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Center (BAREC)

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What Is BAREC and Why Should It Be Preserved?

Bay Area Research and Extension Center

This 17 acre tract of land has belonged to The State of California since the 1960’s and was used for both

Horticultural and Agricultural research. It is one of the last remaining such properties in a place once known as

“The Valley of Heart’s Delight”

90 N. Winchester Blvd.Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara County

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BAREC sitelocation

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Where is BAREC?

BAREC

VALLEY FAIRCity of Santa Clara

City of San Jose

City of San Jose SANTANA ROW

BAREC ~ 2002

Open Space In a Concrete Jungle

BAREC from Valley Fair

BAREC from Valley Fair

One of the original Santa Clara buildings used to house Civil War Widows and their daughters from 1921 until the facility was closed in 1962 and the last Civil War orphan, Eva Simpkins, was moved to another home. Miss Simpkins died in 1966, having lived her entire life institutionalized. This building was part of the original facility known as “Osborne Hall” and later known as Holdermans.

Holderman Sanitarium

Patients from the Evergreen WRC home were moved to the site in Santa Clara which became known as Holderman’s Sanitarium.

In 1947, with patient numbers dwindling, the State was forced to make annual budget decisions that would control the destiny of the facility, it’s staff and future.

University of California

Turf (1997)

CIMIS Weather Station in turf grass plots ~ 1997

Oaks

Root growth based on use of tree chambers(greenhouses in background) 1997

Garlic research

The importance of strawberry research done by the University of California in Santa Clara, especially after the war, cannot be over stated.

Reaching our children with innovative

educational programs

Chili pepper & garlic research

Greenhouse research

CIMIS Weather Station

BAREC

Master Gardener TrialsMaster Gardener Trials

►Cut Flowers►Melon Varieties►Tomatoes ►Chili peppers►Garlic►Blueberry Varieties►Drought tolerant plants►Lettuce

We will conserve only what we love.We will love only what we understandWe will understand only what we are taught. Baba Dioum, African Environmentalist

World War I Postcard:World War I Postcard:Have We Changed This Much?Have We Changed This Much?

2003

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