Solving Problems for the Earth & Our Communities
Here’s an aerial view of the Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center, on 14 acres in Freedom, California, near Santa Cruz. The video also provides a quick look at some of our offices and our event spaces that may be available for rent. We also have some nice rooms in the main house and campsites available. Come stay with us!
This fascinating two-and-a-half-hour talk by David Blume provides an entertaining and thorough introduction to the topic of alcohol fuel.
In the late 1800s, getting to the “Wickedest Town in the West” was a full day’s dusty ride from Santa Cruz, California. The coastal town of Whiskey Hill was home to bars, brothels, fistfights, gunfights, and bull-versus-bear fights — until they ran out of bears and started havin’ plain old bullfights.
Dave Blume and Robert Re show us around the Whiskey Hill Farms local-scale alcohol distillery and factory for production of numerous co-products.
In this short talk, Dave Blume explains how alcohol can be used to inexpensively and ecologically create high-quality edible protein using cattail plants.
We love the spicy kick of wasabi with our sushi, but did you know that most wasabi served in restaurants is actually fake? That’s right, the green paste that we’ve come to associate with wasabi is usually made from a mixture of horseradish, mustard, and food coloring.
David Blume and Buckminster Fuller go way back. Bucky even wrote the foreword to Dave’s classic book, Alcohol Can Be a Gas!
His influence has informed Dave’s work across the decades, and now the nonprofit Buckminster Fuller Institute is accepting tax-deductible donations on behalf of Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center to help Dave continue along the path Bucky laid out.
Check out our YouTube channel. “Farmer Dave” Blume loves teaching and farming, and it shows as he takes you through little vignettes of what’s happening in the greenhouses at Whiskey Hill Farms. You can also see some interesting videos about alcohol fuel, its history, Dave’s global vision for clean fuel, and even a look at converting cars to run on alcohol with Daryl Hannah and Ed Begley.
In this short video, regenerative farming expert David Blume gives us a close look at a tobacco plant he grew in the tropical forest at Whiskey Hill Farms near Santa Cruz, California. He demonstrates how hummingbirds interact with its funnel-shaped flowers — and answers the question, “Why does a tobacco plant make nicotine?” — that dangerous chemical that so many people are so addicted to.