Events - Past
#DefundClimateChaos Week of Arts Action 4/2022 - Giant street art posters are displayed on a neighbor's fence along Ashby Avenue, just east of the garden. Artists include César Maxit, Jackie Fawn, Jan Martijn Burger, Jetsonorama, Allen Myers, and Cy Wagoner. Thousands of posters were printed and displayed, thanks to the effort of many organizers including David Solnit.
Berkeley Project Day, 4/16/2022- Cal Students join garden members and helped mount #DefundClimateChaos posters, cleared the front area of the garden, weeded, and hauled wood chips for garden paths.
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Media about Ashby Community Garden Campaign in 2021
KPIX Channel 5 News- Berkeley Neighbors Fighting To Save Their Beloved Community Garden, 11/9/2021 Berkeleyside- Berkeley neighbors fight to save their community garden- News Article, 11/8/2021 KPFA Radio Interview, Full Circle with Joy Moore- Growing Food in Communities, 10/1/2021 Daily Californian, Ashby Community Garden land to go up for sale, members raise funds, News Article |
Mending Matters Workshop at the Garden
8/7/2021 In our first on-site partnership with BioFuel Oasis, a very cool Japanese mending workshop was held at the garden on September 25, with 11 people attending. The instructor, Judith, taught techniques of visible mending and patching, known as the Art of Boro, to repair worn clothing and make it ever more personal. |
View our plant list at WBG Store and Herbal Products on drop-down menu.
Please choose your items for purchase and email webeegardener@gmail.com to arrange a time to pick up your plants.
Please choose your items for purchase and email webeegardener@gmail.com to arrange a time to pick up your plants.
VEGAN FOOD SWAP
Sunday February 23, 2020
For more information check out the ecology center's page:
https://ecologycenter.org/events/vegan-food-swap-2/
Sunday February 23, 2020
For more information check out the ecology center's page:
https://ecologycenter.org/events/vegan-food-swap-2/
FIRST GARDEN WORK PARTY OF THE NEW DECADE
Sunday January 26th, 2020
Featuring fresh tamales brought to you by the black beans and heirloom corn grown at the Garden!
Sunday January 26th, 2020
Featuring fresh tamales brought to you by the black beans and heirloom corn grown at the Garden!
Free Community Soil Lead Testing Workshop
Are you growing food in your yard, an urban farm or community garden, but don’t know if your soil has been tested for lead (Pb)? Do you want to test your soil before starting a garden?
Are you growing food in your yard, an urban farm or community garden, but don’t know if your soil has been tested for lead (Pb)? Do you want to test your soil before starting a garden?
- - Learn about what makes urban soils healthy, about when and why lead in garden soil is dangerous, and how to grow healthy food and keep yourself safe.
- - Sample your own soil after learning how to do it.
- - Return the samples to us for FREE testing for lead (Pb)!
- - Get soil results and recommendations for gardening safely.
The June 9 workshop has been cancelled due to extreme heat. We will reschedule in mid or late July so stay tuned or contact us for the new date.
Soil testing is limited to 30 sites in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Walk-ins are welcome and we will test your soil if possible. Please plan to attend two workshops and take soil samples from your garden..
Workshop website: https://east-bay-soil-lead-testing.weebly.com/
Workshop hosted by Nora and Bonnie, Ashby Garden and Sarick Matzen, UC Berkeley Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Program.
Medicine Making Workshop
Saturday, June 22, 12-3pm- Taught by Lisa Sanderson Fox and Melanie Molina
Learn all about the abundant medicinal herbs in Ashby Community Garden and how to harvest and use them from longtime herbal practitioner, Lisa Sanderson Fox. Learn different herbal preparation methods, such as tinctures, infusions and salves from herbalist Melanie Molina.
$10-20 donation suggested for materials, but no one turned away for lack of funds.
For info contact Melanie- guacamelly@gmail.com
Learn all about the abundant medicinal herbs in Ashby Community Garden and how to harvest and use them from longtime herbal practitioner, Lisa Sanderson Fox. Learn different herbal preparation methods, such as tinctures, infusions and salves from herbalist Melanie Molina.
$10-20 donation suggested for materials, but no one turned away for lack of funds.
For info contact Melanie- guacamelly@gmail.com
Events - Ongoing
We have work/play parties the last Sunday of every month, 12 - 3 pm where we maintain the paths and grounds together, do special projects, such as composting, sign painting, seed sorting, planting and share delicious potlucks made from fresh garden produce.
Other ongoing events include:
Surplus Sundays during harvest months, when we welcome guests to pick surplus produce.
A biannual vegan food swap of home-made food, soaps & other plant-based products.
Pollinator garden tours where you can discover the many garden pollinators in season.
Past Events:
Other ongoing events include:
Surplus Sundays during harvest months, when we welcome guests to pick surplus produce.
A biannual vegan food swap of home-made food, soaps & other plant-based products.
Pollinator garden tours where you can discover the many garden pollinators in season.
Past Events:
- Composting 101- Lori Caldwell from StopWaste taught techniques of making great compost
- Medicine Garden Tour- Herb walk with Lisa Sanderson, tincture making with Melanie Molina
- NorCal Resilience Network workshop on water-saving garden features
- Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness gatherings to build community
- Native Bee Presentation from UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab, learn to support our native bees
- Monarch Butterfly trainings, providing milkweed & training in raising monarchs from caterpillars
- Community Gathering to share ideas and visions about the future of urban gardens and green open spaces in Berkeley
- Soil Workshops Series taught by Rob Benneton from UC Cooperative Extension on how to build healthier soil and test for toxins in the soil
- Natural Dying Workshops taught by Rachel Haight, using plants to make beautiful fabric dyes
- Berkeley Project Days - Student groups from UC Berkeley volunteer and help us with amazing projects and transform the garden.
- Seed Saving with Seniors, we save our seeds each year to replant share them with the community.
- Bees as Muse, an Isadora Duncan style dance performance in the garden, celebrating bees
- Albany Green Fest, we participated in this Fest with sales of pollinator friendly plants
- Soil not Oil Presentation, we were invited to present at this International Conference
- World Renowned Muralist Louis Masai visited to demonstrate his unique graffiti bees
- Permaculture Blitz, we called for volunteers to blitz us a new greenhouse in one day!!
