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Sun, Apr 14
|Bay Point
Rio Vista: Open School Gardens & Food Forest Planting Day
Join us as a volunteer to plant citrus, pomegranate, and fig trees at the Rio Vista Food Forest! Volunteers also being sought as part of Open School Garden weekend in the Garden Classroom.
Time & Location:
Apr 14, 2024, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Bay Point, 611 Pacifica Ave, Bay Point, CA 94565, USA
About the event:
UPDATE (4/12/2024): Due to rain on Saturday, this event has been updated to a new date and time! The original date and time was Sat. 4/13 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. It is now one day later on Sun. 4/14 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
About Open School Gardens: Rio Vista Elementary is home to a garden classroom, which hosts daytime Garden Class taught by Growing Healthy Kids Garden Educator Kristina Hindes. The site featured beautiful, purple, triangular beds, and clever irrigation that makes plants bloom for students to study! Students often call after Ms. Hindes as "Garden Teacher!" as they remember, with excitement, the lessons about seeds, plants, food sources, and natural science they learned in the garden classroom.
About the Food Forest Project: The Rio Vista Food Forest is an educational site Growing Healthy Kids is developing to create a food forager's oasis in our schools!…