Terra Nova encourages you to Think Local First ! Reduce your carbon footprint by supporting independent and locally owned businesses. Terra Nova is a member of Think Local First and…
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The Monterey Bay Area Green Business Program awards certification to businesses that have voluntarily gone above and beyond regulatory requirements to prevent pollution and conserve resources by • reducing water…
We are please to announce that Terra Nova is now certified to install Raintube. This rain gutter protection product is made to fit in any size rain gutter and easily…
Terra Nova owner Ken Foster serves on the steering committee of Transition Santa Cruz. Using guidelines outlined in The Transition Handbook, we are reinventing Santa Cruz as a city in transition…
We are very proud of our Santa Cruz Permaculture Design Course graduates. Here is a collage of pictures from the final design project presentations. Our fearless leader Larry Santoyo with…
As part of our 2008 Permaculture Design Course, David I. Theodoropoulos taught a class based on his book: Invasion Biology: Critique of A Pseudoscience, and in doing so, made a…
We have been fascinated with green roofs since we first learned about them the mid 1990s. Terra Nova received Sunset Magazine’s WESTERN LIVING AWARD for a garden with a green…
We thank everyone who voted for us for ‘Best Green Service’ in the Santa Cruz Good Times poll. We will do our best to live up to this honor. Although…
Our Permaculture design groups working/playing in the sand with their projects. Tom Broz of Live Earth Farm giving a talk about his farm’s solar panels. Brian Barth giving a talk…
We believe that the roots of the current honeybee crisis may well be found in the practices of agribusiness and that at least one solution is in the hands of…
