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Sunwise Co-op in Davis

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“A garden requires patient labor and attention.
Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or
to fulfill good intentions.
They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”
Liberty Hyde Bailey

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On my trip to Davis I learned about an amazing community. While I was taking a short walk through the neighborhood where I was visiting, I discovered the Sunwise Co-op community.

Sunwise Co-op was built in the early 1970s by a group of UC Davis students from the on-campus cooperative houses. These students had a vision of how the future of Sunwise should be.

The students wanted a place in the community where low-income individuals could live together in an ecologically sensitive, sustainable, vegetarian, organic, collective manner. The founders of Village Homes, Michael and Judy Corbett, shared this vision and provided the land that would become the home of the Sunwise Co-op in Davis.

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Winters Wonderland

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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
Confucius

Winters Sign

We arrived in Davis, California early Saturday morning around 1am.

This morning I decided to explore the town of Winters. It’s just a short thirty minute drive outside of Davis.

Theodore Winters, for whom the city of Winters was named, was described in an early issue of the Winters Advocate in 1876 as a “capitalist.” You can learn more about the history of Winters at their website.

As I drove along Russell Boulevard headed for Winters, I stopped and took some photos of the beautiful fall scenery.

The following are a few shots I took of the small quaint town of Winters, California.

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Drive to Winters Russell Rd Russell Rd Ranch Winters Trees Winters Clock Main St Home Old Red House Main St Yarn Store Main & Railroad First Northern Bank Closeup FNB FNB Customers
Chadwick Bldg Main St Trees