Human Beans in Isla Vista Jojoba: Fighting to Save the Whale from Lima Beans to Pampas Grass Guayule: the Organic Lubricant PAGEA2 DAILY NEXUS FRIDAY, OCTOBER5
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T / A Weekly Feature MAGAZINE of the Dally Nexus Photo by Eric Woodbury ' a | ~ Also: Human Beans in Isla Vista Jojoba: Fighting to Save the Whale From Lima Beans to Pampas Grass Guayule: The Organic Lubricant PAGEA2 DAILY NEXUS FRIDAY, OCTOBER5. 1979 Santa Barbara’s agricultural marijuana industry, for which scene has been undergoing revenue figures are unavailable, $ £ 6 6 ] dramatic changes during the last no other crop in the area is quite as What’s Growing 200 years of the white man’s lucrative as the avocado. supervision. Alternative farming methods OFF I In this edition, we’ll take a look are taking root over at the Isla at the flora that has come and Vista Human Bean Farm where Regular Price — In gone. More than a mere rotation of members aim to make Isla Vista a ANY • crops, the coastal area has been self—sufficient community. host to everything from lima beans Other uses for the land are for ATHLETIC SHOE!!: and hay, to walnuts and pampas developing experimental crops with this coupon : grass, to eucalyptus and avocados. such as the jojoba and the guayule. Expires 10/13/79 ! Presently, the avocado is the The former may cut down the Santa Barbara reigning crop, expecting to yield world’s dependence on whale oil I : over $20 million this season. while the latter hopes to reduce our Barring the homegrown need for synthetic rubber. ^°les& Resoles ; 4419 Hollister at Modoc : # 964-2222 a sm 9 fit eplSCOP&t The Episcopal Church at U C SB Frisbee Update IX I | Saint Michael and All Angels HOLY EUCHARIST CbüRCf) Sunday 8 am & 10 am Wednesday 6 pm Friday Noon Camino Pescaero and picasso Fr. Harlan 1. 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SUNDAYBRUNCH Panheiienic Assoc. j ---it« s;»: Dark green fields of avocados now cover the rolling hills of the Goleta Valley as thickly as the summer fog. The plants ability to thrive on land too steep for other flora and the expanding. nationwide market have turned the Goleta hills into gold. County Director and Farm Advisor until prices rise. In the market parcels of land, managed by the for the U.C. Cooperative Ex place, this type of avocado will last owner who lives on the property. tension. Bishop Ranch, the first up to twice as long as other These farms range in size from one Goleta Guacamole: large scale grove in the state, was varieties, (having a shelf-life of acre to over a hundred with the started in Goleta in the 1930’s with from two weeks to a month) and its average being around six acres. 200 acres. Today, the ranch is still thick skin protects it from bruises. “ One of the beauties of avocados” The Greenest Crop one of the county’s top producers. Most of the avocados grown in says Goodall, “ is that there is no Avocados do very well in this the county are raised on small (Please turn to p.A4, col.2) By DAVE KIRBY previously uncultivated foothill area mostly because of its climate. The mighty avocado----- that land. Second, the market for A native of the tropical rainforests luscious green-black pearl of avocados has been expanding as of Mexico and Central America, perfection that adds rich flavor to promotion and advertising have the fruit has adapted very well to any meal and hundreds of calories helped boost the fruit’s image both the drier, yet equally mild to any diet, is bringing in an locally and nationally. Finally, mediterranean climate. The astounding $20 million to Santa new strains of avocado and better county coastal region is practically Barbara County growers this year. growing and irrigation methods, free from winter frost and what is In 1977 avocados were the single combined with consistently high lost in rainfall is augmented by most valuable cash crop in the prices, have made avocado irrigation. Since temperature is county. This year, the avocado is growing more attractive to the fairly mild during the summer expected to exceed lettuce, (last farmer. (The gross per acre in months, the fruit matures less year’s most valuable crop), and come for an orchard is $3,000 to rapidly, thus enabling farmers to again be number one in the county. $4,000 a year.) take advantage of “late market” Avocado cultivation has been prices. The favored growing areas steadily on the increase since the Avocados have a long history of in the county are in the foothills 1950’s and continues to be popular cultivation in this county. The first extending from Refugio in the with county farmers. Today, more trees wore imported from Mexico north to Rincon in the south. than 6,000 acres are being in 1871 and planted on the property Production underwent rapid cultivated by about 800 individual of Judge R.B. Ord. Other pioneers expansion in the 1950’s and it was growers making S.B. county of the fruit included George A. during this decade the “ Haas” second only to S.D. Co. in avocado White, and Joseph Sexton whose- variety became popular among production. Over the last twenty grove, planted at the turn of the farmers in the county. The Haas years, the once giant groves of century, is still producing in Goleta avocado is easily recognized by its lemon trees that covered the today. Avocado growing really- thick, black, bumpy skin. There county have gradually been didn’t become an industry however are several advantages to this replaced by more profitable land until 1915 when local farmers variety for both the farmer and uses- avocados, flowers, and of formed the California Avocado seller of the fruit. First, the Haas course, housing. Society, the first organization of its variety produces more fruit per County avocado production has kind in California. acre, thus increasing profits. Once doubled in the last ten years for Santa Barbara county farmers matured, the avocado can remain several reasons. First, along with became involved in avocado on the tree for as long as five replacing lemon groves, new or production “ as early as anyone months, enabling the farmer to chards have been started on else” according to George Goodall, “ play the market” and hold out r DAILY NEXUS FRIDAY EDITOR FRIDAY. OCTOBERS. 1979 KARLMONDON PAGE A3 MAGAZINE v . _________________________________________________________ J Human Beans in Isla Vista? BY LISA RENEE HARRIS pride and enthusiasm are in toward making Isla Vista more I admit it... when I first found out abundance among the workers. self-sufficient. I was doing a story on the Isla The gardeners divide their crops The major difference between Vista Human Bean Farm, I en between two basic types of far the French farming and industrial visioned a troupe of anti ming: French Intensive and dry. agriculture as we know it, is establishment, couldn’t-get-a-job- The former is a restoration of a energy. The amount of resources so-I-stayed-in-I.V., “ totally technique which was outmoded in used to grow and transport this casual,” pseudo-hippie-farmers.