Come see us Saturdays from 10 to 12. We’re at 371 Calabasas Road in Watsonville, California, near Santa Cruz.
Now open to the public, unabridged, and full of excitement! For years, the Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center tour has amazed, informed, and delighted students — from grade school through post-graduate, including permaculture/landscape students — and visitors from the U.S. Senate and House and public agencies such as the USDA, the DOE, and NASA; from tribal governments; from the UN and numerous foreign governments; and from a wide range of non-profit development organizations.
On this free 2-hour tour, “Farmer Dave” Blume will demonstrate or explain and exhibit:
- The Whiskey Hill Farms alcohol distillery
- Running cars without gasoline
- The Whiskey Hill Farms tropical rainforest
- Tropical fruit-tasting
- A method to curtail worldwide forest destruction
- Organic wasabi cultivation
- Organic turmeric cultivation
- Making natural gas
- Managing bugs without sprays
- Raising fish and freshwater lobsters
- Advanced alternative energy systems
- Frogs, owls, coyotes, snakes, on Whiskey Hill Farms
- A 2000-year-old indigenous food production system
- Outsmarting gophers
- And much more.
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Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) outside the Bear Valley Visitor. January 22, 2023.
David Blume demonstrates how clean fuel burns at Blume Distillation Calabasas Road in Watsonville. — photo by Juan Martinez file
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