The Bay Farm Free Library Needs Your Help!
Looking for a few folks who like to garden and don’t mind getting their hands in the dirt.
WHY YOU ASK?
If you are interested in signing up for a PLANTING PARTY on Saturday November 18 at 1:00 p.m (weather permitting).
Please contact Lynda at (510)747-7787 or
lwilliam@alamedaca.gov
Plan to bring work gloves and any garden tools you think might be helpful
Refreshments will be available
BECAUSE: The Bay Farm Island Library has received a wonderful gift of:
250 Daffodil bulbs (and some irises). They will look so beautiful come spring but, for that to happen the bulbs need to go in ground before the end of the month.
We can increase production, improve appearance, and insure overall health of our fruit trees with dormant-season pruning. Learn how and when to cut back your trees for maximum food production, as well as the basics of water-retention, pest management and tool maintenance.
Jeremy is the founder of Edible Ecology, a permaculture-based landscaping company in the East Bay.
He has studied fruit tree care extensively and enjoys sharing his knowledge with others.
Learn more about Edible Ecology at edibleecology.net
John Wilson is here from Oklahoma to give one of his renowned grafting workshops here in Alameda, Ca. After he demonstrates some of the more popular grafts, such as cleft and whip grafts, attendees will have a chance to practice what they’ve learned on branches and trees in Jasmine’s garden. If you have your own grafting knife, please bring it. Jasmine will have knives to lend as well. The garden has more than 20 different fruit trees, (many multi-budded,) and is a great place to learn creative and attractive permaculture techniques. A potluck meal will be shared after the grafting workshop in the garden. Donations appreciated. Please RSVP in comments below on this page, or message Jasmine directly, so we can assure you a spot and give you the street address. We’ll schedule a second workshop for Sunday afternoon, same time if we get more than 12 people signed up. (Don’t worry, the TV will be on in the living room during Super bowl and we will break for half time) We look forward to seeing you!
Find the perfect Valentine’s Day gift at our special plant sale on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 9am – 1:30pm. We have a large variety of lush indoor plants and beautiful pots. All proceeds go towards keeping the Plant Exchange free and open to the public. See photos and flyer at http://theplantexchange.
Come and visit our booth at the 2018 Alameda Earth Day Festival! We’ll have fun activities for children, educational items for adults, and tomato starts for sale!
Permi-curious? Hear stories from real, on the ground, projects showing ways we can meet our needs while being beneficial to all life. Hear stories about Permaculture design. If you love good food, regenerative farming, natural building, community building, renewable energy and are curious about a design system that ties it all together then come check out this free introduction.
We’ll discuss practical ways you can use permaculture design in your life to grow your own healthy food, harvest and clean your own water, build your own home, transition your career, reduce your carbon footprint and increase your carbon rootprint while building lasting, quality community relationships with people that share your values.
Taught by David Cody of the Urban Permaculture Institute. To learn more about permaculture design trainings in the SF Bay Area, visit the Urban Permaculture Institute at www.UPISF.com.
Happy Earth Month! What are you doing to show the earth some love? Food Shift invites you to join us on May 18th to learn how you can help reduce wasted food to create healthy communities and a healthy planet.
In the U.S. 40% of the food produced is wasted, and if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of green house gases. By recovering food, we are saving Earth’s precious resources that would have been wasted and the harmful greenhouse gases emitted in disposal. Last year Food Shift recovered 35,000 lbs of food, which is equivalent to the carbon footprint of driving accross the United States 10 times!
We are connecting the dots between wasted food and the contradictory fact that 1 in 7 people are food insecure in the U.S. and many face high barriers to employment. Food Shift sees these interconnected problems as an opportunity to create a scalable and replicable model that integrates education, environmental sustainability, and workforce development as part of a holistic vision for healthy communities and individuals. This is the vision of The Food Shift Kitchen.
Tour The Food Shift Kitchen and enjoy a delicious vegetarian buffet meal made from recovered produce. All proceeds from the event go directly to supporting Food Shift’s efforts to recover more food, feed more people, and create more jobs.
Capacity is limited, purchase tickets soon.
This 19th of May, APC invites you to eat, celebrate, and advocate for a great cause at the Alameda Point Collaborative Farm. Give extra meaning to words strength, home, and growth.
APC will be hosting its annual fundraiser on May 19th from 1pm to 3pm. This farm to table experience will happen in the center of APCs 2 acre urban farm and, will include a completely organic and sustainable meal prepared with produce sourced directly from the farm.
Alameda Point Collaborative hosts this unique and elevated fundraiser ever year to raise funds for its residents living within its supportive housing community on the decommissioned Naval Base at Alameda Point. With every dollar raised, APC is given more support in its mission against fighting homelessness and poverty.
So, we ask that you join us for a beautiful meal on the farm and open your hearts to the beautiful community that is APC. May 21st, give the gift of strength, home and kindness at Alameda Point Collaboratives Urban Farm to Table Luncheon.
The City of Alameda is now a leader in reducing plastic pollution!
Join us May 30th (6-8 pm) for the award-winning documentary STRAWS, and meet the woman who inspired Alameda’s local student movement to eliminate plastic straws (and now all plastic food ware) in Alameda.
DETAILS:
Jackie Nunez, founder of The Last Plastic Straw, will present an award to the City. Jackie will show a special presentation of the 30-minute film “Straws” (narrated by Tim Robbins) which highlights impacts of plastic pollution and how communities across the nation, like Alameda, are making a difference. ReThink Disposable Youth Ambassadors (local high school students) will present new findings.
Alameda is an island impacted on all sides by marine litter, mostly single- use plastic food packaging. Last year, Clean Water Action’s ReThink Disposable program selected Alameda for its groundbreaking community-wide project, Unpackaging Alameda, where over 100 restaurants throughout the city are being recruited to reduce disposable food ware in favor of reusables.
On May 30th, The ReThink Disposable Youth Ambassadors will present their findings, celebrate the ReThink Disposable restaurants in Alameda (over 40 already signed-up!), and inspire us as we make our transformation toward a plastic-free Alameda.
Sponsored by CASA, Clean Water Action/Clean Water Fund, and City of Alameda’s waste reduction initiatives. This is a FREE event. All attendees will receive their very own reusable, metal straw!
Take the mystery out of tree pruning with this hands-on workshop! Learn the basics and leave with skills you can start using immediately.
Topics covered include:
- How trees grow
- Why pruning keeps trees healthier
- How trees react to pruning
- Seasonal pruning
- How to prune properly
- Common pruning mistakes
- Identifying a properly pruned true
and more!
The workshop will also include a show-and-tell of different types of wood, branches, branch collars, compartmentalization of decay in trees. Bring your questions and come prepared for a fun interactive learning experience.
Tony Wolcott is a Certified Landscape Horticulturalist, Certified Irrigation Designer, Board Certified Master Arborist, Master Composter, and Bay Friendly Designer. His work experience includes being the urban forester at the Cities of Albany and San Francisco, non-profit work with Friends of the Urban Forest, Our City Forest, and arborist representative with Bartlett Tree Experts. Currently he is professor of Arboriculture within the Horticulture division of the Biology Department at Diablo Valley College.