6/27: Grand Opening of Urban Garden Center in Berkeley

Spiral Gardens Community Food Security Project
Invites you to come celebrate the Grand Opening of the

Urban Garden Center

Sunday June 27th
2:00 - 6:00 pm

This free community event is on the corner of
Sacramento and Oregon Streets in Berkeley.

Activities will include: local musical offerings such as hip
hop/dancehall, folk and rap from youth and other artists; words from
George Galvis, and other community activists and leaders; tours of the
garden center; a produce stand; and creative ways to get involved with
Spiral Gardens and other community food security projects.

Spiral Gardens, formerly known as the BOSS Urban Gardening Institute
(BUGI), is a nonprofit organization promoting healthy communities by
encouraging the productive use of city soil and improving access to
fresh local produce. The new Urban Garden Center is releasing the life
giving potential of formerly vacant public land spanning two city
blocks. The Center consists of the following four elements:

* A Collective Food Production Garden -- 1/2 of harvest goes to the
homeless and elderly, remaining 1/2 divided among the volunteers who
grow it

* An Organic Urban Nursery specializing in plants for food, medicine,
and ecological restoration. All proceeds go to support the project.

* A Low-Cost Organic Produce Stand featuring fresh food from regional
farmers, and

* Future Intensive Trainings and a regular schedule of Free Public
Classes, in this new outdoor education site. These classes will be a way
for people to share knowledge about self-sufficiency through gardening,
skills for good eating habits, and tools to build a vibrant community.

Come see the Urban Garden Center and join Spiral Gardens in an afternoon
of celebration, food, art and community building. Help make the vision
of healthy communities and good food a reality for all.

For more information, call Spiral Gardens at 510-843-1307 or reply to
this email.

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