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May Chapter Meeting - Presentation and Tour

WHEN:
Saturday, May 11, 2013
WHAT:

Subject: "Orchard Understory: Useful Plants for Under and Around your Fruit Trees", with Anders Vistrand and John Valenzuela

WHERE:

Room H108, Horticulture Dept.
Merritt College
12500 Campus Dr.
Oakland, CA 94619

TIME: 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM AGENDA:

  • Tour of the Merritt Horticulture Permaculture Food Forest Hillside
  • Nursery onsite will also offer many useful plants for sale.
    If you can, bring finger food and plants to share (food plants only please).
  • This meeting is free, and newcomers always welcome!

Directions to Merritt College, Horticulture Building:

From San Francisco/Peninsula:

Take 101/Interstate 80 across the Bay Bridge. Take the Interstate 580 E exit toward California 24/Hayward/Stockton. Take Exit 24 for 35th Ave. turning Left on 35th Ave. Continue onto Redwood Road. Take a slight right onto Campus Drive. Continue about .6 miles to the campus, turning left and bearing left to tennis courts, then left up the hill to the Horticulture Building. Park nearby. No parking permit should be needed.

From Marin & North:

Take 101 to I-580 East across the Richmond Bridge. Merge onto I-580 E/I-80 W. Take exit 8B on the left toward Downtown Oakland/Hayward/Stockton. Merge onto I-580 E. Take Exit 24 for 35th Ave. turning Left on 35th Ave. Continue onto Redwood Road. Take a slight right onto Campus Drive. Continue about .6 miles to the campus, turning left and bearing left to tennis courts, then left up the hill to the Horticulture Building. Park nearby. No parking permit should be needed.

From Concord/Walnut Creek:

Take I-680 South to exit 46 for California 24 toward Lafayette/Oakland. Take exit 5A toward Hayward/California 13 S just past the tunnel, merging onto 13 S. Take the Redwood Road exit toward Carson Street. Turn left onto Redwood Rd. Take a slight right onto Campus Drive. Continue about .6 miles to the campus, turning left and bearing left to tennis courts, then left up the hill to the Horticulture Building. Park nearby. No parking permit should be needed.

From the South Bay:

Take the San Mateo Bridge/Dumbarton Bridge/17 to I-880 North toward Oakland. Take exit 31A to merge onto I-238 S toward Castro Valley/Stockton/I-580. Take exit 14 to merge onto I-580 W toward Oakland. Keep right to continue on CA-13 N/Warren Fwy, follow signs for California 13/Berkeley. Take exit 1 for Carson Street toward Redwood Road. Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Chabot Space and Science Center/Merritt College and merge onto Mountain Blvd. Turn right onto Redwood Rd. Take a slight right onto Campus Drive. Continue about .6 miles to the campus, turning left and bearing left to tennis courts, then left up the hill to the Horticulture Building. Park nearby. No parking permit should be needed.

Merritt Hort Bldg
You do not need to be a CRFG member to attend although of course we hope you'll join.

FOR MORE INFO: Call 415-246-8834
or e-mail John Valenzuela


Questions or comments? Send email to the Golden Gate Chapter.


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