Oakland Roots Garden of Stories and Traditions

01/07/2015

Such A Happy New Year To Everyone!!! Bless Us All In A Joyfullness Of Being That Radiates From Within. Blessings of Optimal Health and Great Fortune To All. May We Recognize Every Perfect Treasure In Our Life. Bless Us All In Our Work And Love For The Harmonious Unity Of All Our Relations. May All Of Life Flourish In Diversity And Continue So. And May Our Hearts And Minds Be Healed Of Pain, Trauma and Harmful Thought Cycles, That We March Forth, AS The Healer, In Deep Connection And Solidarity. May We Share Deep Love In Every Moment...

Swept in the current of the Holy Dayz, forgot to post these!!! Here is the finished Goat House!!! Yay!
The Girls Were Stoked! We got their new house out there the day before the rains started and gave it a temp wall for the front, with a little doorway, and tarpped it up to stay dry. Ain't She A Bute!!

Have a Wonderful Day Friends and Fam!

(My phone is not tagging people, will share into below.. )

12/03/2014

Yay!!!! We Just Built a New Goat House!!!
Now to Paint It and Pimp It Out! Haha

05/24/2014

April 5 & 6th, 2014: The Magic of Compost & Mmmycology (Mushroom 101)

05/06/2014

03/30/2014

need something to occupy your mid-Sunday? We'll be on the land this afternoon, beautifying, prepping space for next weekends workshops!! So, stop on by! PS, the loquat tree is producing a second crop & they're deelicious. See you there!

02/21/2014

02/07/2014

hey folks! its a little bit rainy: if you're planning on heading down, please call/text 925 895 3643. The current plan for folks that specifically contacted me is to meet at 1pm. If I don't see anyone around, I may seek shelter till around then.

02/06/2014

Hey all!
This FRIDAY--
For those of you interested in becoming a member of goat care steward crew but haven't because you've had questions and have missed last weekends' work parties… we will be touring land and reviewing list of goat care tasks, during 12-2pm.
Stop on by, friends!

Also know interested parties that want to get involved? Send them our new email: OaklandRootsInfo @ gmail

01/22/2014

Oakland Roots WorkDays and Goat & Land Steward trainings THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY!

Hay All !!!

We're Having two WorkDays this week at Oakland Roots, for the goats and to prepare the land for up-coming classes and workshops, as well as showing new stewards (volunteers) the ropes for taking care of the goats & the little garden/compost. Also, if anyone needs help figuring out the google group, documents or calendar, we can help you with that then as well :)

Tasks we'll be working on for the upcoming gatherings:

-Organize the wood & seating areas
-Collect burnables
-Clear area around burn pit (I left a message for a fire marshal to find out what we need to do to have legal cooking fires at Oakland Roots)
-Clear straw, dog p**p, chicken bones, glass, plastic trash, etc
-Concrete rocks: dump or use??
-Empty and organize blue barrels-- for Mycology Workshop
-Clear table to make more usable, store tools
-Organize usable materials Nicely on the land
-Trash & dump run, & drop other materials where peeps will scavenge them (there are a few good spots in West O)
-Figure out how we want to compost (temp till garden design) Move & Expand Compost (against the wall/ two bin system...) Need barrels of Saw Dust or Dried leaf matter for cover & maybe use the wood mulch from the pile on the land??
-Training the Goat & Garden Stewards (both days) : Learn what you'll need to do on the land /with the goats, and help with computer stuff for the using the google group, documents or calendar if you have any questions.
-Collect $1-3 from folks to help buy a combo key lock at the hardware store/& pay for gas for the dump runs.

Anyone have a truck or truck access?? please contact me

The Work/Training Days will be this Friday, the 24th, Noon-4pm. and Saturday, the 25th, 11-3pm.

Thanks Everyone!! Stoked to see You!
Leah Santa Lucia

in Downtown Oakland:

Oakland Roots School of Urban Sustainability
923 Martin Luther King Jr. Way

11/10/2013

HayHay My Beautiful Friends! Our Transformation Is Now... And What A Sweet Beautiful Gift It Is!! ♥♥♥
I am Fortunate to work with such Amazing Beings forming a panel on Direct Action and The Food Justice Movement. (super blessed
With ~ Fashoka Inley, Effie Rawlings, & Rising Roots

Check It!

Come! Participate & Engage with a panel of direct action activists organizing in the movement to create an ecologically and socially just world through food and land. Hear stories and dialogue with organizers from diverse backgrounds and groups about tactics and strategies that have been successful and what has been learned from attempts that have been suppressed. Learn about the long term effects these movements have incited.

!!!!TODAY!!!!
Info: Green Festivals at the Concourse Exhibition Ctr.
!!!! FIND US AT THE HUB !!!!
Discussion Time 3p-4:30p

♥♥♥ Love Only ♥♥♥
Leah Santa Lucia

10/23/2013

This weekend Thursday evening through Saturday (Oct 24th-26th) is Mark Lakeman's workshop in the San Francisco Bay Area on Redesigning the Commons, Placemaking, & Village Building.

http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Redesigning_the_Commons_with_Mark_Lakeman.html

This is some of the most phenomenal work happening to transform our cities into common spaces with truly sustainable infrastructure through facilitating community projects and gathering neighbors together to design the places where they live.

Mark was the most inspiring speaker at the 2012 N. Cal Permaculture Convergence and has been designing and creating neighborhood places and community commons for over a decade. Check out the work of City Repair with their intersection paintings and public installations and get ready for Oakland's place making block party November 9th: http://aplaceforsustainableliving.org/ai1ec_event/festival-commons-neighborhood-placemaking-block-party/?instance_id

I highly recommend going to the Mark Lakeman place making workshop this weekend if you can swing it-read more and register here: http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Redesigning_the_Commons_with_Mark_Lakeman.html

For Upcoming Courses, Workshops, & Events in Permaculture, Ecovillage Design, Sustainable Living Skills, & More Click Here.

10/16/2013

British children are losing contact with nature at a "dramatic" rate and their health and education are suffering, says a National Trust report.