AgTourism

Wine Tasting, apple picking, picnic area

Wine, Apples, Bakery goods

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.

We provide guided tours where people will experience the joy of holding a baby goat as well as feeding and milking a goat. People will also take a walk around the farm and learn of our sustainable practices and the diversity of our products.

Depending on the time of year, we will sell honey, olive oil, cheese, flowers and fruits.

We have a lavender labyrinth and pavilion area for weddings, parties, picnics, and other events. We do agricultural tours, highlighting regenerative organic agriculture practices, pollinators and planting for pollinators, and tips on growing lavender.

Organic lavender products (sachets, bundles, oil, hydrosol), honey, organic cut flowers, trees, nursery plants, produce, and eggs.

tours, exhibits,demonstrations, events, children's activities, raffle, Q & A. workshop.

Fully detailed bonsai, including indoor varieties, pre-bonsai, planting materials and tools, detailing items, books, art gallery with viewing stones and misc. Asian art.

Camping and lodging. 2 campsites, 3 rooms in craftsman home, cottage bedrooms

Orchard nuts, rose jams and other products, wild pine nuts, eggs, stone fruit