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Apr
20
Sat
2024
Alameda’s Spring Shindig & Plant Sale @ Alameda Point Gym & Field
Apr 20 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Come and find the ABG booth on April 20, 2024 from 12Noon - 3PM for our Annual Plant Sale!

Alameda Backyard Growers volunteers had so much fun offering our selection of organic tomato, veggie, flower and herb starts at ARPD’s Spring Shindig in 2023, we’re doing it again! Join us, rain or shine, along with a field full of vendors, bouncy houses and other activities at the Alameda Point Gym & Field, 1101 W. Redline Avenue on Saturday, April 20th, 2023.

As always, we grow tomato starts that we know from our own experience do well in Alameda. We’ll also offer cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, winter squash, peppers, basil and sage. Our selection of neonicotinoid-free flower starts will attract bees, butterflies and other pollinators to your garden; this year we’ll be offering starts of scabiosa (pincushion flower), tithonia, cosmos, marigolds, nasturtiums, sunflowers and more.

A coloring book table will keep kids busy (or give them a quiet moment after the bouncy houses!) while you peruse the plant starts and get caught up in typical gardening conversations.

Please bring a container to carry your treasures home.

Let's celebrate another winter of plentiful rain (and Sierra snowpack!) and gardening – for ourselves and our families, for the sake of Mother Earth, or just for the sheer pleasure of it all!

ABG Plant Sale Spring Shindig

 

May
18
Sat
2024
Pollinators – Learn to Attract Them and Help them Thrive @ The Gardens at Lake Merritt
May 18 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Tora Rocha, co-founder of Pollinator Posse and formerly Parks Supervisor for the City of Oakland, will lead a tour of the various pollinator habitats at the Gardens of Lake Merritt and help us learn how to keep a healthy ecosystem thriving in our own gardens. 

The Pollinator Garden is located next to the Bonsai Garden, just northwest by a few steps. On Google Maps, it’s labeled “Bee Hotel Garden.”

There is a fee for parking.

This event is hosted by the Master Gardeners of Alameda County.

Seed starting and planting for pollinators

May
23
Thu
2024
Alameda Food Bank Tour & Volunteer Work Project @ Alameda Food Bank
May 23 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Alameda Food Bank Tour & Volunteer Work Project @ Alameda Food Bank | Alameda | California | United States

Join us for a tour and work party with our partner, the Alameda Food Bank!

Since 2011, to feed our neighbors and reduce food waste, Alameda Backyard Growers has encouraged local fruit tree owners to request that our volunteers pick their excess fruit. In those 13 years, ABG volunteers have gleaned and delivered more than 66,000 pounds of fresh fruit to the Alameda Food Bank. This ongoing, mutual collaboration between these two not-for-profits remains strong to this day. Together, we still reduce food insecurity and food waste. If you’ve never had the chance to visit the Alameda Food Bank or volunteer for them, here is your chance to do just that.

We will learn how the AFB operates, who is eligible to receive food there, how to volunteer, etc. We’ll do miscellaneous chores including cleaning shelves, restocking food, sorting food, etc.

Wear warm, comfortable clothes and closed-toed shoes.

Restrooms, drinking water, camaraderie are available.

Space is limited to 20, so sign up here!

After this work project event, you are welcome to remain at Alameda Point to socialize with your fellow volunteers at the nearby Firebrand Bread, Almanac Beer Co., etc. on West Tower Avenue.