Seven garden leaders completed Blue Sky Center's 6-week entrepreneurial course on how to start their own food business over the summer. During the course, they learned more about MEKOS, how to get a food business license, and how to utilize community…
Blue Sky Center released the "Sabores del Valle / Tastes of the Valley,” a book of recipes shared by leaders and friends of the Cuyama Valley Victory Gardens. From drinks and appetizers to entrees and desserts from many family archives,…
20 members of the Cuyama Valley Victory Garden Network participated in two "talleres de fermentación" (fermentation workshops) led by Michelle Lopez of @wildatheartojai! These included a discussion of fermented foods' health benefits, a tasting of fermented beet juice, a step-by-step…
Blue Sky Center was awarded $14,500 by SBCFAN’s Food System Resilience Grant program to grow their Cuyama Valley Healthy Foods Initiative and Victory Gardens Program.
Blue Sky Center’s Land Steward Sandra Uribe spearheaded and launched The Cuyama Victory Gardens Project, installing raised bed gardens, implementing bilingual curricula, and supplying planter materials, seeds, and starter plants for 11 families to grow their own fresh produce.
Sandra Uribe organized a workshop to show Victory Garden families how to identify the best garlic bulbs to use as seeds, how to prepare the soil, and how to plant them. After her hands-on demonstration, she provided each participant with…
With an award received from the Fund for Santa Barbara, Blue Sky Center implemented the Cuyama Valley Victory Gardens Project to confront immediate issues of food access in the Cuyama Valley during COVID-19.
