Episode 10: Mike Kurtz and John Pek from New Hope Honey Makers join us to chat with our student staff about everything bees. From their inspiring backstory to the hives they […]
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Ranch Cast: A Passion for Teaching
Episode 9: In this edition, we welcome Mirel Mejia, Vice Principal of John Muir Charter Schools. Mirel shares her remarkable story of how she came to Rancho Cielo and answers questions […]
Ranch Cast: What’s Cooking at the Ranch
Episode 8: In this edition, we welcome Executive Chef EJ Jimenez from the Drummond Culinary Academy at Rancho Cielo. Chef EJ shares his background, teaching style and vision with our […]
Ranch Cast: Artichokes and Ferraris
Episode 7: This week, the students welcome Greg Lazzerini (pictured right), local farmer and car enthusiast. Greg’s family has been a mainstay in the Salinas and Monterey area for four […]
Ranch Cast: Ensuring Tomorrow
Episode 6: A fascinating visit with John Myers, the new Director of Strategy for Rancho Cielo Endowment Fund. John takes questions from our student staff about his time with the Peace […]
Trunk or Treat, Día de los Muertos and more
Even the mini horses — yes, the mini horses (Puzzle the Pirate and Georgina the Magical Princess Pony) from our community partner Hope, Horses & Kids — stopped by Rancho […]
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2025 Fall Newsletter
Remember the year 2000? As we collectively entered the new millennium (and sighed that the Y2K scare was over), Rancho Cielo was being established by then Monterey County Superior Court Judge John Phillips and a strong coalition of community members and public-private partnerships. Twenty-five years later, Phillips says what surprised him the most has not only been how great the need for our programs was, and still is, but also how robust the response has been to that need from the private sector and local industry across the Peninsula and the Salinas Valley.
