• Seminar Series | Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods with Liz Carlisle

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Host: Dani Klawitter Living Roots makes the case for putting perennial foods at the center of our farms and our plates, to add flavor and nutrients to our diets while reducing emissions and making our food system more resilient to climate change and economic uncertainty. With contributions from James Beard Award-winning chefs, Macarthur genius grant-winning […]

  • Seminar Series | Is the Farm a Digital Factory?: Labor, Leafy Greens, and the Limits of Automation with Summer Sullivan

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Host:Madeleine Fairbairn Silicon Valley investors, entrepreneurs, and engineers are increasingly interested in agriculture as a site to disrupt and improve upon with their technologies. The nearby Salinas Valley – known as the Salad Bowl of the World – might be considered a “ground zero” for these operations of technological introduction, with some calling it the […]

  • Seminar Series | What you may not know about groundwater management in California with Ruth Langridge

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Host: ENVS Personnel Committee Groundwater is a critical source of California’s water supply. Many basins in critical overdraft are now being managed under the 2015 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) to support state goals of sustainable and equitable management. However, court adjudicated basins that encompass over 8,000 square miles and are home to nearly 11 […]