Hi Farmers,
Just wanted to send a quick note with some updates of life on the farm.
FUNK TOWN NEWSLETTER
WATERING SCHEDULE:
The watering schedule is full (thanks guys!) Watering volunteers should have gotten an invite to see the google calendar with their assignments. I'm trying to figure out how to get it to send you each a reminder based on who's spoda' do what, but I'm not that advanced on google yet....
SATURDAY WORK SCHEDULE:
Jess will be at the Farm to host an abbreviated work schedule from around 10am to noon.
(NOTE: IF YOU ARE FREE CONSIDER ATTENDING THE COMPOSTING WORKSHOP INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE FARM THIS SATURDAY)
Some things that need to be done on the farm are:
Turn Skye's compost note into a wooden sign. See Jess for wood and paints or a permanent marker.
Turn the Compost. We want to make sure it gets movement at every level, even when it's low.
Add sticks to the compost. While it's low, we want a good base of woody things that brake down slowly and allow air to pass through. Help Jess collect the pile of sticks that the city left near my house.
Plant the new flowers. Jess can help you figure out where.
COMPOSTERS NEEDED:
Skye Livingston is the new Compost Queen! She needs a team to help her manage it so good dirt is made faster. Please contact skye (yogaskye@gmail.com) if you'd like to be on the "composting team."
COMPOST CLASS ON SATURDAY:
Skye recommends this to ALL gardeners who add to our compost or any other compost. Consider attending the class like volunteering at FunkTown (since it's the same time this week) And, its FREE!
Compost Workshop - no registration required
Saturday, March 27 – Basic Backyard Composting
10 AM – 12 Noon Bay-Friendly Demonstration Garden, Lakeside Park, 666 Bellevue Ave., Oakland ($3/car parking fee)
Learn how to make gardening gold – compost –right in your own backyard using plant trimmings and food scraps. This hands on class covers all the how-to’s of building, trouble shooting and harvesting compost.
http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp?page=625
Showing posts with label Funktown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Funktown. Show all posts
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
FRESH - The movie screening and art show
FRESH: New thinking about what we’re eating
COME SEE FRESH THE MOVIE
RSVP at the Facebook Event Page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=298018025674
March 13, 2010
Where: Regeneration Church, 238 E 15th St. Oakland
FREE VALET BIKE PARKING
Time: 6pm – Doors open for
Art Show "DIGEST", Food Vendors, CSA Info booths
7pm - Show starts
Wath the trailer: www.freshthemovie.com
Enjoy food from Oakland vendors like Taco Grill,
proudly serving Niman Ranch Beef in Fruitvale.
Meet the Farmers:
Sign up for a CSA that delivers fresh food in your neighborhood
like Eatwell Farm featured on the History Channel
or Shooting Star located only 40 miles from Berkeley.
Participating Vendors and Organizations:
Eat Well Farm - Farming organically in the Sacramento Valley since 1993. Voted Best Local Produce Delivery Service/CSA in 2008 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian Best of the Bay.
Signing up new CSA members
Shooting Star CSA - Small scale, local, wonderful. Top quality produce is our pride, and
growing it is our joy. Local food security is our civic duty. Our mission at Shooting Star CSA is to provide our customers with nourishing, nutritionally dense vegetables and melons that are the
best they’ve ever had! Signing up new CSA members
Farm Fresh to You - Currently over 6,000 families are participating in our family farm's CSA, Farm Fresh To You. By joining our CSA these families are connecting directly to our farm and receiving regular deliveries of nutrient rich, mouth watering, organic produce delivered directly to their home or office. Signing up new CSA members
Tomatero Farms - Pick up a box of fresh, organic tomatoes grown in Wastonville, CA right in your own neighborhood! Or visit is at the Grand Lake Farmers Market every Saturday in Oakland. Signing up new tomato CSA members for summer 2010.
Phat Beet Farms - Providing equal, affordable access to organic fresh fruits and vegetables, grains and legumes to North Oakland families through wholesale pricing. Facilitates youth in leadership roles engaging their peers in healthy eating and nutrition discussions through fruit and vegetable sampling. Connecting small farmers to urban communities via the creation of farm stands and farmers markets in local establishments.
