Free Cooking Lessons:

http://www.teenkitchenproject.org

The Teen Kitchen Project is a nonprofit organization that brings young people into the kitchen to learn to cook delicious and nourishing food. The meals they prepare are delivered free of charge to individuals and families who are in crisis due to a life-threatening illness like cancer. We serve families in Santa Cruz County, California.

Kitchen space rental:

http://www.villagekitchen.org/Share-Our-Kitchen.html

We are community-minded food crafters and would love to be able to share our new space with those who want to provide high quality and thoughtfully prepared food items. Hourly, daily, and monthly rates are available. We hope to attract local food crafters who are interested in supporting our local farmers and food purveyors.

Kitchen rental on front street in santa cruz

http://www.frontstreetkitchen.com

Resource for Locating Rental Kitchens:

http://www.culinaryincubator.com/maps.php?state=CA

This website is dedicated to small food businesses who are trying to find a commercial kitchen to cook their product. Culinary Incubators drive new start-up businesses, for whom, without  a health department licensed commercial kitchen, could not legally produce their food. In addition to producing food, commercial kitchens can be used to shoot TV shows, teach cooking classes, host food tastings, and other events.

Supply Stores for Preservation Santa Cruz:

Mountain Feed in Ben Lomond

Has all the preservation equipment and ingredients a person could ever need. Including cheese making supplies, pickling, canning, fermenting and many more as well as bee keeping and chicken essentials.

http://www.fermentationsolutions.com

Fermentation Solutions is a complete wine and beer making retail store. We sell a full line of products including books, ingredients and equipment for making beer, wine, mead, soda,

vinegar and more. We are proud of our customer service, providing friendly and personal attention to both beginners and experienced fermentation specialists.

Seven Bridges Cooperative

http://www.breworganic.com/About7bridges/about_7_bridges.htm

was founded to supply the best organic brewing ingredients in the world to brewers. Our retail store and mail order catalog have been open for business in Santa Cruz, California since 1997. Our mission is to make a wide selection of quality organic brewing ingredients available to home brewers. All of our organic ingredients are certified organic under the USDA national organic program.