Calendar


Mar
3
Sun
2019
March Madness Pick
Mar 3 @ 2:35 am – 3:35 am
March Madness Pick

As long as the weather holds up, we’ll keep picking!

Please let me know if you ARE available to pick on Sunday, March 3 between 2 – 4PM by emailing info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org.

Bring gardening gloves if you have them, a hat and water.

Thank you for all your help! You are fabulous volunteers!

Jillian Saxty
ABG Project Pick Coordinator

Mar
10
Sun
2019
Introduction to Drawdown @ Alameda Free Library
Mar 10 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Presenters: Damian Mason, and two additional CASA members

Reversing Global Warming: Introduction to Drawdown is a 2-hour workshop – open to all – that invites our local Alameda community to see the possibility of reversing global warming and to understand that we each have an important role to play in that process.

Through videos and group activities, presenters will introduce a comprehensive plan to reverse global warming from “Project Drawdown“, a scientific study that identifies 100 solutions which, if implemented together, can begin to not just slow down, but to actually roll back, global warming by 2050.

“Drawdown is that point in time when the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begins to decline on year-to-year basis.” ~ Project Drawdown

Need more info? Contact: drawdownalameda@gmail.com

Mar
17
Sun
2019
Project Pick – St Paddy Day Pick
Mar 17 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Join us Sunday, March 17, from 2 – 4 PM to pick what will be left of the citrus crop, which has been amazing this year.

Email info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org if you ARE available and we’ll let you know where we’ll be meeting.

Thanks!

Jillian Saxty
ABG Project Pick Coordinator

Mar
19
Tue
2019
Fighting Climate Change in Our Backyards @ Rhythmix Cultural Works
Mar 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Fighting Climate Change in Our Backyards @ Rhythmix Cultural Works | Alameda | California | United States

Panel discussion with Birgitt Evans, Marla Koss and Damian Mason

The term “Carbon Sequestration” is the turning up everywhere in the fight against global warming.  It may sound intimidating or difficult, something to be done by governments or on a large scale, but it’s not.  Come learn how you can sequester carbon in your own garden soil by composting and mulching with the plant materials in your yard and the leaves that fall in our streets and learn about keeping carbon in your soil with no til methods of growing. In addition, we will cover the more advanced topics of Biochar and Hugelkultur to help make long term deposits of carbon to our soil. Birgitt, Marla and Damian will make the topic accessible to local gardeners . 

Mar
24
Sun
2019
Project Pick – Citrus Wind Down
Mar 24 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Hi Pickers,

Spring is springing! Will it every dry out so we can get back to our gardens?

Meanwhile we have a few more lemons, oranges and other citrus to pick.

Please join us on Sunday, March 24 from 2 – 4 PM. Bring a hat, gardening gloves (if you have them) and water to drink.

I will advise our joining location when you RSVP by emailing info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org

Thank you!

Apr
7
Sun
2019
Project Pick – April Showers
Apr 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Hi Pickers,

I look forward to seeing our team this Sunday, April 7 from 2 – 4 PM! If you can join us, please fill in this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sHlMPrx31zNc5-0crH7-hoL0wHRVhkY1pcc_4E1MfhU

or email me at info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org

Once you have RSVP’d, I will send information on where to meet.

Please bring gardening gloves (if you have them), a hat and water to drink.

Thank you!

Jillian Saxty

ABG Project Pick Coordinator

Apr
14
Sun
2019
Project Pick – Quick Pick
Apr 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Hi Pickers,

We’re still trying to catch up from this year’s citrus tsunami so we’re having a ‘quick pick’ of 3 locations this Sunday, April 14 from 2 – 4 PM!

If you can join us, please fill in this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sHlMPrx31zNc5-0crH7-hoL0wHRVhkY1pcc_4E1MfhU

or email me at info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org

Once you have RSVP’d, I will send information on where to meet.

Please bring gardening gloves (if you have them), a hat and water to drink.

Thank you!

Jillian Saxty

Apr
16
Tue
2019
Great Habitat Plants @ Rhythmix Cultural Works
Apr 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us and Jeff Bridge, of Alameda’s Ploughshare Nursery, to discuss plants in your garden that can support native pollinators and survive drought conditions.

Apr
28
Sun
2019
Project Pick – Spring Fling
Apr 28 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Hi Pickers,

We hope you can join us Sunday, April 28 from 2 – 4 PM. This pick will be lead by Holly Johnson.

If you can join us, please fill in this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sHlMPrx31zNc5-0crH7-hoL0wHRVhkY1pcc_4E1MfhU

or email us at info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org

Once you have RSVP’d, we will send information on where to meet.

Please bring gardening gloves (if you have them), a hat and water to drink.

Thank you!

Jillian Saxty
ABG Project Pick Coordinator

May
5
Sun
2019
Project Pick – Cinco de Mayo
May 5 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Hi Pickers!

What are you up to for Cinco de Mayo? Why not join us for a quick pick in the morning of Sunday, May 5 before diving into other festivities and celebrations?

Let me know if you can join us to pick (hopefully) lemons and oranges by clicking HERE.

I will let you know where to meet the group.

Please bring gardening gloves (if you have them), water to drink and a hat.

Thank you!

Jillian