Feeding My Passion » Santa Cruz http://feedingmypassion.com a happy, young dog, searching Tue, 15 May 2012 00:23:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Day 22v2 – Washed Clean http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-22v2-washed-clean/ http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-22v2-washed-clean/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:00:58 +0000 Colin http://feedingmypassion.com/?p=1253 kamila
Kamila, on the beach near the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.

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]]> http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-22v2-washed-clean/feed/ 1 Day 21v2 – A Direct Line From Field to Table, aka Dao of Nature http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-21v2-a-direct-line-from-field-to-table/ http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-21v2-a-direct-line-from-field-to-table/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:00:10 +0000 Colin http://feedingmypassion.com/?p=1225 Day 2 on Shumei’s Santa Cruz Farm, where they use natural methods to grow produce that is beyond organic, at least organic as it is known and certified now. The friend I visited Santa Cruz with, Kamila, is a part of the Shumei organization, and I was fortunate enough to gain access and make pictures there for one of the four sections of my photo essay that is a kind of visual companion to The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan.

Masaharu looking at the dry erase board and figuring out what to do today during the daily staff and volunteer meeting. Masaharu taking freshly picked Swiss chard to be washed. Washing the mizuna, a Japanese green, for the community supported agriculture boxes. Star holds up a bunch of carrots he's about to wash for the CSA boxes. Rosan distributing the bounty into the CSA boxes. Rie makes a Japanese turnip and vegetable soup with a dashi base, garden salad, and a pasta sauce, all made fruits, vegetables, and legumes grown on Shumei's Santa Cruz farm. Hiroka feeds a nori and rice roll to Yuto, Rie's son. Rie, cooking lunch, and Shogo, Masaharu's son Rie making the garden salad. Masaharu's wife, (name to come), made the shiro (white) miso in the plastic tub, from soybeans they grew on the farm. Rie used the miso to make the salad dressing. What, another picture of the miso? This is homemade miso people, and while it's relatively easy to make, it has to age a full year. Aka (red) miso ages three years. And it's incredibly delicious, and good for you too. I ate it with a spoon! So here's a 3rd picture! It's a little late in the season for carrots, that's why they're a little pale, but they were sweeter than candy and had incredible flavor. Lunch is almost ready and the workers start to circle the bounty. Masaharu, the head farmer at Shumei's Santa Cruz Farm, seems happy and proud to see lunch served, almost all of which came from his fields. Brandon, one of the WOOF'ers (part of an organic and natural farming organization), gets the jungle-gym treatment from Shogo and Hiroka while Yuto looks on. Kamila and Matthew deal with the irrepressible Shogo and Hiroka. Matthew and Shogo Who you callin' scruffy lookin'?

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]]> http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-21v2-a-direct-line-from-field-to-table/feed/ 2 Day 20v2 – Very Nice Campus http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-20v2-very-nice-campus/ http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-20v2-very-nice-campus/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:00:30 +0000 Colin http://feedingmypassion.com/?p=1215 What can I say about UC Santa Cruz? Hmmmm…how about WOW! Definitely not a traditional-looking campus, it’s more like a nature preserve set on a hill above Santa Cruz where someone has sprinkled buildings here and there. I might go back to school someday just so I can go to school here.

You call this a campus? I call it an artistic and intellectual nature preserve. Kamila loves trees. ok, Colin does too. You should have seen the giant redwoods on campus. Nice view, especially since that big, hazy thing that goes out to the horizon is the Pacific Ocean. Sigh. How apropos! Kamila and her son Matthew walking to his dorm past the huge Camellia bushes.

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]]> http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-20v2-very-nice-campus/feed/ 0 Day 19v2 – Beautiful, Naturally! http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-19v2-beautiful-naturally/ http://feedingmypassion.com/2010/04/day-19v2-beautiful-naturally/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:00:17 +0000 Colin http://feedingmypassion.com/?p=1198 The Shumei organization’s natural agriculture farm in Santa Cruz, Calif., part of my photo essay on food.

Star and all of his trees. He gave me 2 figs, very cool. Masaharu talking to Paul Wellies waiting for their wearers. Shogo loves my bread. Hiroka at the window Rosan walking through the greens in the greenhouse. Shogo and Hiroka playing in the rows of strawberries. To put it very mildly, Hiroka loved the camera. Matthew gives Hiroka a boost. This sequence would be great as a little flipbook. 2 3 4 5

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