Vallejo Community is Invited to Celebrate the Garden Their Support Made Possible

Vallejo People’s Garden invites you to join them for a morning of live music, free organic breakfast and fun educational workshops to celebrate the grand opening of the community garden. The garden will feature edible fruits and vegetables to be used by local low-income residents and homeless and needy families as food. Its purpose is to promote health, wellness and connections in the Vallejo community, grow fresh fruits and vegetables for those who are most in need and create educational opportunities for children and adults.

Where:
Vallejo People’s Garden, 1055 Azuar Drive, Vallejo, CA 94592 (intersection of East Poplar Avenue and Oscar Street)

When:
April 30th 2011 from 9 am to 1pm

Free workshops include:

· Basic beekeeping

· Garden layout

· Composting 101

· Gardening in Vallejo

· California Natives

· Children’s Activities

This garden was made possible by a $25,000 grant awarded by Nature’s Path Organic Foods and Organic Gardening magazine’s Gardens For Good program. Out of the 267 outstanding entries from nonprofit organizations across the nation, Vallejo People’s Garden (and fellow winner Damayan Garden in Tallahassee, FL) rose to the top. The winners were selected based on community support in addition to the need for infrastructure and the feasibility of the plan put forward to sustain the garden long term. As a Gardens for Good grant recipient, the Vallejo People’s Garden also earned an added donation of $50,000 in Nature’s Path products to help fill the pantries of the local food bank.