About Jessica Ridgeway

Jessica is the director of the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program. Seed to Mouth, Farm to Fork, Child to Community Connections. Email Jessica with inquiries about the educational aims and activities at the farm.

Discover This! – Notes from the Field Classroom – January 2013

Thank you, thank you, thank you to our Live Earth Farm Community! We are so lucky to have your support in making our farm and our programs exciting and accessible. We raised $2675 in our year-end campaign! These funds will make the year of upcoming farm adventures amazing and possible. We are gearing up for [...]

Discover This! – December 2012

The Year In Review We at the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program would like to thank you, our community for all of the amazing support you have given us over the course of this past year.  We have incredible accomplishments to report. We have shared the farm and all of its educational opportunities with about [...]

By |2012-12-17T10:34:41-08:00December 17th, 2012|Discover This!|0 Comments

Main Street Garden & Cafe Features Live Earth Farm …

Main Street Garden & Café Features Live Earth Farm and Benefits the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program On Thursday November 15th, Main Street Garden & Café Chefs Farm Night program will feature Live Earth Farm’s produce and pasture raised goat in a 5 course, prix fixe meal for only $50.00! For every prix fixe meal [...]

By |2012-11-14T15:08:10-08:00November 14th, 2012|Discover This!|0 Comments

Discovery Program Update: 11/12/12

Hello again LEFDP Fans! Starting this month, the LEF Discovery Program will begin producing its own newsletter, Discover This, once a month, on the third Tuesday.  Keep an eye out for the first issue on November 20th, next week.  That is why you are only getting a quick peek here. What's the peek? Well, you [...]

By |2012-11-14T14:58:07-08:00November 14th, 2012|Discover This!|0 Comments

Discovery Program Update: 10/29/12

Hello LEFDP Fans! Just a quick greeting from the Discovery Program desk and a simple request . . . We had a stellar week last week in the fields with about 180 kids visiting the farm between Wednesday and Friday. It would have been about 240 kids had Monday's visit by Ann Soldo Elementary not [...]

By |2012-11-02T12:17:45-07:00October 31st, 2012|Discover This!|0 Comments

Discovery Program Update: 10/15/12

We of the LEF Discovery Program have been busy in the fields and off site this fall.  We are in the heart of our fall tour season, and have about two tours a week with schools mostly from Watsonville.  We are hosting a lot of third graders this year, which is new.  We are glad [...]

By |2012-11-02T12:17:05-07:00October 18th, 2012|Discover This!|0 Comments

Dig! Fundraiser Recap

Thanks to so much support from our community, Dig! was a huge success! We are still tallying results, but it looks like we netted about $15,000 in funds that will go directly towards providing education programs on the farm for local youth! This event is unique in so many ways, one of which is that [...]

By |2014-02-26T20:29:07-08:00October 1st, 2012|Discover This!, Events|0 Comments

Farm Tour Season Begins!

Stanford University, Ann Soldo Elementary kick off tour season. We are off to a busy week in the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program! We had an amazing time with the "SPOT-lets" (Stanford Pre-Orientation Tour). We had ten wonderful incoming freshmen and two enthusiastic leaders who are sophomores at Stanford stay with us for four nights. [...]

By |2013-02-18T19:54:12-08:00September 17th, 2012|Discover This!|0 Comments

Your Donations at Work Educating All Ages

I am getting so excited for another fall season of education to begin on the farm. The transition into this, the busiest of seasons, makes me so proud of what we have built. With just one reminder e-mail to the schools of the Pajaro Valley and Monterey Bay Area, we received dozens of phone calls [...]

By |2013-02-18T19:59:34-08:00September 3rd, 2012|Discover This!|0 Comments
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