with Jeff Bridge, of Ploughshares Nursery
Saturday, July 22, 6:00 – 7:00 PM
Ploughshares Nursery, 2701 Main Street, Alameda Point
Want to branch out from tomatoes and lettuce? Looking for new ideas as you plan your fall garden? Join us for an early evening event at Ploughshares Nursery. Jeff Bridge, Ploughshares manager, will introduce us to some unusual fruits and vegetables to add variety to your garden.
Logistics:
- Refreshments will be served.
- Please bring a folding chair.
- Note date, time and place!
About the Speaker: Jeff Bridge has worked over half his life in nurseries all over the Bay Area, including Orchard Nursery and Florist of Lafayette, Far West Nursery in Santa Cruz and Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco. As manager of Ploughshares Nursery he is grateful for the opportunity to focus on native, drought tolerant and edible gardening to benefit society as well as working to end homelessness, as all profits at Ploughshares are used to maintain supportive housing on the old Alameda Naval Base for formerly homeless families and individuals.
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.
Learn about growing citrus in Alameda with Jeff Bridge, General Manager of Ploughshares Nursery.
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.
with Lori Slicton, Old Schoolhouse Raw Honey
February 20, 2018, 7 to 8:30 pm
Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda
Join us for an introduction to the wonderful world of bees and beekeeping. We’ll learn about the importance of bees and beekeeping and why the urban food farmer might want to add them to her plot. Then Lori will provide us with an overview of beekeeping and we’ll taste some Alameda honey.
About our speaker: Lori Slicton lives in Alameda and keeps honeybees both in Alameda and in the Sonora foothills. Through Old Schoolhouse Raw Honey, she makes and sells honey, natural remedies, and other bee-related products.
with Maricelle Cardenas of Stopwaste.org
Learn about spring pests with Master Gardeners of Alameda County (MGAC).