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Lyn Garling: Former UCSC Farm and Garden Apprentice Coordinator, Farmer, Entomologist

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Title	Lyn Garling: Former UCSC Farm and Garden Apprentice Coordinator, Farmer, Entomologist
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	Garling, Lyn, narrator Farmer, Ellen, interviewer
Publisher	Santa Cruz, Calif. : University of California, Santa Cruz, University Library
Date of Publication	2010
Description/Abstract	57 pages. Lyn Garling was the apprentice coordinator for the UC Santa Cruz Agroecology Program (UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden) from 1984 to 1992. Garling is an entomologist by profession, with a fierce passion for the insect world, ecological literacy, and human justice. Before she came to UC Santa Cruz, Garling taught ecology in Nicaragua after the Nicaraguan revolution, and conducted biological studies in Costa Rica and Mexico. At UC Santa Cruz, she designed and taught the first comprehensive science curriculum for the apprentice program, pushed the Farm and Garden to be more responsive to issues of class, race, and ethnic diversity, and managed the Farm and Garden’s roadside and wholesale marketing, among other contributions. After leaving UC Santa Cruz, Garling moved to Pennsylvania, where she became an education specialist for that state’s Integrated Pest Management program, focusing on outreach to inner city residents at risk from exposure to toxic pesticides used in urban settings. In 1997, she began running her own organic farm, Over the Moon, specializing in chickens, turkeys, eggs, beef and pork. National Public Radio featured Garling in an October 2004 special on "Female Farmers: A Growing Trend in America." She is also quoted in a 2004 article in The Economist called "Women Farmers On the Move" and is one of the subjects of the award-winning film by Megan Thompson, "Ladies of the Land: A Film About Growing." Ellen Farmer conducted this interview (which covers not only Garling’s work at the UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden, but also her more recent activities) on October 7, 2007 over the telephone.
Subject.LCSH	University of California, Santa Cruz. Agroecology Program University of California, Santa Cruz. Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems Integrated pest management Women farmers
Subject.Local	Sustainable agriculture--history Organic farming--United States--History Organic farming--California Organic farming--Pennsylvania University of California, Santa Cruz -- History Over the Moon Farm
Geographic Location.TGN	Santa Cruz Santa Cruz (county) California United States Pennsylvania
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
Copyright Statement	All uses of these manuscripts are covered by copyright agreement between the interviewees and the Regents of the University of California. Under “fair use” standards, excerpts of up to six hundred words (per interview) may be used without the Regional History Project’s permission as long as the materials are properly cited. The citation should include the title of the oral history, the name of the narrator, the date of publication, the pages of the oral history from which the excerpts come, and the fact that the oral history was produced by the Regional History Project at the University Library, UC Santa Cruz. Any excerpting beyond six hundred words requires the written permission of the University Librarian, appropriate citation, and may require a fee, especially if this is a commercial publication or production. Under certain circumstances, not-for-profit users may be granted a waiver of the fee. In all instances, the Regional History Project requests a copy of the publication for the UCSC Library’s collection. Please contact ihreti@ucsc.edu for copyright questions.