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News from Project Pick

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. […]

Project Pick

How You Can Help Rescue Food and Feed Your Community

Farm2Market, part of Alameda Point Collaborative, is a 2-acre farm on the west side of Alameda. Along with growing fruit and vegetables and distributing them through a CSA, Farm2Market, in partnership with FoodShift, runs a grocery rescue program. Each Wednesday, F2M bags 500+ pounds of produce that would otherwise be […]

Farm2Market needs bags

Wood Middle School garden

Help Wood Middle School Garden Grow

Outdoor learning ramped up in Alameda during the pandemic as a way to get students back to school sooner. In some of the older school buildings, adequate ventilation and physical distancing that met CDC standards was a cost prohibitive barrier to reopening. The pandemic forced schools and entire districts to […]


Alameda Compost Hub Now Open

Pick up free compost for your gardens at Alameda Point. Big shout out to Jess Bloomer and Sarah Miller at Farm2Market and Eva Stevens at Makerfarm for all their hard work in getting the compost hub started. Important information – please read everything below: Access to the Compost Hub is […]

Alameda Compost Hub

Oliver Stouffer at Farm2Market

A Farmer in the Making

Alameda Sun – Thursday, March 10, 2022 Alameda Backyard Growers (ABG) invited a youth at Farm2Market to share their perspective on gardening. Oliver Stouffer, a 17-year-old senior at Encinal High School, accepted their offer. My name is Oliver Stouffer. I am 17 years old and a Senior at Encinal High […]


Farewell Interview with Jeff Bridge of Ploughshares Nursery

by Jeff Bridge, answering questions from ABG Board Member, Marla Koss Alameda Backyard Growers and so many of us as individuals have grown to love and depend on Ploughshares Nursery and its stalwart manager Jeff Bridge. In early October Jeff left Ploughshares to join a wholesale nursery in Petaluma. At […]

Jeff Bridge

Project Pick delivers fruit to Alameda Food Bank

How to Fight Hunger in Alameda Right Now

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 […]


Alameda’s Local CSA – Farm2Market

by Alison Limoges In case you haven’t heard, Farm2Market, a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project of Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) at Alameda’s former Navy base, has a new manager. Jess Bloomer is excited to be overseeing this two acre diversified farm and social enterprise which is all about “Supporting the […]

Alameda CSA Farm2Market

Project Pick delivers fruit to Alameda Food Bank

When Times Get Tough, Alameda Gets Going

Alameda Sun – Thursday, December 10, 2020 by Cindy Houts, Executive Director of the Alameda Food Bank It’s become fashionable to deride 2020 as “annus horribilis” but I prefer to see it as a near biblical test of Alameda’s resolve and resiliency to which we have responded admirably. In my […]


Jean Sweeney Park Receives $2 Million from Del Monte Project

Contact: Amy Wooldridge Recreation and Park Director (510) 747-7570 awooldridge@alamedaca.gov “We are now at a notable crossroads for this project as the conceptual plan, developed by the community, starts to become a reality,” said Recreation and Park Director Amy Wooldridge. “This is an exciting moment in time for the Jean […]


Fresh Food Gets a Boost Under New State Laws

by Kurtis Alexander, a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Read the original article here. Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation last week that seeks to bolster California’s love affair with fresh food, including approving creation of a statewide Office of Farm to Fork. After putting his signature on seven bills Friday, […]


Climate Change Rally in Oakland

While tens of thousands were gathered in New York City on Sunday, September 21, 2014, hundreds of other rallies were held around the country to highlight Climate Change. Hundreds of Northern California environmental, social justice and trade union groups gathered at the amphitheater near Lake Merritt. Enthusiastic speakers from many […]


Alameda County: Number relying on food bank grows

We are posting this article to underscore the increased need for food or monetary donations at our local food banks. By Samantha Clark Oakland Tribune Correspondent Originally published on 18 August 2014 OAKLAND — One in five Alameda County residents relies on food bank assistance, which is more than the […]


California drought: Food banks drying up, too

This recent article in from SF Gate shows how desperately our efforts are needed more than ever. Please consider donating extra vegetables or fruit from your gardens to the Alameda Food Bank. http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/California-drought-Food-banks-drying-up-too-5416846.php