Planting Day Press Coverage
 

Bay Area Living

Distributed by Alameda Times Star, Argus, Daily Review, Oakland Tribune and the Tri-Valley Herald

April 14, 2005

Green day

Urban and rural worlds collide Saturday when local "new Americans" — the new, politically correct word for new citizens, recent immigrants and refugees — meet farmers from the Salinas area for "Green Planting Day" at Holy Names University in Oakland.

A community event, Green Planting Day will feature the planting of the inaugural organic community education garden. A Mayan group will appear to perform a traditional ceremony.

The garden is intended to bring together new American urban food entrepreneurs and rural organic farmers to develop joint-marketing ventures that will extend into low-income communities. The event is sponsored by the Green Markets-Green Banana Food Incubator Project, a joint venture of AnewAmerica and Land-Based Training Association (aka ALBA, based in Salinas), funded by grants from the Columbia Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The festivities take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Holy Names University, 3500 Mountain Blvd. For more information, visit www.anewamerica.org or call (510) 540-7785, ext. 302.

— Candace Murphy

    AnewAmerica Community Corporation
1918 University Ave., Suite 3A, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone (510) 540-7785     Fax (510) 540-7786
Email:  info@anewamerica.org
 

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