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Lockwood, CA · Business
hoodline.com
Sunnyvale Opens 176-Unit Ira D. Hall Square Next to Lawrence Caltrain Stop
Santa Clara County and its partners celebrated the grand opening Tuesday of a 176-unit affordable housing development in Sunnyvale, built within walking distance of the Lawrence Caltrain Station. The community, called Ira D. Hall Square, sits on a 1.26-acre site at 1178 Sonora Court and was developed by MidPen Housing and built by Cahill Contractors.
San José Spotlight
Op-ed: Developers get the profits with Prop. 45 — we pay the price
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When we read a development proposal, we look beyond the property line. What will neighbors hear at night? What will children breathe? Where will the water come from? What happens to the birds and wildlife already living there?. One of us teaches environmental studies...
santacruzworks.org
Joby’s Success in the Monterey Bay Region Didn’t Happen by Accident
By Josh Metz, Executive Director, Monterey Bay DART; Dr. Jackie Cruz, Vice President, Hartnell College and DART Board Member; Julie Edwards, Director, Strategic Educational Options, Pajaro Valley Unified School District; and Dr. Lawrence Samuels, Special Advisor to the UC Santa Cruz Chancellor. Public-private workforce partnerships rarely make headlines. They show...
producebusiness.com
Tom and Steve Church to Receive E.E. “Gene” Harden Lifetime Achievement Award
SALINAS, Calif. — Tom and Steve Church, co-founders of Church Brothers Farms, will receive the E.E. “Gene” Harden Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California (GSA) at its Fall Recognition Event on Friday, October 9. The award recognizes individuals whose contributions have created a lasting legacy for Central Coast agriculture. The brothers will be introduced by longtime partner David Gill, co-founder of True Leaf Farms and last year’s Harden Award recipient.
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santacruzworks.org
Kharros Now Serves Both Sides of the Government Market, and Wants Introductions
Bootstrapped and cash-flow positive, Santa Cruz startup Kharros is now listed on the Pentagon's CDAO marketplace and running an autonomous BD engine for about 30 government-focused companies. Selling to the government is slow. Buying for the government is slow too. Kharros is building for both sides of that problem, and...
andnowuknow.com
Organic Grower Summit Announces Former Grower of the Year (2019) Thaddeus Barsotti as 2026 Keynote; Matt Jungmann Shares
MONTEREY, CA - The Organic Grower Summit (OGS), presented by Farm Progress, is proud to announce Thaddeus Barsotti, founder of Capay Organic and former Grower of the Year, as the opening keynote speaker for OGS26, taking place Dec. 2-3, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel & Spa in Monterey, California.
andnowuknow.com
Tom and Steve Church to Receive E.E. “Gene” Harden Lifetime Achievement Award; Tom and Steve Church Comment
SALINAS, CA - Tom and Steve Church, co-founders of Church Brothers Farms, will receive the E.E. "Gene" Harden Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California (GSA) at its Fall Recognition Event on Friday, October 9. The award recognizes individuals whose contributions have created a lasting legacy for Central Coast agriculture. The brothers will be introduced by longtime partner David Gill, co-founder of True Leaf Farms and last year's Harden Award recipient.
lhsepic.com
Safeway on Bollinger closes after 57 years
Following more than five decades of operation, the Safeway on Bollinger Road is set to close Nov. 13. The store, which opened in September 1969, is conveniently located near Lynbrook High School, Miller Middle School and Hyde Middle School and is regularly visited by students and staff in the community.
People
The Associated Press
Strawberry farmer hopes steam holds the key to healthy soil and a better crop
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Long-time strawberry farmer Rod Koda has rows of plants on his California farm that are still producing fruit well after the harvest would typically end. The fields brimming with green near the Pacific Coast have produced nearly twice the amount of organic strawberries this year as other plots thanks to steam, he said. The bountiful plots were treated with steam before Koda planted his organic strawberries as part of a project aimed at finding an alternative to chemical fumigants used to kill soil-borne diseases and weeds. “It's a very noticeable difference,” Koda said. Steam has been used for decades in greenhouses, and researchers in California have been working to adapt the technology to the fields where strawberries, one of the state's key crops, are grown near the Pacific Coast. It’s part of a broader push to help organic farmers become more productive and reduce the use of chemicals that environmental advocates say pose a health risk to farmworkers and those who live near the fields. Rick Tomlinson, president of the California Strawberry Commission, said researchers have been working on steam for more than a decade and are tinkering with the technology so it can be applied
unearththevoyage.com
Ride Out to the Fields and Pick Your Own Strawberries Right Off the Vine at Swanton Berry Farm Near Davenport, California
Some of the best food stops in California look like nothing special from the road, just a few cars, a hand-painted sign, and a field rolling toward the ocean. Then you take one bite of a strawberry still warm from the sun and suddenly your whole day changes. This little...
benitolink.com
San Juan Oaks housing development keeps moving forward as resort turns 30
While San Juan Oaks Golf Club is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, a housing development being led by Third Millennium Partners is continuing to make progress. According to Third Millennium Partners CEO Dustin Bogue, his group purchased the golf course and housing development in 2015, recognizing the two concerns were “inexplicably intertwined.” It made sense, Bogue said, to combine the properties for water conservation, and it would be easy to connect homeowners with services at the golf course.
growingupsc.com
A Place for Teachers to Call Home
Over the past decade, 127 teachers left Santa Cruz City Schools because they couldn’t afford to live in the county, and 95% of job offers were declined for the same reason, according to the district. To alleviate the cost-of-living burden on local teachers and improve retention rates, Santa Cruz...