AgTourism

During the growing season we offer food boxes, Farmer's Markets, work parties, and outdoor events.

Educational and hands-on field trips for ag, living history, and survival workshops.

Farm Discovery at Live Earth engages kids and families with seasonal, organic, and local food systems for their bodies, the environment and their communities.

Food, farming and nature exist in complex, interconnected socio-cultural, economic and ecological systems. Farm Discovery empowers kids and families to make these systems regenerative and healing for individuals, communities, and the natural world.

Farm Discovery’s vision is growing healthy relationships through food, farming and nature.

Our farm, Live Earth Farm (LEF), established in 1996, is a 150 acre diversified, organic, family farm overlooking the Pajaro Valley in the Santa Cruz area of California. LEF runs a year round CSA, growing over 50 different fruits and vegetables surrounded by a native landscape of redwoods and oak woodland. LEF’s produce is directly marketed through local farmer’s markets, restaurants, a thriving web store, and a weekly CSA program. Education has always been a part of Live Earth Farm since its beginning, but in 2007 a separate non-profit entity, Farm Discovery was formally established to compliment and expand the educational programs at Live Earth Farm. We now host more than 2000 children on the farm each year for engaging farm-based, hands-on learning opportunities in a variety of formats.

- Farm Discovery offers educational programs that inspire youth and families to transform their relationship to food, farming and nature through 9 different farm-based education programs for all ages.
- We steward our working farm and its wild spaces as an environmentally and economically viable piece of the food system and a learning space.
- We collaborate with community partners to learn from each other and extend our collective impact in the community.

Guests can book overnight stays on the property. There are walking trails and close to 100 farm animals that love attention; many are great at interacting with guests. I can host meetings, offsites, or retreats for small to medium size groups. Tours upon request. Petting zoo. Large organic garden.

Vegetables from the garden at harvest time.

You pick tulips in early spring, sunflowers in summer, Baby Animal Days in spring, pumpkin patch in the fall.

Pumpkins, tulips, sunflowers - all seasonal

160 acre eco-friendly preserve open year round offering tours, shaded picnic areas, self guided walking tours and special events. Visit our hard cider and brandy tasting bar, tour the double copper-pot distillery, learn about apple fermentation and watch the seasonal crush. We are certified organic.

Organic and delicious hard ciders and apple brandy along with fruit infused vodkas are for sale in our unique gift shop that offers a variety of goods including local artisans crafts.