Daily Archives: February 20, 2023


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

Dormant Pruning

Winter Dormant Pruning – The Time is Now!

by Marla Koss By the time this newsletter reaches your inbox, Alameda will have accumulated over 600 chill hours* since November 1. This means all the following deciduous fruit trees should have their dormant (winter) pruning done by the next week or two (or ideally, already have had it), depending […]


Oak Root Fungus

by Margie Siegal I came back from a short trip and did a tour around the back yard. The Gala apple tree was drooping. I knew what it was – oak root fungus. I started soaking the tree with fungicide and clearing out the ground around the roots, but it […]

Oak Root Fungus