<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/westmont-news/talk-explore-organic-growing-coffee.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>02/08/2017</pubDate><title>Talk to Explore Organic Growing, Coffee</title><excerpt>Jay Ruskey, owner of Good Land Organics, a 42-acre farm in Goleta that specializes in exotic sub-tropical crops, examines organic growing practices and groundbreaking work growing coffee in California on Thursday, Feb. 23, at 3:30 p.m. at Founders Room in the Westmont Kerr Student Center. The Sustainability Speaker Series lecture, “Organic Growing Practices and California Coffee,” is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (805) 565-6082.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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        </image><caption>Jay Ruskey with one of his coffee plants (photo by Michelle Nunes)</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...</description></item>