Love Apple Farms

  • OUR CLASSES ARE HELD AT
    2317 Vine Hill Rd, Santa Cruz
    loveapplefarms@gmail.com
    (831) 588-3801
    OUR TOMATO PLANT NURSERY IS AT 5311 Scotts Valley Dr., Scotts Valley, CA

We farm for Manresa Restaurant

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  • Simon Majumdar Cooking Class and Book Signing

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Comments

Dede Dodson

I have a strong resolve this year to gather up your recommended list of ingredients to grace my tomato holes. Thanks for the great tips and as always, your goodwill to share this information so that we may all have tomato bragging rights!

Gary Millwood

Greetings, Cynthia! I always look forward to receiving your helpful Newletter. I found your comments "Growing Tomato Transplants From Seed" so very simple to follow and helpful. One hardly ever sees the instruction for canning/preserving. It brings back memories of my grandmother canning things from the garden when I was a child. Life today is about making good memories to last a life time. Thank you for making that possible for so many folks!

Jane Baker

Hi,I live in Arroyo Grande and last spring I followed your directions for tomato planting exactly as described including the fish heads. The summer weather was so awful cold at night and cool and/or over cast during the day that the plants grew very slowly and we never got one tomato from any of the 9 var. we planted. My farmers' market friends were equally challenged. I'm definitely coming up for a class. I've seen requests for video tapes - is this a possibility? Hope so, Jane

John Viken

I really enjoyed visiting the farm for the tomato seedling sale last spring. Now I look forward to visiting your new farm if possible. Thanks, your farm is wonderful!

Jeph Remley

I seriously think you need to open up another Love Apple Farm, only in NE Ohio! PLEEEEEEASE!!!

Michaelia Morgan

Thank you for sharing the Love & the Apples :)

Carla

Wow! All I can say is that I wish I were in your area so that I could attend your classes. They sound awesome!! But, alas, I'm in Montana.

You do a fantastic job and I truly enjoy reading your blog, newsletter and facebook.

Happy Gardening!
~Carla
JustRSize Acres
Montana

Penny

Loved the tomatoes i got from your farm, through as sister..wish I had had more sun though!!

Cathy Holt

I love your farm too and you have some great classes coming up. I always look forward to what all you have going on.

Cathy

deb tietjen

Hi Cynthia,
I SO want to come back and see the new location! You are an inspiration to the little farmer in me that is longing to come out!

elena lawson

I am hooked! It started with some seeds and your early spring gardening class and the rest is history, at least to my family. I am excited to take many more of your classes in 2011.

Ivan A.

Look forward to growing next season!

Georgia Clarke

Love your farm, love your tomatoes, love the support, love your passion.....What's NOT to LOVE at Love Apple Farm!

Ann Andrews

Hi Cynthia,
Thanks so much working with me to give the Spring Planting class to my husband for Christmas. He'll be so surprised since you sent the certificate to my daughter so he wouldn't see it in the mail! He's so hard to fool.
Ann Andrews

PS I'm not sure what website URL means.

Caity

I love your website and newsletters! Just wish that you were a little closer so that I could attend some of your fabulous looking classes!

Pat

Love your website...exceptional quality in the articles. THANK YOU. You inspire my gardening life.
Pat from Minnesota(!)

Cinthy Tanko

Hello Cynthia- I follow you online through your wonderful emails and SOOOO wish you were closer! I live near Denver and would love to attend so many of your classes. Ever think of expanding??!! :)

Andrea G

I have taken only one class so far [pickling] and it was great. The new class room is great. What a beautiful farm!

Suzanne McLean

This was a truly nasty year for tomatoes - wet, rain, cold, mites! But supplementing my seed started tomatoes with some of Cynthia's plants helped alot. Thanks, all.

Stacy Carp

I grew tomatoes this year but never really felt in control of the final result. For instance, I totally overwatered them and diluted the flavor I think. Also, there was a mold or something that killed 4 of my plants.

I can't wait to take a tomato-growing class so that I can better steer the process next year. I love tomatoes with a passion and enjoy growing them so much, but it would be a lot more fun to know what I'm doing! Now I just have to figure out how to get to a class given my crazy travel schedule.

Jennifer Ezell

Thanks for the updated calendar of classes - the ones I took last year were so inspiring! I am really looking forward to seeing your new space and taking classes that take me beyond tomatoes, herbs, and vegetables. Should I have bees? Shall we have chickens? I probably should get my husband to come out so he has some buy-in on any new projects.

Julie Mazurek

The Tomato Masters class was excellent and I really had a good learning experience from you (just like my classes for years in Catholic School)! You truly have helped me become a better educated gardener.

Grow your own vegetables

Here's some food for thought about the dangers of commercially grown fruits and vegetables that support your inspiring efforts to promote growing your own.

Vickie and Bob Francone

My husband and I took
"Growing Tomato Transplants from Seed" on 2/6/2010.
Our seedlings are now ready to be transplanted into pots(all 288 plants). We are now hooked on Cynthia's classes and have registered for 4 more classes. It is amazing how well the seeds grew and now dream of 10 foot plants.
Thanks Cynthia

Forklift Guy

Is there a chance that you can video tape some of your classes and make them available online for those of us who live in other parts of the country? That would be great. I don't know much about growing veggies and would appreciate help so I can avoid common mistakes beginners make.

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  • Love Apple Farms' retail greenhouse is open Mondays through Saturdays from 10 to 5 and Sundays 11 to 4. The main farm land is not open to casual visitors; you must be a registered student or part of an organized farm tour. All workshops are held at 2317 Vine Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA. You may tour the farm by registering for specific dates. See the right hand bar for more info.

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