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Feb
8
Sat
2020
Project Tree Workshop @ Rhythmix Cultural Works
Feb 8 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Following on its 2019 success, Project Tree announces the return of its Tree Care Workshop and $25 off Tree Coupon Program.

This year’s workshops will be held Saturday, February 8 from 10 AM to 12 Noon and Sunday, March 1 from 2 PM to 4 PM at Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda.

While anyone is welcome to attend this workshop, only residents of the City of Alameda with proof of residence may receive the coupon, which is worth $25 off any tree from Encinal Nursery, 2057 Encinal Avenue, or Ploughshares Nursery, 2701 Main Street in Alameda Point. The coupon will be redeemable from the day of receipt at the workshop until June 30, 2020.

Project Tree is a partnership between The Alameda Sun and Alameda Backyard Growers.

Mar
1
Sun
2020
Project Tree Workshop @ Rhythmix Cultural Works
Mar 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Following on its 2019 success, Project Tree announces the return of its Tree Care Workshop and $25 off Tree Coupon Program.

This year’s workshops will be held Saturday, February 8 from 10 AM to 12 Noon and Sunday, March 1 from 2 PM to 4 PM at Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda.

While anyone is welcome to attend this workshop, only residents of the City of Alameda with proof of residence may receive the coupon, which is worth $25 off any tree from Encinal Nursery, 2057 Encinal Avenue, or Ploughshares Nursery, 2701 Main Street in Alameda Point. The coupon will be redeemable from the day of receipt at the workshop until June 30, 2020.

Project Tree is a partnership between The Alameda Sun and Alameda Backyard Growers.

Apr
18
Sat
2020
CANCELLED – Earth Day 2020 @ Upper Washington Park
Apr 18 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Sadly, due to COVID-19, the City of Alameda has cancelled the Earth Day festival in Washington Park. Please celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day by supporting your favorite environmental organization, or participating in any of the many online events via many environmental non-profits.

Take care and stay healthy! Alameda Backyard Growers

Come and visit our booth at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Earth Day! We’ll have tomato plants to buy, information to share (on growing food, going plastic free, planting trees, etc.).

You may also have the opportunity to plant trees around Washington Park.

We’ll be sharing our booth with StopWaste – so you can learn more about stopping food waste, urban carbon farming and much more!

If you’d like to volunteer at our booth, please email us: info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org

Looking forward to seeing you there!

ABG Earth Day Volunteers 2018

Jun
23
Tue
2020
Tour of Italo’s Garden at the Alameda Boys and Girls Club @ Alameda Boys and Girls Club
Jun 23 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Italo's GardenAlameda Backyard Growers invites you to attend a

Self-guided Tour of Italo’s Garden 

Tuesday, June 23 2020
Italo’s Garden (ABGC)1900 3rd Street, Alameda, CA, 94501  

6:30-7:15pm 20 people/tickets
7:15-8:00pm 20 people/tickets

More information on the ABGC Garden

In 2012 the Alameda Boys & Girls Club had a vision to transform a neighboring ¼ acre urban lot into a thriving healthy foods and habitat garden that would support the nutritional health and develop the ecological literacy of Club youth. In summer of 2013 the Club hired its first Seed to Table Director, Kristen Getler. Italo Calpestri, together with other Board Members and ABGC staff, began fundraising and reaching out to community partners like GoDaddy to enlist in help with projects such as building and filling the raised beds. His background as an architect and experience on the board was instrumental to the garden’s successful and accessible installation. A keystone of the Club’s Health and Wellness Initiative, the garden provides a living, outdoor classroom where youth steward the garden using organic practices to grow annual and perennial food crops. A complementary culinary education program teaches our youth how to prepare the garden-fresh produce into healthy-foods recipes they are able to share with their families. Current Seed to Table Director Gretchen Doering took over in March 2015 and continued the installation of fifteen additional planter beds, a bioswale, greenhouse and outdoor classroom. The garden continues to grow with support from local Eagle Scout projects, the Alameda Garden Club, Alameda Backyard Growers, invaluable volunteers, and other generous donors.

Click here for a downloadable map of the garden tour. 

Click here for the downloadable Alameda Boys & Girls Club – Italo’s Garden Master Plant Descriptions

Click here for a downloadable list of plants in Italo’s Garden.

