The Goal:
Right now I am at the University of Santa Cruz attending a course in Agroecology, which I am hoping will give me some guidance for my future path in life. I don't expect to just magically figure it all out, but I'm hoping to gather some ideas.
I have decided to write daily blog posts during my time here in Santa Cruz in order and share my excitement and track my progression of learning throughout the course. I did not bring my computer so that I could be a bit disconnected, so unfortunately I have no pictures to share right now but I will go back later and add photos from each day.
Day 1:
Today we just had an introduction to agroecology and a tour of the gardening and farming endeavors here at the university, but it was an especially exciting first day. Everyone here is incredibly diverse and equally inspiring. We have a soil biologist from India, a farmer from South Africa, an agrochemist from China, and tons of other exciting people from all across the globe.
As of now I still have no idea what I want to pursue, but I'm loving being surrounded by a community of like-minded people. I also love that the emphasis of a student program here on campus as well as my program is the importance of big, delicious, picked-from-the-garden meals enjoyed in the presence of tons of people. In other words the transformative power of food.
What struck me the most today was the beauty and tranquility of the garden and farm spaces, the amazing payoffs of persistent hard work in landscape transformation, and the sweetness of a warm plum plucked straight from the branches of a tree.
Bunnies enjoy plums too.
An enormous poppy outside my building.
The CASFS farm at UC Santa Cruz.
Chard and what seems to be poppies and squash.
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