Quick Take
Homeless Garden Project’s annual Sustain Supper returns July 19 to Natural Bridges Farm with a farm-to-table vegetarian feast, live music and a keynote by author Manjula Martin, all to support job training and transitional employment for people experiencing homelessness.
Most diners are familiar with “farm to table,” but at Homeless Garden Project’s Sustain Supper, the table comes to the farm. The local nonprofit’s annual fundraising dinner returns to Natural Bridges Farm in Santa Cruz’s Westside neighborhood on Saturday, July 19, from 4 to 7:30 p.m. This event fundraises for the local nonprofit, which provides transitional employment, support services and job training to people experiencing homelessness.
The Sustain Supper typically draws big names in the food, farming and art realms, and counts acclaimed novelist Jonathan Franzen and chef/author Bryant Terry as keynote speakers. This year Katie Reicher, the head chef at landmark vegetarian restaurant Greens in San Francisco and author of “Seasons of Greens,” will prepare a vegetarian meal using produce grown on the 3-acre farm. The evening also includes a tour of the farm, special wine pairings and other beverages, and live music courtesy of Americana trio Quail Hollow Drifters.
The keynote speaker is Manjula Martin, author of “The Last Fire Season,” a memoir about the CZU Lightning Complex fires that devastated large swaths of Northern California, including Santa Cruz County, in 2020.
Tickets are $195 and available at homelessgardenproject.org.
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