A feature article from Edible Monterey Bay magazine (Winter 2023) profiling Santa Cruz Permaculture (SCP) and its founder David Shaw. Describes SCP’s 26-acre organic farm leased between Davenport and Pescadero on the San Mateo/Santa Cruz coast — the former Swanton Berry Farm site — where Shaw and students grow food and medicinal crops for a CSA, sell at the Santa Cruz Westside Farmers Market, and offer courses in permaculture design, food forests, herbalism, and regenerative beekeeping. Covers Shaw’s “LIBTYFI” (Leave It Better Than You Found It) philosophy, his UCSC academic background in agroecology and environmental studies, and his co-founding of the Right Livelihood Center.
