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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
Hi Pickers!
After rain and holiday delays were getting back in the picking groove!
I hope you can join us this Sunday, June 2 from 2 – 4 PM!
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
Hi Pickers!
Who knew we’d still be picking citrus in June???
I hope you can join us this Sunday, June 16 from 2 – 4 PM!
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
Help Save Our Monarchs by Planting Milkweed and Flower Seeds!
Last Thanksgiving, only 28,429 monarchs were counted in their wintering colonies compared to a historic population of about 10 million in the Western Monarch migration. Today monarchs face several challenges, the most intractable being a lack of milkweed (Asclepias spp.), where females typically lay their eggs, as well as a lack of winter blooming nectar plants to feed them along their journey. They are also being decimated by the increased use of glyphosate in agriculture, which kills milkweed and other sources of food for these butterflies.
If you have a sunny, open 4′ x 4′ space where you could plant milkweed and butterfly flowers – you could be part of the solution!
At this special workshop we will talk about how to plant and maintain a butterfly garden, then help you plant California native milkweed (and other flower seeds) so you can create your own butterfly garden. You will leave with milkweed, winter blooming flowers and information on how to help the monarchs!