by Travis Hill | Jul 10, 2018 | Agriculture, Environment
We’ve been asked recently what we plan to grow on the land. Our answer to that complex question was naively simple when we started out on this adventure a couple years ago: “We don’t know yet. We want to get to know the land before we make our crop plan.” While this...
by Travis Hill | May 17, 2018 | Agriculture, Environment, Terra Cultura News
We got our first water bill from the Aromas Water District last week. In our first 30 days on the land, we used 220 cubic feet, or 1645.71 gallons of water. That sounds like a lot, but if you do the math, that works out to 54.85 gallons of water used on-site per day...
by Travis Hill | Feb 13, 2018 | Terra Cultura News
This is the second of a multi-part series about Terra Cultura’s experience searching for a place to call home. You’ll be hearing from Rachel in the coming weeks about the next phases in our epic quest for land. Click here to see the first part of this series, written...
by Travis Hill | Aug 21, 2017 | Agriculture, Art, Community, Sister Farms, Terra Cultura News
Over 300 participants joined us at our Paint and Plant event, at Coastal Roots’ Farm and Hangout Season Finale last Thursday afternoon. Children and adults of all ages sat under the shade of our tent, and painted terra-cotta pots, planted wildflower seeds...
by Travis Hill | Jul 11, 2017 | Agriculture, Environment, Terra Cultura News
A seed of an idea When Jessica and I returned from our world travels in late 2011, we stayed for a short while in San Diego, with Jessica’s parents, while we regrouped and planned our next move. During our stay, we talked a lot about some of the different agricultural...