People's Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that develops creative solutions to the health problems in our community that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods. Our mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community.
Middle school students from Oakland School for the Arts will be selling the
East Bay Eco Metro Guide , a fundraiser for the school and a great resource for local groceries, Farmers Markets, and CSA's. One lucky raffle winner will win a free Eco Metro Guide!
Earth Box - Our maintenance-free, award-winning, high-tech growing system controls soil conditions, eliminates guesswork and more than doubles the yield of a conventional garden-with less fertilizer, less water and virtually no effort.
Funk Town Farm - We are Funk Town Farm, a community garden located in the area known to locals as “funk town” in East Oakland. The garden was started in 2008 behind 219 East 15th Street at 3rd Avenue and two blocks up from Lake Merrit.
Regeneration Church - Regeneration Church has graciously offered its building for this community event. Regeneration is a group of believers in Jesus Christ who desire peace, well being, and opportunity for the people of Oakland. Regen believes in caring for creation and caring for its neighbors and is active in improving its neighborhood through community gardening, feeding the homeless, Tae Kwon Do classes for youth, and supporting neighborhood groups.
If you or your organization would like to participate as a volunteer, vendor or sponsor, contact Betsy Johnson, betsy.tyler@gmail.com
COME SEE FRESH THE MOVIE
RSVP at the Facebook Event Page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=298018025674
March 13, 2010
Where: Regeneration Church, 238 E 15th St. Oakland
FREE VALET BIKE PARKING
Time: 6pm – Doors open for
Art Show "DIGEST", Food Vendors, CSA Info booths
7pm - Show starts
Wath the trailer: www.freshthemovie.com
Enjoy food from Oakland vendors like Taco Grill,
proudly serving Niman Ranch Beef in Fruitvale.
Meet the Farmers:
Sign up for a CSA that delivers fresh food in your neighborhood
like Eatwell Farm featured on the History Channel
or Shooting Star located only 40 miles from Berkeley.
Participating Vendors and Organizations:
Eat Well Farm - Farming organically in the Sacramento Valley since 1993. Voted Best Local Produce Delivery Service/CSA in 2008 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian Best of the Bay.
Signing up new CSA members
Shooting Star CSA - Small scale, local, wonderful. Top quality produce is our pride, and
growing it is our joy. Local food security is our civic duty. Our mission at Shooting Star CSA is to provide our customers with nourishing, nutritionally dense vegetables and melons that are the
best they’ve ever had! Signing up new CSA members
Farm Fresh to You - Currently over 6,000 families are participating in our family farm's CSA, Farm Fresh To You. By joining our CSA these families are connecting directly to our farm and receiving regular deliveries of nutrient rich, mouth watering, organic produce delivered directly to their home or office. Signing up new CSA members
Tomatero Farms - Pick up a box of fresh, organic tomatoes grown in Wastonville, CA right in your own neighborhood! Or visit is at the Grand Lake Farmers Market every Saturday in Oakland. Signing up new tomato CSA members for summer 2010.
Phat Beet Farms - Providing equal, affordable access to organic fresh fruits and vegetables, grains and legumes to North Oakland families through wholesale pricing. Facilitates youth in leadership roles engaging their peers in healthy eating and nutrition discussions through fruit and vegetable sampling. Connecting small farmers to urban communities via the creation of farm stands and farmers markets in local establishments.
People's Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that develops creative solutions to the health problems in our community that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods. Our mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community.
Middle school students from Oakland School for the Arts will be selling the
East Bay Eco Metro Guide , a fundraiser for the school and a great resource for local groceries, Farmers Markets, and CSA's. One lucky raffle winner will win a free Eco Metro Guide!
Earth Box - Our maintenance-free, award-winning, high-tech growing system controls soil conditions, eliminates guesswork and more than doubles the yield of a conventional garden-with less fertilizer, less water and virtually no effort.
