10/18: Community Garden Speaker Series: Monday, 6pm, Potluck and Pizza

76 Race Street,San Jose CA 95126

20 December, 2021

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CNGF Community Garden Speaker Series: Monday Potluck CNGF Volunteers and friends, Please join us Monday evening for our October Community Garden Speaker Event. 6pm-8pm in our ELSEE Garden @ 76 Race St, San Jose, CA 95126. Our guest speaker for 10/18, will be Rose Jáquez and her family. Rose is the Program Supervisor at Cureton Family Resource Center, located at Cureton Elementary School in the Alum Rock School District. CNGF recently designed and built (with community volunteer help) a beautiful ELSEE garden at Cureton over this summer. Rose will be talking about the program at Cureton and their plans for the future at the Alum Rock Union School District. Check out the attached photos of Cureton's new ELSEE preK garden and photos of past successful Monday night potluck and pizza guest events. Pictures show our volunteers spreading donated mulch, and a California native grassland meadow for nature immersion, designed for children 3-5 years old. CNGF created a curriculum called "Playing with Intent: Nature Immersion+Food, in the certified outdoor classroom. Our guest, Rose, helped us win this opportunity. We are hoping to be able to fire up our Italian wood-fired pizza oven and you are welcome to join in our potluck. Bringing a dish is not required. Come join the fun and help us extend a warm welcome Rose and her family to the ELSEE garden on Monday @ 76 Race Street (6-8pm). Hope to see you there, Mary, for Alrie Middlebrook Note: To help us keep this volunteer potluck event a fun event for all CNGF volunteers, please do what you can to make it sustainable: - To help us have a general idea of headcount, please RSVP when you can, (but do feel free to be spontaneous, if you can't RSVP). To make it easier to respond, consider joining our Meetup group https://www.meetup.com/cngf-volunteers/ - When possible, bring your own plates, utensils and cup, to help cut down on dishwashing water use and to help maximize conservation of resources. We will have plates available, if needed. ------------------------------ We are the Center for Urban Sustainability (CUS), the hub for a network of 25 EAT•GROW•LEARN centers throughout Santa Clara County. We have partnered with San Jose Evergreen Community College District Workforce Institute (SJECCD-WI) to create the CUS Center. We are supported by members of our local community who want to solve the climate crisis at home first. We have been developing our skill sets to transform cities for 45 years. Our focus is on education and job creation programs, growing highly nutritious food in small spaces in cities, the rewilding of cities for human health and well being and bringing world scientists together to introduce better methods to meet human life cycle needs in cities, close to where 50% of humans now live. We support land justice, food security, food sovereignty, social justice and new fossil fuel free jobs in our local community. Check out cngf.org to learn more about our programs CNGF is a nonprofit that wants to help educate the public, especially school children, about native gardens. We are more than a community garden. We are an econeighborhood. Come out & support our teaching gardens and urban farm. Help us grow these gardens and others by joining our eco-neighborhood. We are a movement led by grandmothers and mothers. We are a spark plug for change in San Jose downtown development.