Common Roots Farm

Common Roots Farm

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At Common Roots Farm, people with and without disabilities can participate on our urban farm, taking care of plants and animals, and creating friendships with one another that sustain everyone. We grow a variety of vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers while providing farm skills training, internships, environmental and gardening education and micro-enterprise opportunities on approximately four acres right in the heart of Santa Cruz, CA.

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 11/02/2024

Common Roots Farm | November 2024 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/c280061b5d7f/common-roots-farm-november-2024-newsletter
Learn what makes Common Roots Farm thankful: visits from Aggie, a new bench made of cob, and giving Blooms of Thanks.

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween from the farm!

10/30/2024

Last of the 2024 season’s blooms ready to become the final Blooms of Thanks. Great season for flowers. Thanks to our local buyers, CSA customers, flower volunteers, Farmer Nina, and farmers with disabilities who made bouquets and bunches all season. The bees thank you, too!!

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 10/25/2024

Beautiful fall day, beautiful flowers to bring home, beautiful people connecting with the farm and one another. Doesn't get any better than this!

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 10/05/2024

Common Roots Farm | October 2024 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/d93078102a44/common-roots-farm-october-2024-newsletter
Read about our successful Family Fun Day, a family who helped make it a success, and a volunteer who makes crates that we sell for our CSA participants.

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 10/04/2024

Just some scenes from the past week on the farm 😊

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 10/02/2024

Well, despite this week’s heat, we are preparing our fields for fall and winter. Our last week of CSA is abundant!

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 09/15/2024

So great to see so many of our community out on the farm yesterday! Family Fun Day was a hit, thanks to all of you who attended, bought tickets to allow others to attend, volunteered, or sponsored us. We are grateful for a place where we can all have fun, grow good food, be surrounded by beautiful flowers, and be together. Farmer Nina, your field looked fantastic!

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 09/07/2024

Common Roots Farm | September 2024 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/c9b3a3ffb9eb/common-roots-farm-september-2024-newsletter
Read a story about "magic" strawberries from a CSA customer. Get your tickets for Family Fun Day September 14th. Blooms of Thanks for special education staff, local business owners, and Capitola Coast Lions Club members.

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 09/02/2024

Everyone is pitching in to make Common Roots ready for our Family Fun Day on September 14th. W**d patrol particularly industrious today, dispatching bindweed in record time! 😆

08/28/2024

Prepping for the big day! Hope you will come spend a few hours on the farm on Saturday, September 14th in support of Common Roots Farm and our farmers with intellectual/developmental disabilities who are deadheading, planting and pruning to spiff the place up for our guests! Get tix here: https://commonrootsfarm.org/familyfunday

08/23/2024

Lots of beautiful filler flowers donated by Common Roots Farm today to our friends at the Monterey Bay Dahlia Society. Mutual admiration all around! Dahlia show this weekend at the Capitola Mall. Check it out! You won't be sorry!

08/19/2024

Live music and dancing and pony rides, oh my! Please get your tickets now for Common Roots Farm's Family Fun Day-Saturday, September 14th from 1-4pm. Support opportunities for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities to contribute to their community. It's gonna be fun!!

Photos | Common Roots farm in Santa Cruz works with people who have autism, cerebral palsy, other health challenges 08/15/2024

Thank you to the Sentinel and Shmuel Thaler for featuring our Blooms of Thanks program in today's paper. Farmer Nina rocks the farm's flower production! This program is funded by the Palo Alto Medical Group's Foundation.

Photos | Common Roots farm in Santa Cruz works with people who have autism, cerebral palsy, other health challenges Founded in 2016, Common Roots is 4.5-acre urban farm on Golf Club Drive in Santa Cruz that works with people who have autism, cerebral palsy and other health challenges.

08/14/2024

Still a few spots left for Cooking with Carly with a new session beginning on Friday. Come join us for a farm-based cooking class where you harvest the ingredients yourself!

08/08/2024

Cooking with Carly every Friday at Common Roots. We are so fortunate to have Carly, who combines her love of farming and growing food with her knowledge about nutrition. Thanks, Helpers Community, for our awesome kitchen!

08/06/2024

Come see these beauties in person during our upcoming Family Fun Day. Save September 14 from 1-4 for live music, pony rides for the kids, a scavenger hunt and more.

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 08/03/2024

Common Roots Farm | August 2024 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/1689a12cd62b/common-roots-farm-march-2024-newsletter-6412926
Family Fun Day September 14th, our busy Seed to Salad garden, and physicians from the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group help in many ways.

The Direct Care Worker and Family Caregiver Initiative 07/21/2024

Common Roots's farmers with disabilities reply upon support, either from family caregivers or direct care staff. These people play a critical role in our society, as well as in our mission to include people of all abilities in our farming endeavor. Together for Care has a new policy brief about the great need to better support these caregivers. Please consider taking a look:

The Direct Care Worker and Family Caregiver Initiative A multi-year collaboration between PHI and the National Alliance for Caregiving, the Direct Care Worker and Family Caregiver Initiative serves as a bold step toward strengthening the relationship between these essential caregivers.

07/09/2024

Green beans have made their entrance this week. Yum!

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 07/06/2024

Common Roots Farm | July 2024 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/35dbf48cd498/common-roots-farm-july-2024-newsletter
New greenhouse tables and a new lamb, cooking and art classes all come to the farm.

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 07/04/2024

Remember Your Farmer- from Rodale Institute

"As you eat your pasture-raised barbeque, organic blueberries, and apple pie this fourth of July, think of the farmers who put food on your table.

What is a country without its soil, and what is soil worth without the tender loving care of its farmers, its protectors?"

Common Roots is pleased to be part of a growing movement of small scale agricultural operations working to create a more just and sustainable food system. We are proud to be breaking ground by including people with disabilities in our farming endeavor. Happy 4th to all our supporters and farmer participants who join us in this effort!

Photos from The Arc of the United States's post 06/24/2024
06/23/2024

Come see us on West Cliff at the Lighthouse market today! Beautiful day!

Photos from Common Roots Farm's post 06/22/2024

Summer gives some love to all she meets. And she receives quite a bit, too!

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Our Story

Common Roots Farm (formerly Costanoa Commons) is a partnership of families coming together to create an organic farm in the city of Santa Cruz, CA, where people with disabilities and others grow healthy food and build community. By producing organic food and living in a more sustainable way, we can make a difference. At Common Roots Farm we care for plants, animals, and one another. We grow for life.

Our founding families recognize the opportunities for community building that can take place on an urban farm. Our vision includes establishing employment, social, educational and recreational opportunities that enrich lives and integrate adults with disabilities into the wider community.

Our dream includes creating:

• A community organic farm in an urban environment
• Hydroponic and aquaponic components offering additional skills training and jobs
• Building a barn/community center offering a variety of activities daily
• Universal design for accessibility, green building features
• Easy access to urban life, continuing education, recreation, and choice!

Videos (show all)

Everyone has some cabin fever ‘round here with all the rains.  Summer could not interest her friends in a game of chase,...
Lambs 2022
Common Roots Farm's Board, staff and founders wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving holiday.  We are so grateful for th...
Yahoo!  The new shade structure just arrived! Farmer Geoff found a creative way to get it through the trestle and up the...
The sheep, along with Mr. Blueford, and all of us here at the farm, wish you a happy Earth Day!  We thank and honor thos...
What does excitement look like on the farm?  A visit from our Master gardener and Master composter friend, Otis, and his...
Lots of great help from our friends and partner families, today.  The spring clean up continues in preparation for the c...
Mornings on the farm

Address


301 Golf Club
Santa Cruz, CA
95060

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