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August 2nd SUNDAY Garden Work Party!

[ August 8, 2010; 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Join us from 12pm to 4pm and
enjoy a day in the garden. Activities for the day will include
harvesting delicious fruits and veggies for a locally- sourced,
organic meal, pruning, chicken-care, seed starting, weeding, and
trestling. We will share meal together and trade
skills, starts, and stories.

Looking forward to seeing you then.

Love,
the solmates
Amanda
Cass
Miriam
Morgan
Olivia
Patrick
Salima
Yvonne

January 2010 2nd Sunday

[ January 10, 2010; 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Interested in learning more about SOL and helping support our work?
Come put your hands in the earth and help us get our garden ready for
a bountiful 2010. We will share stories (we have some good stories,
ideas, and exciting plans) and a delicious family-style, vegan, local
meal.

Looking forward to seeing you then!

12-4
Lunch @ 3pm
sol – 1236 [...]

December 2009 2nd Sunday

[ December 13, 2009; 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Join us for our monthly work party and local, seasonal vegan lunch!

Projects for this Sunday include:  sheet mulching, turning compost, chicken coop maintenance and weeding.

Skill-Share topic: Bay Friendly Gardening: Landscaping with Native & Drought Tolerant Plants with Shereen & Beatrice

12-4  2pm
Lunch @ 2pm
skill-share @ 2:30pm
sol – 1236 23rd ave at international blvd.

November 2009 2nd Sunday

[ November 8, 2009; 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Come help us plant our winter garden and mulch. As usual, a vegan lunch will be served around 2pm with a skill share to follow at 2:30pm.

Skill Share: “Mind your own Bees’ Wax” with Beatrice

Learn how to filter your own freshly harvested wax for future use in candle making, cosmetics, batik, etc. There will also [...]

May 2009 2nd Sunday

[ May 10, 2009; 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Please join us this coming Sunday, May 10, for our monthly work party,
from 12-4.

In celebration of Mothers, we will tend to the soil.  Join
us at 2pm for a skill-share on compost and worm bins.  We are
repeating this topic as it is so important and also not many of you
were able to make our previous skill [...]

April 2009 2nd Sunday – soil preparation

please join us this sunday, april 12, for 2nd sunday! 12-4pm. At
2pm, our skill share will be on soil preparation for planting. We
will discuss how to take your backyard soil and get it ready to plant
your spring and summer garden. we will be working on the following
projects throughout the day:
-preparing [...]

work day pictures

Thanks to BobPixel for these photos from a visit to a Sol work day! Check out his Sustainability Blog.

a sumptuous summer at sol

Greetings from sol!
we know it’s been awhile since you’ve heard from us, and we thought it was
time for an update! We’ve been behind the scenes making things happen,
and we’re happy to report our exciting new developements to you, the
wonderful community that has seen us this far.
An index for your reading pleasure…
I A New [...]