Michael Laffoon has a vivid memory of the day he decided to piece his life back together. “I literally woke up in my van and I thought ‘I can’t do this anymore because I’m going to die,’” he says. “It ...

SANTA CRUZ – The homeless have no shortage of beds at the Natural Bridges Farm, many of them bursting with herbs or vegetables, flowers or strawberries. Each of the raised boxes at the 2.5-acre site ...

Homeless learn to farm in Santa Cruz January 2011 update: Many of the photos have been removed from this series so they can be published in a Breaking Through Concrete book, forthcoming this year from ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Not far from the raised garden beds growing leafy greens will be a worm farm that creates compost. Next to that, egg-laying chickens will roam freely. At the center of the ...

VISTAVISTA — A small Vista aquaponics farm run by a nonprofit group that works with homeless families just had a pretty big growth spurt — it has tripled in size. The agricultural enterprise known as ...

Trainee David Quigley uses a wheel hoe to weed a patch of peppers at the Homeless Garden Project’s Natural Bridges Farm in Santa Cruz this week as trainees, volunteers and staff get the farm ready for ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a third round of funding for Project Homekey on Monday. The state is dedicating $137 million for housing people who are facing homelessness. The money will go towards 19 ...

SANTA CRUZ — The homeless have no shortage of beds at the Natural Bridges Farm, many of them bursting with herbs or vegetables, flowers or strawberries. Each of the raised boxes at the 2.5-acre site ...

After years of planning, a new shelter for homeless farm workers is under construction in Carlsbad. Officials held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for the new La Posada de Guadalupe shelter. The ...