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New Hope Fellowship has just awarded SOL a Neighborhood Improvement/ Community Engagement Grant for a Summer Internship Outreach Campaign and Street Beautification Project. (We will be installing a mural in 4 sections of the garden fence along International Blvd.) Please contact us if you are interested in assisting with this project. We are also in need of art supplies. Stay tuned into the website to track our progress.
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 be a candle making demonstration upon filtration. Hope to see you there!
Join us for an afternoon luncheon and internship showcase hosted by SOL Summer Interns; who will be preparing food (some of which they grew themselves in the SOL garden) for the luncheon, giving tours of the garden and presenting a slide show chronicling their summer working at SOL.
Our next fabulous event at sol will take place on Saturday June 13th. See you there!
Please join us this coming Sunday, May 10, for our monthly work party, In celebration of Mothers, we will tend to the soil. Join Projects for this Sunday include: preparing beds; planting corn, pumpkins and skill-share @ 2pm
At the Berkeley Farmers’ Markets we are celebrating being the first farmers’ market in the nation to eliminate plastic bags and packaging! Raffle to win Zero Waste Kits, Berkeley Farmers’ Market Gift Certificates, and Ecology Center memberships. Get a free raffle ticket for each kind of container/bag you bring to move us closer to Zero Waste. (Drawing at 2:30pm. You don’t have to be present to win.) Bag Making Workshop (11am-2pm) – Free workshop on making your own bags. Make simple cloth produce bags using t-shirts, fabric scraps, and sustainable fabrics. All are welcome to come get the guidance needed to make your own. Pattern and instruction booklets available to bring home and share with your family and friends. Recycling Swish (Basketball Toss) Eco-Carnival Game from the Sustainable Living Road Show (10am-3pm). Also come for the Berkeley Earth Day event next to us in Civic Center Park. Time: 10am – 3pm. please join us this sunday, april 12, for 2nd sunday! 12-4pm. At -preparing garden beds we look forward to seeing you. love …sol… In case you missed our fabulous spring bbq, this sunday, *come help plant our summer garden we need your help, and your creativity! check out our website to learn more about us… hope to see you here! You are cordially invited to an afternoon and evening Saturday, April 29th * 3:00 – 5:00 …Garden activities: plant sale, mural painting, come with your family-it’ll be fun for all ages! organic vegetarian fare for grilling provided by sol jumpstart your garden and help support sol hope to see you there! love, sol andrea come join us this Sunday for another fabulous work day! sunday, april 9th projects to include… *making potato towers! come work and play in our urban oasis… hope to see you there! love, andrea |
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