Yes, there is a farm in Alameda! Join us to learn about the farm and its CSA and lend a hand on a project improving the farm’s productivity.
We’ll tour the farm for an hour, learning what it produces, how you can purchase its products, and its place at Alameda Point Collaborative. And we’ll work on a project to help the farm produce even more delicious produce. Logistics:
- Easy street parking
- Please bring your own gloves.
- All participants must agree to this waiver. It’s easy. Just click and agree.
- Any participants under 18 must have their parents agree to the waiver.
- Any participants under 13 must be accompanied by their parents at the event.
- Join us for pizza for lunch. And feel free to bring additional snacks and lunch items to share.
- Make sure to bring your own full water bottle.
Time to talk about your summer garden. Yes, the good, the bad and the ugly. We’ll have a moderated discussion on our brags and our woes, our successes and our failures, our solutions and those nagging problems.
Bring something to eat or drink to share, or just bring yourself. If you can bring your own plate and utensils, it will help us reduce waste. We look forward to seeing you!
Learn about canning with Margie Siegal.
Hi Pickers,
Apologies for the short notice! We have some apples and persimmons that need picking. If you come you’ll get to see our new Project Pick van! Let me know if you can join us for part or all of the time and I’ll sending joining details.
FYI – new volunteers will have to sign a waiver which I will have with me.
Please bring gardening gloves (if you have them), a hat, water and closed shoes.
We offer fruit to the tree owner, and we can take some, the rest all goes to the Alameda Food Bank.
Please call 510-239-PICK if you have any questions.
The meeting place will be given when you RSVP here.
Learn about growing citrus in Alameda with Jeff Bridge, General Manager of Ploughshares Nursery.
Since this coming Saturday, Nov. 18 promises to be dry, and we won’t pick over Thanksgiving weekend, please let me know if you are available in the afternoon to pick (from 2 – 4 PM).
Please only email info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org if you ARE available. I’ll let you know the addresses with your reply.
Thanks!
Jillian Saxty
Project Pick Coordinator
Hi Gleaners,
We are scheduling a pick for Sunday afternoon, Dec. 10, starting at 2PM. We’ll have two orange trees, and possibly a persimmon.
Look forward to hearing back from you if you CAN make it, and I’ll supply the address(es). Please email info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org if you can help.
A heartfelt thank you to the core group of pickers who have been so helpful and dedicated this year (you know who you are).
We will have some new guidelines for volunteers of Project Pick in 2018 – so stay tuned.
Thank you!
Jillian Saxty
Project Pick Coordinator
No ABG monthly meeting in December 2017.
Kick-off a Year of Sustainable Gardening!
Join Alameda Backyard Growers at 7PM on January 11, 2018 at Rhythmix Cultural Works for a screening of filmmaker Mark Kitchell’s new film: Evolution of Organic.
This is the story of organic agriculture, told by those who built the movement. A motley crew of back-to-the-landers, spiritual seekers and farmers’ sons and daughters reject chemical farming and set out to explore organic alternatives. It’s a heartfelt journey of change, from a small band of rebels to a cultural transformation in the way we grow and eat food. By now organic has gone mainstream, split into an industry oriented toward bringing organic to all people and a movement that has realized a vision of sustainable agriculture. It’s the most popular and successful outgrowth of the environmental impulse of the last fifty years.
Let’s get 2018 off to a great start and surpass last year’s level of 2800 lbs of fresh backyard fruit delivered to the Alameda Food Bank! What a great way to celebrate our Year of Sustainable Gardening!
We have 4 trees (lemons and oranges) to pick this weekend and more on our waiting list for the next pick. Citrus season has arrived.
Please let me know if you are available and I will send the meeting point information.
Bring gardening gloves and water. A hat and eye protection is also recommended.
Thank you!