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Alameda Backyard Growers will once again have a table with our our Spring Plant Sale at this fun community event! ABG volunteers have worked hard and had fun preparing for weeks to be able to offer you a selection of organic tomato, veggie, flower and herb starts!

As always, we grow tomato starts that we know from our own experience do well in Alameda. This year, we took some hints from our February Tomato Poll and selected what you told us you would love to grow. We’re also growing starts of cucumbers, zucchini, squash, peppers, and herbs. Due to last year’s popular demand, we’ve increased our offering of flower starts. Attract bees, butterflies and other pollinators to your garden, secure in the knowledge that our flower starts have been grown from organic seed, and are free of neonicotinoids.

We’ll also have activities for kids, and information on all the programs and projects ABG does around growing and sharing food in our community.

Join us, rain or shine, along with a field full of vendors, bouncy houses and other activities at the Alameda Point Gym & Field and get there early before supplies run out! Let’s celebrate spring and gardening – for ourselves and our families, for the sake of Mother Earth, or just for the sheer pleasure of it all!

Everyone is invited to attend the Spring Open Garden at the Native Habitat Garden at Bay Farm School (200 Aughinbaugh Way) on Saturday, May 17 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon.

This award-winning garden is more than just a school garden. It’s an incredible collection of native plants, a passion project for Mr. Nettles (1st Grade teacher at Bay Farm and native plant expert), and is turning into an educational space through a native plant phenology project being conducted by students and teachers.

The garden was recently featured in an article in the Alameda Post, written by Kristen Smeal and Mr. Nettles, and was also a stop along the US Dept. of Education Green Strides 2023 tour.

Celebrate the beauty of native plants in full spring bloom at the school’s Bay Farm Native Habitat Garden! Stroll through the garden at your own pace, enjoy the seasonal colors, and discover how native plants support local wildlife.

At 11:00 AM, don’t miss a special talk by Mr. Nettles, who will share insights into native gardening, habitat restoration, and how you can make a difference in your own backyard. This is a free, family-friendly event—everyone is welcome

Learn the basics of composting and how to turn your food scraps into rich soil for your garden – because compost happens! Lori Caldwell of StopWaste will be doing a hands-on demonstration at Ploughshares Nursery.

Learn:

• How easy it is to transform yard and food waste into gardener’s gold
• The benefits of composting
• How to make, harvest and use composted soil
• Hot and cold composting, Hugelkultur and worm composting.

Join us and have fun!