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Finding Balance in the Garden

August 30, 2025October 4, 2025 slvpost.com

Mindful choices in the garden invite a balanced, thriving landscape. (Photo by Naoki Suzuki) By Josh Reilly What follows is not intended to keep you out of our SLV nurseries or garden centers. Just the opposite. I hope you go. I just want you to pause and think before doing it. There are dragons at the temple gate. The path… Read More

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Your Soul’s Path and Calling | Astrology September 2025

August 29, 2025October 4, 2025 Catie Cadge, PhD

By Catie Cadge PhD September’s cosmic weather begins with Saturn retrograde reentering Pisces at 1:06 am PDT, September 1st. The ringed planet remains in the sign of the fishes until mid-February, 2026. Saturn continues to be in range of a conjunction with Neptune at the beginning of Aries throughout September. Saturn asks us to define and give structure to our… Read More

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Filming the Elephant Anna May 1922

August 28, 2025September 28, 2025 slvpost.com

By Randall Brown In the spring of 1922 Boulder Creek welcomed the return of the movie people. Location scouts for the Thomas Ince company, searching for a place to film a picture, in “a wooded country with no snow,” with “plenty of river and mountain scenery,” found the town ideally suited their plans. A crew of carpenters went to work,… Read More

Columns Livestock

So You Want to Keep Chickens

August 27, 2025September 7, 2025 slvpost.com

The Starter Park By Laura Testa-Reyes (AKA Chicken Lady) Welcome to the world of backyard chickens! If someone was to ask me for advice on what they should know before keeping chickens, my first answer would be to make sure they have a coop that can’t be broken into. The second bit of advice I would give is to get… Read More

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Spicy Fermented Honey

August 23, 2025August 30, 2025 Thomas Andersen

By Thomas Andersen Of course most of us think of the Viking mead when there is mention of fermented honey. Mead, if you have never had it, is a little sweet and quite complex in flavor because honey itself is as varied as the pollen from which it is made. It can also be quite potent, beyond 15% alcohol even.… Read More

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Summer Fun and Joy: August Astrology

August 2, 2025August 9, 2025 Catie Cadge, PhD

By Catie Cadge PhD Warm August days are upon us, Santa Cruz stargazers, and how appropriate for the final weeks of Leo season! We cherish each other with some good ol’ fashion summer fun and joy. The month starts out with Venus in Cancer at 01°37’ forming a square with Saturn retrograde in Aries at 6:34 am Pacific time, August… Read More

Columns Food & Drink

Loquat Wine

July 20, 2025August 2, 2025 Thomas Andersenwine

By Tom Andersen The loquats are out and they won’t last long. In my neighborhood it’s the squirrels vs. man – that being me, although this year they are also taking on my cats. The cats crouching behind the screen door, squirrels sitting in the loquat tree confident that the door is latched, taking one small bite and throwing the… Read More

Column: MC Dwyer Columns Real Estate

California Housing – A Story of Strain and Strength

July 13, 2025August 2, 2025 slvpost.com

Today’s housing market is facing a “triple threat” — rising prices + insurance premiums + interest rates By M.C. Dwyer From the rural Santa Cruz & Los Gatos Mountains through Scotts Valley and Santa Cruz, my review of May’s MLS single family home sales in our micro-region revealed a telling trend: 70% of the 74 homes that sold, sold for… Read More

Columns Commentary Tech

Will AI Crowd Out Humans?

July 7, 2025July 12, 2025 slvpost.com

By Jane Mulcaster Why would Microsoft, a corporation that’s making record profits with billions in cash reserves, send pink slips to 6,000 workers, 3% of its workforce? Amazon, Meta, and Google have likewise laid off thousands of workers so far this year. The Mercury News reports that the Bay Area alone has shed more than 11,000 tech jobs in the… Read More

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Time to Shine | Astrology July 2025

July 2, 2025July 13, 2025 Catie Cadge, PhD

By Catie Cadge, PhD Summer greetings, Santa Cruz stargazers. July continues to bring some challenging moments ripe for personal growth, but also some possible tension. The month starts with Jupiter in Cancer moving ahead in the sign, but still in range of a square to Saturn and Neptune in early Aries. This ongoing square has been rattling our world since… Read More