Funk Town Farm - We are Funk Town Farm, a community garden located in the area known to locals as “funk town” in East Oakland. The garden was started in 2008 behind 219 East 15th Street at 3rd Avenue and two blocks up from Lake Merrit.
Regeneration Church - Regeneration Church has graciously offered its building for this community event. Regeneration is a group of believers in Jesus Christ who desire peace, well being, and opportunity for the people of Oakland. Regen believes in caring for creation and caring for its neighbors and is active in improving its neighborhood through community gardening, feeding the homeless, Tae Kwon Do classes for youth, and supporting neighborhood groups.
If you or your organization would like to participate as a volunteer, vendor or sponsor, contact Betsy Johnson, betsy.tyler@gmail.com
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Garden Update: 07-19-09
Hi!
Gardeners and friends of Funk Town!! Guess what? I think we have enough gardeners to go ahead and go forward with a schedule!! Please look over the duties to follow and decide which ones (one) you are willing to commit too. If you would like to try it for a month, (or even a week or two) to see if it fits in your schedule that is FINE. Please just let me know. If you are able to make a longer commitment that would be great, but NO pressure! I would ask though, that if you don't specify "week trial" to me, that you give me a weeks notice before you stop watering, weeding, etc.
After you have chosen a duty I'll email you the specifics, and if necessary we can meet up and go over what exactly that duty consists of. I will also give you the gate code so you can come and go from the garden as you choose.
Note, you may choose more than one duty, or change duties as you go, please just give me a weeks notice if you choose to change duties. It would be great if we could all end up training new people as they come in in our areas of (learned) expertise.
THIS IS YOUR GARDEN! It is such a blessing that we are able to share such a special endeavor.
I know a lot of you have just come on board and may not have seen the project vision, so following is the vision for Funk Town Farm;
Funk Town Farm is a community garden behind 219 East 15th Street in Oakland. We are a group of novice and experienced gardeners who want to grow our own produce (and flowers) to use and sell on a sliding scale in the ReGeneration parking lot on Sunday mornings. We also want to raise chickens to have eggs to sell and use, as well as involve the community in "sponsoring a chicken" and composting. Ultimately we would like to provide our neighbors with the opportunity to have fresh organic fruit, veggies and eggs no matter what their socioeconomic status may be.
We feel that gardening as a community not only is a service to that community but to the gardeners as well. Gardening slows us down in an otherwise hectic city, reminding us what is real. We believe that there is no anxiety that digging in the dirt cant cure. We believe that human beings are meant to spend time outdoors. We believe in removing cement. We believe that getting dirty is good not bad. We believe that we can cut back our garbage sent to the landfill by composting AND use it to grow things at the same time. We believe that bugs are better than pesticides. We believe that the taste and smell of a tomato just off the vine can change hearts. We believe that we were created to dig side by side and share stories. We believe that is is true that "God made dirt and dirt wont hurt".
Here is a list of duties;
(Please choose one or two or even three)
An hour worth of work=1 basket of fresh veggies, fruit or flowers at the end of the week*
1.Watering (1/2 hour) Monday, Weds, Friday or Sunday
2.Weeding (1/2 hour) Monday, Thurs, Saturday
3.Chicken feeding/egg gathering and sorting (30minutes) Everyday needed. note: you can earn eggs with this chore
4.Fertilizing Plants (1XWeekly.. day flexible)
5.Pruning and "dead heading" (1XWeekly.. day flexible)
6.Planting (2hours2X per month)
7.Harvesting (1 hour 1Xweek)
8.Organising and bagging harvest for market and give away(2 hours per week can be split between 2 people)
9.Compost turning and watering (15minutes) Monday, Weds, Friday
10.Making sure tools, seeds etc are organized (15 min per week)
11.Resourcing (1 hour per week) This includes tracking down items on craigslist etc.. and organizing pick ups.
12.Letter writing for donations (1-2 hours per month)
*this does not include eggs (to get earn eggs please see Chicken Sponsor email, or choose feeding of chickens as duty)
Let me know what you think you may want to do! I am so excited!!!! Oh, and if you haven't seen the garden yet.. email me and I'll take you back!
