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Title	Jeff Larkey: Route One Farms
Series Title	Cultivating a Movement: An Oral History of Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture on California’s Central Coast. Edited by Irene Reti and Sarah Rabkin.
Creator	Larkey, Jeff, narrator Farmer, Ellen, interviewer
Publisher	Santa Cruz, Calif. : University of California, Santa Cruz, University Library
Date of Publication	2010
Description/Abstract	54 pages. Jeff Larkey was born in Montreal, Canada, but his father’s family has been in California since 1849. Larkey spent part of his childhood in the Carmel Valley of California, and in Davis, California, working summers in the fields and processing plants of the conventional agriculture world. He came to Santa Cruz in 1973 to enroll in Cabrillo College’s solar technology program, where he also studied horticulture with Richard Merrill. In the late 1970s, Larkey moved onto a commune on Ivy Lane in Live Oak--an unincorporated, then still somewhat rural area of Santa Cruz County, where he and his fellow commune members grew basil and garlic as well as other crops on four acres of land, and transported them via bicycle to sell at the Live Oak Farmers’ market. These crop choices helped establish a taste among local community members for fresh pesto, creating a lasting legacy. In 1981, Larkey left that commune to farm along the fertile floodplain of the San Lorenzo River on Ocean Street Extension in Santa Cruz. His farming operation was certified by CCOF [California Certified Organic Farmers] in 1985, and eventually became Route One Farms. Larkey originally ran the farm together with Jonathan Steinberg (known as "Steiny"), but since 2002 has been the sole proprietor. Route One leases sixty-five acres of land in several locations in Santa Cruz County, including Rancho del Oso along Waddell Creek in Big Basin State Park. This oral history was conducted by Ellen Farmer on June 23, 2007, at the offices of Route One Farms in Santa Cruz, California.
Subject.LCSH	Farmers' markets
Subject.Local	Sustainable agriculture--History Organic farming--California Organic farming--United States--History Route One Farms
Geographic Location.TGN	Santa Cruz Santa Cruz (county) California United States
Language	English
Owning Institution & Contact Info	Regional History Project, University Library, UC Santa Cruz
Owning Institution Homepage	Owning Institution homepage: http://library.ucsc.edu/regional-history-project
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