The City of Alameda’s December 2025 Sustainability & Resilience News featured an article called Feed Alameda Families with Project Pick (their December edition hasn’t been added to their website yet). In addition, a November 26th article by Momo Chang in Nosh Dishing on the East Bay (Oaklandside.org and Berkeleyside.org) featured […]
Project Pick Shatters Records and Aims Even Higher for 2025! Project Pick is celebrating a truly monumental year, far surpassing all previous records for fruit gleaned and donated to Alameda Food Bank (AFB). Thanks to the incredible dedication of our volunteers and generous fruit donors, Project Pick has achieved unprecedented […]
by Amy Kalkstein Project Pick is off to a great start for 2024, despite another rainy winter making it challenging to schedule picks. With a great group of volunteers stepping up whenever there were breaks in the rain for last minute picks not only on weekends, but also mid-week, we […]
by Jillian Saxty, ABG Project Pick Coordinator I read an article in the SF Chronicle on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023 and it struck a nerve. The title was ‘On the joy of feeding your fellow humans’ written by Bob Brody. It made me think of Alameda Backyard Grower’s Project Pick. […]
By Jillian Saxty, ABG Project Pick Coordinator I have been running ABG’s Project Pick, with the help of many wonderful volunteers and ABG members, for over a decade and it still amazes me just how many fruit trees we have in Alameda, especially lemon trees. During the winter months, January […]
A big shout out and thank you to Alameda Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) Garden Club students who organized picking apples from the orchard on their campus. They donated 100 lbs of delicious fruit that was delivered to the Alameda Food Bank. ABG appreciates the dedication of these students to […]
Alameda Sun – Thursday, July 14, 2022 by Jillian Saxty, Co-President of Alameda Backyard Growers Community organizations in other cities now have a handy tool for setting up their own food recovery or gleaning groups thanks to the new booklet produced by StopWaste and Alameda Backyard Growers (ABG). The publication, […]
by Karin K. Jensen on News Break According to Cindy Houts, Executive Director of the Alameda Food Bank (AFB), hunger was already a growing problem in our relatively prosperous community before the pandemic hit. Once Covid-19 arrived, the need multiplied. AFB reports that they are serving ten times the number […]
by Jillian Saxty Printed in the Alameda Sun, Thursday, July 12, 2018 Becoming involved in Project Pick was the main reason I decided to join Alameda Backyard Growers (ABG) back in 2010. While driving around town (in my electric car) I had always noticed how many fruit trees we have […]