Alameda Boys and Girls Club garden

Eric Kos and Italo Calpestri look on while Marla Koss and Gretchen Doering teach kids how to plant a fig tree.

Dec
10
Thu
2020
Acta Non Verba Benefit Concert @ Online
Dec 10 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Per Aspera Ad Astra: From Adversity to the Stars

Benefit Concert with Black Violin

December 10, 2020 from 4 – 7 PM Live Streaming

Acta Non Verba Celebrates 10 Years!

Get tickets here

Acta Non Verba benefit concert

Dec
12
Sat
2020
Help Franklin Park Trees with Mulching Project @ Franklin Park
Dec 12 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

100K Trees 4 Humanity is back mulching trees!

This Saturday 12/12 – 9am-12pm
@ Franklin Park. 1432 San Antonio Ave. 
map: https://goo.gl/maps/R2bkhKqecwPDMAyz8

10:30am-12pm @Washington Park
740 Central Ave., Alameda, CA
map: https://goo.gl/maps/aLDF1xuALVbard17A

Join us and Alameda Recreation and Parks Department (ARPD) as we work to help save these trees on this day of mulching!

First 40 people to sign up get to volunteer.  Signup here!

Masks are mandatory. We follow a strict COVID protocol of social distancing and work procedures found here. We ask all participants to adhere to these guidelines at all events and work projects.

Tools: We are providing mulch, buckets, wheelbarrows and shovels. 

Optional: If you want, bring your own gloves, water bottle, and shovel.

See you on the 12th!

Tree Mulching Franklin Park

Jan
15
Fri
2021
Container Gardening Presentation
Jan 15 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Container Gardening Presentation

Container Gardening Presentation, January 15 at 1:00pm via Zoom

Are you interested in learning more about container gardening? With limited space, container gardening gives you the opportunity for cost-effective, manageable gardening. Jeff Bridge, Ploughshares Nursery Manager, will be discussing container gardening in a meeting hosted by the Alameda Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Jeff’s presentation, followed by questions and answers, is expected to last one hour.

Register in advance for this presentation here.

Jan
21
Thu
2021
StopWaste SWEET Online Course Deadline
Jan 21 all-day

The deadline to register is January 21, 2021!

StopWaste SWEET Training

Apr
20
Tue
2021
Build Healthy Soil by Sheet Mulching
Apr 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Lori Caldwell

Sheet mulching is an easy and efficient technique for saving water, recycling resources, suppressing weeds and building healthy soil. Please join Lori Caldwell as she discusses the steps for this process as well as her own tips and tricks for how to sheet mulch. Please bring all your questions!

Lori Caldwell is an Alameda County Master Composter, self taught edible gardener and residential sheet mulch maven. Her mission is to “connect people to the soil and all that it provides”. She has been happily teaching sustainable gardening classes and transforming yards in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007.

Register on Eventbrite

Jun
26
Sat
2021
Alameda Free Library presents Edible Garden Basics, a virtual gardening program
Jun 26 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Alameda Free Library presents Edible Garden Basics, a virtual gardening program

The Alameda Free Library invites you to attend Edible Garden Basics, an exciting virtual gardening program.

UC Master Gardener Susan Fritz will review the importance of selecting a planting site for sun/shade, improving and preparing your soil, watering, mulching, fertilizing, deciding what to plant, and keeping pests at an acceptable level. Making the right decisions about all of these items will lead to a plentiful harvest! Join our fun gardening event and learn the essentials to be a successful vegetable gardener.

Susan became a Master Gardener in May 2014, and has led the Speaker’s Bureau for five years. She enjoys teaching the public about gardening and how they can improve the methods they use to make their gardens more sustainable.

The event will be hosted by the Alameda Free Library via Zoom. A brief Q&A will follow the presentation.
WHAT: Edible Garden Basics, an exciting virtual gardening program
WHERE: Zoom!
WHEN: June 26, 11:00 am
HOW: Register online before the event to receive a link to the event
Please contact Jenny Gillette at refdesk@alamedaca.gov with any questions. For more information about library programs, please visit www.alamedafree.org/Events-directory/Calendar or contact the Main Library at 510-747-7740 during Library Takeout hours, Monday 2:00pm-7:00pm and Tuesday-Friday 12:00pm-5:00pm.