Audience: General Public
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Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm
Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the…
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Visiting Summer-Only Student Registration Open
Anyone can take classes at UC Santa Cruz during Summer Session! Visiting students—including those from other colleges, universities, or the community—must register before enrolling. Registration is now open through July. Once registered, you can enroll in online or in-person courses, earning UC credits that transfer to your home institution. Explore hundreds of summer courses and…
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Arboretum Members – Join us for Early Bird Saturday
We offer special sunrise hours for our members and volunteers on the third Saturday of each month, as weather permits. Opening time is 7 a.m. Please bring your membership card for check-in at the front gate. Early mornings are a wonderful time in our gardens, ideal for photography, birding, and quiet enjoyment of nature. If…
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First Saturday: Free Tour
Around the World in 60-90 Minutes! On the first Saturday of each month, the Arboretum offers a docent or staff-led tour of the Arboretum. Sometimes you will see New Zealand, South Africa, California, and Australia. Sometimes you might see combinations of several gardens or the developing World Conifer Collection or Rare Fruit Garden. Tour length…
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Someone Always Dies (SAD): An Improv Comedy Show
Someone Always Dies (SAD) is UC Santa Cruz’s premier long-form improv team.
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Artist Talk for “Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective”
Join Doyle Foreman for a talk with the artist as part of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery’s fall exhibition, Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective, which celebrates the career of metal sculptor and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Doyle Foreman.
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Weekly Farmstand
The Center for Agroecology’s Farmstand is open to all and features organic vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers grown at the UCSC Farm and Alan Chadwick Garden. Find the Farmstand at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn near the base of campus every Thursday from 12:30 to 6:30pm, beginning July 3rd and continuing through September 25th, 2025.…