Special thanks to the students at Expressions College for patiently working with us to produce this video to describe visually what 1stSaturdays is all about in 30 seconds.
Start a 1stsaturdays in your community today! But more importantly, continue to grow your program each month!
http://1stsaturdays.com
Spring 2013 Plant Sale This Weekend!
The Merritt College Landscape Horticulture Department’s Spring Plant
Sale will be held the first weekend in May — May 4 and 5, 2013.
Saturday May 4, 9am-3pm — Plant Fair! Plants, Food, Music, and Vendors.
Sunday May 5, noon-3pm — Plants Only.
On Saturday, our Plant Fair will be accompanied by Food, Music and
Vendors! Companies represented will include Tree Wolf, The Urban
Farmer Store, Irrigation Equipment Co. and Hida Tool.
Plants available will include:
Heirloom annual spring and summer vegetable starts including over 50
varieties of Tomatoes including ultra-early, heirlooms and hybrids, 20
varieties of Peppers for the Bay Area, more than 10 varieties of
heirloom Beans, fog tolerant Melons, many varieties of Cucumbers,
Squash and Corn, 8 varieties of Kale, 13 varieties of Broccoli and
Cauliflower, 8 varieties of Chard, and many types of Cabbage,
Collards, and other spring greens and salad crops.
Rare fog-tolerant grapes like Emeryville Pink, Baharat Early, Venus
and Early Muscat.
Unusual perennial greens like Okinawa Spinach, Malabar Spinach, and
Erba Stella (Minutina), Sea Beet, Tree Collards and more.
Unique perennial and Andean vegetables: Yacon, Mashua, Ulluco, Cape
Gooseberry (Inca berry), Perennial Arugula, Artichoke, Asparagus, and
more.
Attractive edible fruiting shrubs: Chilean Guava, Strawberry Guava,
Che (Melonberry), Mora de Castilla, Maqui Berry
Cool-summer adapted fruit trees and vines like: Passionfruit, Kiwi,
Hardy Kiwi, Boysenberry, Ollallieberry, Raspberry, Eversweet
Pomegranate, Negronne Fig, Black Mission Fig, and Trovita Orange.
A wide selection of Four Winds plants such as Dwarf Citrus, Avocados
and Blueberries at affordable prices.
Permaculture nitrogen-fixers and guild builders; Leucaena, Comfrey,
Horseradish, and more.
Also a wide variety of California natives (including edible natives),
Mediterranean climate plants (Australia, South Africa, Chile) and
unusual perennials.
Current Spring 2013 plant inventory listed here:
http://merrittlandhort.com/wp-
Oakland Seed Exchange
Saturday, March 9th 11:30 am-1:30 pm
Dimond Branch Library
3565 Fruitvale Avenue
For more information please call (510) 482-7844 or
Co-hosted by Phat BeetsProduce, Planting Justice, Movement Generation, PLACE for Sustainable Living, and Occupy the Farm
Neighborhoods throughout the East Bay are under attack from development, gentrification and repression. At the same time, there are ongoing struggles to keep our neighborhoods whole, and take back land for food and housing. Join a community forum to learn and share what is going on.
With panelists including Nyame Selassie of People’s Grocery, Melvin Dickson of the Black Panther Party, Mona Trevino of ROOTS, and members of Phat Beets Produce.
Following the panel, the forum will discuss how we can work together to strengthen local struggles for land, food, and power — at the Gill Tract Farm and beyond.
This Thursday, November 15th, 6:30-9:30pm
@ The PLACE for Sustainable Living
At 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA 94608.
[1 block west of San Pablo Ave and 1 block south of Alcatraz Ave]
Dinner (made with pumpkins grown at the Gill Tract) will be served!
Occupy the Farm will be distributing winter starts (greens/kale/collards)
FREE!
Welcome to Mo’ Better Food!
In 1996, we asked the question: who will bring fresh healthy food to the African American Community?
The answer – African American farmers!
Since the Mo’ Better Food Conference in 1996, we have sought to reconnect African American farmers back into our neighborhoods.
We held the first farmers market at a school sit in Oakland and maybe California (maybe the U.S.) that sold produce grown by African American farmers. Our plans were to start with a farmers market as a business model to train students to eventually own and operate a grocery store in the neighborhood.
In 2002, we received a collaboration grant to expand our farmers market for one year and to plan and work for a grocery store in West Oakland for the next two years by the United States Department of Agriculture.
This collaboration was known as the Mo’ Better Food and the West Oakland Food Collaborative partnership. Since we started it, I became the co-director of this project.
The Mandela Food’s Cooperative is open for business today. It is an example of a cooperative grocery that actually started from the farmers market held at a local high school (McClymonds high school).
Mandela Food’s cooperative has been spearheaded by my then co-director Dana Harvey and the rest is history…
The future is to take our model of starting with a farmers market and establishing grocery stores in every community similar to the low-income demographics of West Oakland.
The future is building Healthy Economics in every low-income, under-served community on the planet.
Follow my process to make this happen at http://twitter.com/hotepsadventure
Hotep!
DR