-Daphne
PS. If ANYONE knows ANYONE that is a grant writer and wants to trade for organic produce let me know! We don't need, but really, really WANT a grant or two!!!
PSS..PLEASE FWD this email to anyone you know who may be interested in the project. I don't have everyone's email! :) Thanks!
Gardeners and friends of Funk Town!! Guess what? I think we have enough gardeners to go ahead and go forward with a schedule!! Please look over the duties to follow and decide which ones (one) you are willing to commit too. If you would like to try it for a month, (or even a week or two) to see if it fits in your schedule that is FINE. Please just let me know. If you are able to make a longer commitment that would be great, but NO pressure! I would ask though, that if you don't specify "week trial" to me, that you give me a weeks notice before you stop watering, weeding, etc.
After you have chosen a duty I'll email you the specifics, and if necessary we can meet up and go over what exactly that duty consists of. I will also give you the gate code so you can come and go from the garden as you choose.
Note, you may choose more than one duty, or change duties as you go, please just give me a weeks notice if you choose to change duties. It would be great if we could all end up training new people as they come in in our areas of (learned) expertise.
THIS IS YOUR GARDEN! It is such a blessing that we are able to share such a special endeavor.
I know a lot of you have just come on board and may not have seen the project vision, so following is the vision for Funk Town Farm;
Funk Town Farm is a community garden behind 219 East 15th Street in Oakland. We are a group of novice and experienced gardeners who want to grow our own produce (and flowers) to use and sell on a sliding scale in the ReGeneration parking lot on Sunday mornings. We also want to raise chickens to have eggs to sell and use, as well as involve the community in "sponsoring a chicken" and composting. Ultimately we would like to provide our neighbors with the opportunity to have fresh organic fruit, veggies and eggs no matter what their socioeconomic status may be.
We feel that gardening as a community not only is a service to that community but to the gardeners as well. Gardening slows us down in an otherwise hectic city, reminding us what is real. We believe that there is no anxiety that digging in the dirt cant cure. We believe that human beings are meant to spend time outdoors. We believe in removing cement. We believe that getting dirty is good not bad. We believe that we can cut back our garbage sent to the landfill by composting AND use it to grow things at the same time. We believe that bugs are better than pesticides. We believe that the taste and smell of a tomato just off the vine can change hearts. We believe that we were created to dig side by side and share stories. We believe that is is true that "God made dirt and dirt wont hurt".
Here is a list of duties;
(Please choose one or two or even three)
An hour worth of work=1 basket of fresh veggies, fruit or flowers at the end of the week*
1.Watering (1/2 hour) Monday, Weds, Friday or Sunday
2.Weeding (1/2 hour) Monday, Thurs, Saturday
3.Chicken feeding/egg gathering and sorting (30minutes) Everyday needed. note: you can earn eggs with this chore
4.Fertilizing Plants (1XWeekly.. day flexible)
5.Pruning and "dead heading" (1XWeekly.. day flexible)
6.Planting (2hours2X per month)
7.Harvesting (1 hour 1Xweek)
8.Organising and bagging harvest for market and give away(2 hours per week can be split between 2 people)
9.Compost turning and watering (15minutes) Monday, Weds, Friday
10.Making sure tools, seeds etc are organized (15 min per week)
11.Resourcing (1 hour per week) This includes tracking down items on craigslist etc.. and organizing pick ups.
12.Letter writing for donations (1-2 hours per month)
*this does not include eggs (to get earn eggs please see Chicken Sponsor email, or choose feeding of chickens as duty)
Let me know what you think you may want to do! I am so excited!!!! Oh, and if you haven't seen the garden yet.. email me and I'll take you back!
-Daphne
PS. If ANYONE knows ANYONE that is a grant writer and wants to trade for organic produce let me know! We don't need, but really, really WANT a grant or two!!!
PSS..PLEASE FWD this email to anyone you know who may be interested in the project. I don't have everyone's email! :) Thanks!
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