A Packetful of Promise: Seed Starting, Seed Libraries, and other Seediness. April Meet and Eat.

Come find out about Seeds: Where to get them, how to start them, when to plant them and more!

Following the potluck, we will have a workshop on seed blocking, and we will have seeds and some materials available for starting some of your own.

There will be a short presentation from Going to Seed about their Seed Sharing program that promotes local seed adaptability and resilience.

We will also be discussing where to get seeds for FREE, and some of the many seed libraries and resources throughout the bay area.

WHAT TO BRING: Seeds you would like to share.

Potluck items if you can! And an appetite for learning and sharing.

To subscribe to our email list, send an email to eastbaypermaculture+subscribe@googlegroups.com, you can also follow us on instagram, join our facebook group or connect through PLACE's meetup.com page!

WHAT: Bay Area Permaculture Guild March Meet+Eat

WHEN: Monday, April 8th, 2024 6-8:30 PM (always the second Monday evening)

WHERE: a PLACE for Sustainable Living, our local sustainable community center for education and activism, 1121 64th st oak-land

WHAT TO BRING: yourself, your friends, your skills/talents to share or grow and if you can potluck items to share!

in other news..

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall

Happy Birthday to Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most impactful conservationists and inspirational figures in the environmental movement.

We want to take this month to celebrate the spirit of the work that Jane Goodall and countless others have done to encourage environmental awareness, and the individual actions we can make to be better stewards of the Earth. This week we will be highlighting opportunities throughout the month from local organizations doing really cool things to make our world a better place at the local level. 

This is a small sample of events that happened to get on our radar, and we encourage you to look in your local neighborhood for opportunities to make a difference in your own backyard.

Make every day Earth Day!

April 5

Deep Networking on Zoom!

Come meet like-minded people working on creating a regenerative future at our next Regeneration Pollination event this Fri, April 5th from 10-11:30am Pacific. 
Meet people from other networks engaged in regeneration, transformation, systems thinking, and making a better world for all.

During this one-hour "drop-in" sessions, we'll organize random, one-on-one video chats so you can meet new people, discover new networks and projects, trade ideas, start relationships and generally strengthen the community making our regenerative future a reality. Afterward the first hour, stay on for the social hour and dive into topics that matter to you!
Register here: https://bit.ly/registerforRP
Can't make it? Check out the website to see the calendar of events https://www.regenerationpollination.earth/networking-event

April 6

East Bay Seed Spring Fling

ONLY 10 SPOTS LEFT!

East Bay Gardeners! Join us for the East Bay Spring Seed Fling, a community gathering to celebrate local seeds for local food. Join a collaborative seed saving project that is adapting several crops to the East Bay. Why Should You Attend? Growing and saving locally adapted seeds within a community can yield a more productive, flavorful garden with plants that become resistant to local environmental challenges like pests and weather challenges. 

April 6-7

Bring Back the Natives: Garden Tour - To celebrate their 20th anniversary(!), Bring Back the Natives is hosting two full weekends of workshops and tours about bay area native and pollinator plants and how to get more of them in your garden or community. April 6-7 will be online via both Zoom and YouTube. The May 4-5 schedule has a number of in-person tours of home and community gardens throughout the bay area. In total, over 60 native gardens and 30 green homes will be showcased.

Online Registration is free and easy.

April 9

Skill & Idea Share @THP South | Berkeley Public Library

Come join Transition Berkeley for their monthly skill share meeting! This month's theme is GARDENING - exploring and sharing all of the things we are excited about this season and swapping tricks and resources!

All are welcome! 

April 15

Permaculture Book Club - Online

In this first iteration of the Permaculture Guild Book Club, we will be exploring how to make our gatherings (small and large) more meaningful by questioning some of the conventions and structures that end up shaping our meetings. We will look at the wisdom of "it's always been done this way" and find ways to give greater depth and connection to our community by putting intention first.

This month we will be reading “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters” by Priya Parker. 

Amazon description: In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.

April 20

Community Climate Action Day in Oakland

Oakland is doing it big this year for Earth Day! In collaboration with HandsOn Bay Area, Community Climate Action Corps and The California Volunteers office have set up many different sites for a massive day of action! The last few years have brought out hundreds of volunteers, and there will be opportunities for all ability levels. 

After volunteering, there will be a celebration at Liberation Square in Eastmont with a solar powered DJ, food, and a skating rink! There are numerous locations to volunteer throughout Oakland. Register here

Berkeley Home Electrification Fair

Are you thinking about electrifying your home? Maybe you’ve looked into it but weren’t sure about costs, what appliances you’d need to install, or just how to get started. Look no further. Come to the Berkeley Home Electrification Fair.

You can talk with electrification professionals, residents, and nonprofit agencies all working to electrify homes across the Bay Area. 

The benefits of switching from gas to electric can be enormous – long-term savings, healthier indoor air, cutting your climate footprint. And with new government rebates and tax credits 2024 promises to be a great year to go electric!

We hope to see you at one of the many events going on this month, and if you would like us to promote an event you are planning or involved with, please let us know the details and we will do our best to share!