Happy Birthday, ACRESS Website

Our website was born yesterday and we're stoked! Check it out!

Events!

We're excited about our two upcoming events:

OCTOBER 1st (this weekend)
We're having our First Fundraiser Yard Sale at 1900 Commercial Way in Santa Cruz. If you have items to donate or if you'd like to come by and browse our items, we'd love to have you!

OCTOBER 2nd
We'll have a table at the Santa Cruz AIDS ride and finish line festival. Come enjoy the sun (hopefully), music, and fun!

OCTOBER 22nd
National Make a Difference Day! ACRESS will be particpating in this national effort by donating seedlings to local low-income families and seniors. Read or print out our PDF!

Our Newsletter

Click below for our very first Newsletter!

September 2011

October is just around the corner, welcome Fall!

A girl and a dream, or, How cliches can help you tell a genesis

I start with my passion. I have that and a plan. I also start with all the s*?! I own, from here I will try to only trade up. I heard of a guy once that started with a paperclip and wanted to trade his way up to a house - now that's inspiring!

Then I switch to: what do I want? I used to stop and think, "I want a farm someday" and it gradually transformed into, "I want everyone to have the choice to farm". That essential principle propels me forward.

So one day a community farm pops into my head. It grew and it snowballed through my imagination and became this cause. The loving support of my partner helped me incubate the ideas until I could release them to my trusted peers. The spawn of this collaboration is the Agricultural Center for Responsible Environmental Sustainability Studies, or just ACRESS, for short.

I owe a huge thank you to everyone I've ever encountered as they've all helped me facilitate my dreams. Thank YOU, the knowledge you gave one day became a maze of ideas the next and allowed me to grow into now. What better way, then, to show our commitment to agriculture, community, and sustainability than our favorite tagline, "know today, grow tomorrow".

Our Purpose

ACRESS was designed to create a comprehensive, sustainable, organic farming venture that will educate Santa Cruz County. We plan to do this by offering educational and vocational programs especially targeted at underrepresented segments of our community including but not limited to low-income children/families and people with disabilities. Our services will help empower our community to live sustainably themselves while showing them the value of actively participating in the food to table process. Through hands-on education we aim to plant the seeds of a new generation of farmers that will inspire, produce, and collaborate on this agricultural revolution.

An Idea Is Born

We are ACRESS farms (pronounced a-kers) the Agricultural Center for Responsible Environmental Sustainability Studies. We're a brand new non-profit organization on our way to becoming a non-profit corporation. Over the next year we'll be doing events and fundraising to help us meet our goal of buying land and building our farm. You can help us get there by liking us on Facebook, following @nessberry on Twitter, signing up to volunteer, or by donating today.
Follow us on our journey to fruition!