Volunteer Opportunities!

Permaculture Convergence July 7th and 8th- contact Kait at convergence@urbanpermacultureguld.org

Ploughshares Nursery http://www.ploughsharesnursery.com/

Every Wednesday from 9am-3pm come help build Ploughshares Nursery at the old Naval Base in Alameda. We are starting a 4 acre native, edible and other useful permaculture plants that is employing formerly homeless youth and adults from the East Bay. We are sponsered by the Alameda Point Collaborative, a non-profit housing organization that has 34 acres and 500 residents. Come learn how to build a nursery from the ground up, including plant propagation, building tables and benches, natural building with bamboo, planting food forests and other permaculture demonstration gardens. for more background, check out www.ploughsharesnursery.com and www.apcollaborative.org directions with maps are on the website, but the basic directions are: from broadway in downtown oakland take the webster tunnel to alameda and turn right on atlantic ave. (first light and at the corner of the college of alameda) go down a few lights and then turn right again on main st. then turn left at the first light on w. midway ave. and right at barber's point road and stay to the right. past the basketball courts there are large piles of woodchips and now a fenced area and demonstration gardens.
questions?

Contact info@ploughsharesnursery.com for more info

Ploughshares Nursery Spring Volunteer Opportunities

Ploughshares Nursery is an ecological and organic
nursery featuring edibles (vegetables, herbs, and
fruit), natives and Mediterranean landscape plants for
low maintenance and wildlife gardens, as well as
bamboo for screening and construction. Ploughshares
Nursery employs formerly homeless youth and adults in
a jobs training program. We are a community based
business and greatly appreciate extra hands. We are
located at 2701 Main Street in Alameda.

Volunteers are needed for the following:
Assist with our plant sales: Answer questions that the
public might have about plants and organic gardening,
and also assist with conducting surveys and research
to determine potential markets. – Every Saturday from
10am to 3pm at the Nursery

Lead a volunteer group: We have large groups of
volunteers coming to help us build and expand the
nursery. We will be creating demonstration gardens,
putting together display racks and benches, making
pathways and more.

Join us for Weekly Community Volunteer Days every
Wednesday from 8am-4pm Join us to build the nursery,
maintain the plant stock, propagate new plants,
install the demonstration gardens and lots more! Come
ready to get your hands dirty. Bring a lunch.

Directions to the nursery are at
www.ploughsharesnursery.com

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City Slicker Farms is happy to announce that we have a new farming
site--an acre of land on a south-facing slope in Orinda just off the
HWY 24 and Orinda BART station. We will be creating a vegetable
farm and fruit orchard there and plan to market all the produce
through our farm stands in West Oakland.

We will be having monthly volunteer workdays the First Sunday of
each month from 10am-2pm and welcome all volunteers for this
beginning phase of planting cover crops, creating paths, mapping out
beds and irrigation, installing fencing and planting trees (this
phase should take around 6 months).

Robin Galas is coordinating this garden, so if you have any
questions or suggestions or would like to volunteer please contact
her at robingalas@gmail.com.


69 Oak Road in Orinda (take HWY 24 or BART to Orinda exit; South on Moraga; West on Stein;
North onOak). If you take BART you will need a bike since it's about 1 mile
down the road. Here is a link to a map so you can get there:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?address=69%20Oak%20Rd&city=Orinda&state=CA&zipcode=94563%2d3322&country=US&title=%3cb%3e69%20Oak%20Rd%3c%2fb%3e%3cbr%20%2f%3e%20Orinda%2c%20CA%2094563%2d3322%2c%20%20US&cid=lfmaplink2&name=
Thanks!
Willow
Willow Rosenthal,
Founding Director
cityslickerfarms@riseup.net

CITY SLICKER FARMS
Growing affordable fresh produce for West Oakland
510-763-4241
737 Henry Street
Oakland, CA 94607

LOCATIONS
Center Street Farm, The Annex Farm, West Oakland Wilds Farm, The
Secret Garden, Ralph Bunche School Nursery, Jubilee West Garden &
Mandela Farmer's Market

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Second Sundays at sol http://oaklandsol.org/

Well now that we have all of this work to do, we decided to regularize our
volunteer opportunities. So many of you have expressed interest in
helping out, and we want to make it as easy as possible. Soooooooo, we
are proud to introduce Second Sunday’s at sol!!

Every second Sunday of the month, any or all of the time between 11am and 5pm, we encourage you to come on out and be a part of whatever needs doing in our gardens, from
building raised beds and weeding, to installing irrigation systems and
planting.

There’s always more to do! Come learn while you work, have a meal with us, share ideas with other wonderful experienced folks and help us fulfill our slogan: sustaining ourselves locally, growing community.

Please RSVP if you’re thinking about coming so that we know how many people to plan for! 510.534.9987 and don’t forget to spread the word!