Welcome back potluck will be taking over the garden on Sunday, August 23rd, 11:00-2:00! Veterans, newbies, students and community members are all equally welcomed! Let your SOGAsummer interns show you what we have accomplished in the garden over the past few months! **Light snacks will be provided but feel free to bring food!**
Drip Irrigation in the Student Organic Garden On Tuesday July 14, the SOGA summer interns finished installing drip irrigation lines in the southern beds to help make watering in SOGA more efficient. Drip irrigation is a great water-saving trick during times of drought, and on top of that it also saves YOU a ton of […]
SOGA now has Worm Bins! Generously donated by Juliana Wu Worms are great at recycling food scraps and other organic material into a valuable soil amendment called vermicompost, or worm compost. Worms eat food scraps, which become compost as they pass through the worm’s body. Compost exits the worm through its’ tail end and then can […]
Want to go organic and get rid of those conventional chemical pesticides? Make your own natural pesticide from garlic and habanero! It’s easy, effective and healthy for you and your plants!
If you missed our Summer Solstice and Father’s Day potluck yesterday, here is a recap! Our Harvest of the day: – Artichoke flowers – Sunflowers – Figs -Broccoli -Cauliflower -Kale and Apples! Our Potluck Treats: Fruit Salad with apricots, blackberry pie, apple cinnamon challah bread (w/apples from the garden), two frittatas (w/broccoli from the garden), minty […]
Bay Area Bites, KQED new article on the Student Organic Garden http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/06/12/uc-berkeleys-student-run-garden-offers-urban-oasis-to-students-and-community/
Come join us for “Father’s Day in the Garden” on June 21st! We will be hosting family activities such as pot painting, an organic garlic pesticide workshop and bouquet-making from 11-2pm! There will also be snacks to munch on! Have your Father’s Day brunch and then come enjoy the sun!
Meet our summer interns funded by The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF)! Holly Whitaker, Summer Operations Intern whitakerhollys@gmail.com Holly is entering her senior year at Cal with a double major in Geography and CRS, with a concentration in nutritional and medicinal ethnoecology. Her interest in sustainable agriculture first peaked during a semester spent traveling and volunteering […]