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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.

12/07/2024

Common Roots Farm | December 2024 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/82053c1afa22/common-roots-farm-december-2024-newsletter
Read our holiday greetings, meet our new Development Director Claudia, become a Common Roots Farm member, and say farewell to Lily.

12/03/2024

If you haven't yet had the chance to join our first-ever Common Roots Farm membership program, we hope you might consider doing so today on Giving Tuesday! Giving Tuesday is a global movement where people are encouraged to support their favorite non-profit organizations. In the US, it always takes place the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. We would love it if you choose to support Common Roots Farm! Please click here to become a member or to give a one-off donation: https://commonrootsfarm.org/donate

11/28/2024

Wishing all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving from everyone here at the farm!
* Conversation overheard this morning at the chicken coop: “it’s the day we are thankful we aren’t turkeys”😉

11/19/2024

We are very excited to launch our new Common Roots Farm Membership Program!

Because of incredible community support, we have become a successful market farm offering a variety of activities intended to enrich life for people with disabilities. We now produce over 20 food crops, 25 varieties of cut flowers, and farm fresh eggs on our wheelchair accessible farm.

Our membership program will help us continue to grow and expand our missions.

We are committed to meeting the increasing demand from Day Programs and Post-secondary Education sites to serve young adults who visit weekly to help feed our animals, tend our accessible garden, learn job skills, and spend time in nature.

In addition, we want to host more seasonal and year-round activities to support adults with intellectual/ developmental disabilities.

We’ll keep farming, of course, but there’s also a lot of interest from our farmers with disabilities in expanding into cooking, arts and crafts classes, music concerts, and more.

Visit www.commonrootsfarm.org/donate to learn more and join our membership program!

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!!

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!

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.

10/04/2024

Just some scenes from the past week on the farm 😊

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!

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!

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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301 Golf Club
Santa Cruz, CA
95060

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http://www.commonrootsfarm.org/

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We are very excited to launch our new Common Roots Farm Membership Program! Because of incredible community support, we have become a successful market farm offering a variety of activities intended to enrich life for people with disabilities. We now produce over 20 food crops, 25 varieties of cut flowers, and farm fresh eggs on our wheelchair accessible farm. Our membership program will help us continue to grow and expand our missions. We are committed to meeting the increasing demand from Day Programs and Post-secondary Education sites to serve young adults who visit weekly to help feed our animals, tend our accessible garden, learn job skills, and spend time in nature. In addition, we want to host more seasonal and year-round activities to support adults with intellectual/ developmental disabilities. We’ll keep farming, of course, but there’s also a lot of interest from our farmers with disabilities in expanding into cooking, arts and crafts classes, music concerts, and more. Visit www.commonrootsfarm.org/donate to learn more and join our membership program!

Everyone has some cabin fever ‘round here with all the rains. Summer could not interest her friends in a game of chase, though!

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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!