{"id":1625,"date":"2014-07-12T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2014-07-13T02:16:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:16:41","slug":"manresa-fire-love-apple-farm-repercussions-such-as-produce-available-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Manresa fire, & Love Apple Farms repercussions such as produce available to public"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Produce<\/a>

Produce at Love Apple Farms<\/p><\/div>\n

There was a serious fire at the Michelin-star-winning Los Gatos restaurant Manresa<\/a> on Monday, and it will be closed for a few months. The restaurant\u2019s closure strongly affects Love Apple Farms<\/a>, as Cynthia Sandberg and her biodynamic farm have served as Manresa\u2019s exclusive kitchen garden for the last few years. Sandberg wishes Manresa a speedy recovery. \u201cWe look forward to working with them through this difficult period and beyond,\u201d she commented.<\/p>\n

With the restaurant and and chef\/owner David Kinch unable to use Love Apple\u2019s extraordinary produce for the time being, Sandberg is offering the local community a couple rare opportunities.<\/p>\n

For years, fans of Love Apple have been asking Sandberg to offer a CSA (also known as Community Supported Agriculture, or in layman\u2019s terms, a weekly farm-fresh produce box). Now, due to unexpected circumstances, some actually have that chance. If you\u2019re reading this and you haven\u2019t ordered one yet, it\u2019s too late\u2014the original four-week CSA offer was posted on Facebook and Twitter on Tuesday and sold out within hours. Two more sets of dates were added, and sold out just as fast. But you can still partake of Love Apple produce another way during Manresa\u2019s closure: the farm has opened an on-site produce stand. Although Love Apple became famous for its dozens of varieties of heirloom tomatoes, the farm actually grows many vegetables and fruits, plus herbs and edible flowers.<\/p>\n

The stand is now open Wednesdays from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturdays & Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.\u00a0 There will be rotating items like flower bouquets, herb and veggie starts, tomatoes when they come ripe, sorrel, chard, mustards, beans, eggplant, melons, radishes, carrots, turnips, squash, basil, micro-greens, peppers, tomatillos, and cape gooseberries. Plus farm-made jams and pickles, and gardening items like soils, fertilizers, and supplies.<\/p>\n

Another way you can support the farm\u2014and simultaneously learn and have fun\u2014is to participate in this Sunday\u2019s HOW-Days Garden Skills event, which costs $89.\u00a0 On July 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. the farm will have 3 classrooms going, with rotating classes all day long. Sandberg encourages people to pre-register, but individuals can also show up and register on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Participants can choose to attend up to seven workshops. Each is 45 minutes long, to give folks the chance to try out \u201cmini-classes\u201d and see if they want to take a longer version of certain ones in the future (they\u2019re all part of the farm\u2019s standard curriculum).<\/p>\n

HOW stands for Homestead Options Workshop; visit this url for more information: http:\/\/www.growbetterveggies.com\/growbetterveggies\/2014\/04\/howw2012.html.<\/p>\n

Classes include<\/strong>:
\n\u2022 Intro to Organic Gardening
\n\u2022 Tomato Masters
\n\u2022 Drip Irrigation
\n\u2022 Container Vegetable Gardening
\n\u2022 Propagating Perennials
\n\u2022 Compost
\n\u2022 Growing Berries
\n\u2022 Fruit Trees
\n\u2022 Gopher Trapping
\n\u2022 Bee Keeping
\n\u2022 Chicken Keeping
\n\u2022 Urban Rabbit Keeping
\n\u2022 Vegetable Garden Design
\n\u2022 Winter Vegetable Gardening
\n\u2022 Micro-Greens<\/p>\n

August 24 is the second of this year\u2019s HOW-Days. The August workshop also costs $89 and centers on kitchen skills.<\/p>\n

Topics include:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Canning
\n\u2022 Pickling
\n\u2022 Cheese Making
\n\u2022 Bread Making
\n\u2022 Pasta Making
\n\u2022 Home Brewing
\n\u2022 Sprouting
\n\u2022 Ice Cream Making
\n\u2022 Jam Making
\n\u2022 Sauerkraut
\n\u2022 Gluten-Free Cooking
\n\u2022 Kimchi
\n\u2022 Kombucha<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for all upcoming classes that Love Apple offers.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re on Twitter, follow me @santacruzfoodie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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