 831.786.0625. We hope to repeat this event in the summer for the eggplant/pepper/tomato crowd!
Spring Open House March 13th, 2004 1-4 PM in Hollister. Andy answered questions and toured folks around the farm, children got muddy and played lots of hide and go seek in the fava bean cover crop. Special bonus: Greg the Beekeeper was there tending his bees and answering questions. The bees love the warm weather!	(disclaimer: these berries were photographed last season, ours will be ready in April sometime)
Sept. 6th Herbs and Verbs Dinner and Reading in SF: This was a great dinner prepared by Jessica Prentice of Stirring the Cauldron. She read her prose and so did Andy; Stephen Kopel read some of his poetry too. It was a sold out event that the lucky attendees enjoyed very much. Click here to see the menu. August 30 tomato upick. The canners showed up and picked lots of tomatoes. Some children, including our own farmer kids, got dirty. August 10th Field Farm Dinner at High Ground Organics with Lynn Sheehan cooking. She's from Sand Rock Farm and is a great chef.
POTATO UPICK-NIC July 19th Hollister, Mariquita Farm   We dug potatoes, picked elderberries, shared food, and watched the wild birds in the pond next to the farm.
May 31st Julia gave a cooking demo for a Cooking on the Farm demo at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. She made fried rice with many different seasonal vegetables.
May 30th Alianza School Field Trip to High Ground Organics Julia of Mariquita and Steve of High Ground gave a tour of High Ground Organics to a group of 55 4th and 5th graders from Alianza Charter School. It's a dual immersion school in Spanish and English, so Julia gave part of the tour in Spanish and Steve gave part in English. The students enjoyed seeing the owl boxes, native plants in the hedgerow, identifying the vegetables with their plants, picking sweet peas and of course picking strawberries.         May 17th 2003 Kids Day at High Ground Organics in Watsonville This free event was attended by over 30 families. Kids very much liked the mud!! They also made scarecrows, searched for over 25 types of birds, played bug bingo, and matched the vegetables with the plants.	We will have more photos up and completely update this page by Tuesday, June 10th. Thanks for your patience. -Julia
Fava Bean Upick Day at Mariquita Farm May 11th, 2003 Favas, Artichokes, and Mud more photos here
May 26th Farm Field Dinner with Chef Joseph Manzare of Globe Restaurant in San Francisco and Josh Jensen of Calera Winery benefitting Literacy for Environmental Justice click on images for the larger ones

May 31, Saturday: U-Pick Strawberry Day at High Ground Organics (we may have future strawberry upicks for the public, to find out check back here or even better get onto our newsletter.) *************************

2001 Tomato Upick at Mariquita Farm

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2002 Events

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