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May Astrology: Embrace the Warmth of Spring

May 1, 2021May 14, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

By Catie Cadge Welcome to the Santa Cruz Cosmic Weather Report – Evolutionary Astrology of the moment, your moment in time, our collective moment of change! Early May is Taurus season and how appropriate for May Day! The Celtic holiday of Beltane marks the period between vernal equinox and solstice. Feasting, dancing around the maypole, and sharing the nighttime warmth… Read More

Officials Urge Big Basin and SLV Water Districts Merger

April 25, 2021July 7, 2023 slvpost.com2 Comments

By Jayme Ackemann As early as this summer, Big Basin Water Company customers could see water shortages or other impacts based on an alarming new order just issued by California’s State Water Resources Control Board. Since the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, Big Basin has operated its system from a single well. Much of the company’s water treatment and storage infrastructure… Read More

Column Alison Steele Columns Food & Drink

Nettles’ Song Soup

April 15, 2021June 13, 2023 slvpost.comFood, recipes0 comment

Recipes from a Mountain Garden By Alison Steele Coming into Spring, the hiking paths are lined with nettles, miner’s lettuce, wild garlic, and plantain. It’s fun to forage for wild greens, adding nutrients to our bodies when we need it most! Mother Earth knows how to grow mineral rich food even if our gardens are still too shady to grow our… Read More

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Streetwise: Kenville Road

April 15, 2021May 5, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

The Hidden History of SLV Street Names By Lisa Robinson Old Kenville Road, east of Zayante Creek, is the topic of this month’s article. But for whom is it named? There were two early Kenville homesteaders – Joseph Kenville, who with his wife America, came to Santa Cruz County in 1866 and, seemingly unrelated, Solomon Kenville and his wife Edesse… Read More

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Big Basin Water Company Facing Challenges

April 9, 2021August 29, 2024 slvpost.com1 Comment

By Jayme Ackemann “Water, water everywhere; nor a drop to drink.” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, depicts the plight of an Irish sailor adrift at sea, surrounded by undrinkable saltwater. For Big Basin Water Company (BBWC) customers, this old idiom may seem especially prophetic as questions are raised about the utility’s fate. Until January… Read More

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Column: MC Dwyer Columns Real Estate

SLV Homes: Spring Forward

April 9, 2021September 28, 2023 slvpost.com0 comment

By M.C. Dwyer Traditionally, just like tulip trees and daffodils, the real estate market bursts into new life in the spring. This year, like everything else defying normalcy, it felt like the market barely took a nap after the winter holidays. People’s migration out of cities and into the countryside continues, as the ability to work from home spawns an… Read More

Columns Food & Drink

Mountain Fermenter: Making Your Own Gin, Santa Cruz Mountains Style

April 5, 2021April 25, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

By Greg Roe and Mike Desmidt How can I make gin at home without a still, you ask? Well, you can skip that part, because someone’s already done the distillation for you. It’s called vodka. Gin is pretty much a vodka with botanicals added. Gin distillers extract most botanical flavors using the distillation process, but you can simply steep the… Read More

Column: Josh Reilly Columns Gardening

Spring Gardening: Arbors and Trellises

April 4, 2021June 7, 2023 slvpost.comgardening0 comment

By Josh Reilly “Arbors and Trellises” sounds like the title of a 70s soft-rock album, brimming with meaning. A reference to lofty, light weight, airy structures, often geometric and angular in form, but built to provide living space for winding, cascading plants, all curves and knots, billows and waves, tendrils and holdfasts. Things that prefer to live up in the breeze.… Read More

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Astrology: Cosmic Weather Report April 2021

March 31, 2021April 4, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

Mountain Stargazer By Catie Cadge In April, we embrace the hope of Spring, Aries season! Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, sign of the ram, is all about initiation and throwing ourselves into our passions. A lust for life! On April 3rd, Mercury moves into Aries, joining the Sun and Venus in the sign. Meanwhile, Venus forms a sextile… Read More

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Recipes from a Mountain Garden: Wild Blackberry and Beetroot Skillet Cake

March 10, 2021June 13, 2023 slvpost.comFood, recipes0 comment

By Alison Steele When February comes to an end, I start dreaming of the garden. The collards, kales, lettuces, and herbs are thriving, but the thought of round plump fruits and vegetables keep me pulling my seedbox down and fingering the envelopes of home-saved seeds of summer last. I start to notice the new spring crops in Wild Roots Market…… Read More