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Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
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    • Timeline: An Institutional History of UC Santa Cruz
    • EXPLORE BY CHAPTER
      • Ch. 1: Histories of Santa Cruz
      • Ch. 2: Envisioning A New Campus of the University of California, 1956-1961
      • Ch. 3: Planning the Santa Cruz Campus: 1961-1965
      • Ch. 4: Finding Faculty for the Experiment
      • Ch. 5: Cowell, Stevenson, and the Dream Becomes Reality
      • Ch. 6: An Unexpected Flourishing of the Sciences
      • Ch. 7: The Chadwick Garden and the Arboretum
      • Ch. 8: The Rising Counterculture
      • Ch. 9: The Vietnam War, Academic Freedom, and Campus Activism
      • Ch. 10: Escalating Protests and a Campus Divided
      • Ch. 11: "The Changing City on a Hill"
      • Ch. 12: "A Male Academic Locker Room"
      • Ch. 13: Kresge College
      • Ch. 14: Radical Feminism and Gay Liberation
      • Ch. 15: The Formation of College Five and the Kindling of the Arts
      • Ch. 16: The Genesis of Environmental Studies and College Eight
      • Ch. 17: The Building College-Board Crisis and the End of the McHenry Era
      • Ch. 18: A Crisis of Leadership and a Search for New Direction
      • Ch. 19: Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer and the "Reorganization" of the Experiment
      • Ch. 20: A Growing UCSC in the Community
      • Ch. 21: Finding a Place on a "Very White Campus"
      • Ch. 22: The Sinsheimer Era's Final Years
      • Ch. 23: Earthquakes: The Stevens Years
      • Ch. 24: A "Maturing" Campus Considers Its Direction
      • Ch. 25: Chancellor Karl Pister
      • Ch. 26: Affirmative Action and Diversity in a Hostile Climate
      • Ch. 27: UCSC as a Leader in the Research Sciences
      • Ch. 28: Conventional Grading, Graduate Education, and New Priorities
      • Ch. 29: Inventing and Reinventing Interdisciplinarity
      • Ch. 30: Often Invisible, Underpaid, and Overworked: Staff and Lecturers
      • Ch. 31: Still Pioneering: A New Experiment in College Nine and Ten
      • Ch. 32: The Brief and Tragic Tenure of Chancellor Denice Denton
      • Ch. 33: An Acting Chancellor in a Time of Instability
      • Ch. 34: Endings and Beginnings in a Time of Austerity
      • Ch. 35: The Continuing Story of Protest at UCSC
      • Ch. 36: What We Value Now: UCSC at Fifty
      • Ch. 37: The 2016 Election, Reaction, and Resistance
      • Coda

Ch. 7: The Chadwick Garden and the Arboretum

Chancellor McHenry on a walk to determine the location of the Garden Project: Alan Chadwick (1967)

Alan Chadwick, 1967

Garden project: student of Alan Chadwick's

Student of Alan Chadwick, 1968

Garden project: Alan Chadwick, founding gardener, at work with his spade in the UC Santa Cruz Garden Project. 1971/

Alan Chadwick, founding gardener of the UC Santa Cruz Gadren Project, 1971

Garden Project: student worker shows freshly harvested carrots. 1971.

Freshly harvested carrots, 1971

Garden Project: cut flowers brought to kiosk for faculty and students to take. 1971.

UC Santa Cruz Garden Project, 1971

Oral History Audio Clip: Brett Hall

Oral History Audio Clip: Brett Hall, Director of Horticulture and Living Collections, talks about the Arboretum, 2007.

A Guide to the UCSC Arboretum. Brochure. 1980s

Cover of A Guide to the UCSC Arboretum. Brochure cover, circa 1980s

Booklet. Self-Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm. Agroecology Program. Circa late 1980s

Cover of Self-Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm, circa late 1980s

Protea closeup, UCSC Arboretum. 2016.

Protea flower, UCSC Arboretum, 2018.

Video: UCSC Annual Report Arboretum, 2011.

Film: Alan Chadwick: Garden Song (1980)

Resources

  • UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden 50th Anniversary

Archives--UCSC Library Special Collections

  • Alan Chadwick Papers (MS302)

Oral histories

  • Cultivating a Movement: An Oral History of Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture on California’s Central Coast
  • The Early History of UCSC’s Farm and Garden
  • The UCSC Arboretum: A Grand Experiment: An Oral History

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