63rd Street Site #7

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 1

Kristen and Matt

Working on a community garden and school garden. Painting new racks.

Volunteer Capacity: 25

Address: On 63rd street (Between Ellis Street and California Street)

Aquatic Park Egret Site #6

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 1

Aquatic Park Egret

The project would consist of raking and shoveling wood chips into buckets so they can be carried and placed around the native shoreline plantings to control weeds and enhance the plants' growth.

Volunteer Capacity: 20

Address: 599 Potter Street, Berkeley, CA

Berkeley Arts Magnet Site #2

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 1

Berkeley Arts Magnet

Gardening projects. Yard/garden maintenance including loosening compacted soil around trees, weeding, putting compost in garden areas

Volunteer Capacity: 20

Address: 2015 Virginia Street between Shattuck and Milvia.

Berkeley Path Wanderers

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 2

Clearing invasive weeds--mainly ivy--from overgrown hillsides in Berkeley Rose Garden

Volunteer Capacity: 30

Address: Berkeley Rose Garden on Euclid Ave

CalJulia

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 2

CalJulia Neighbors will join Cal students in our annual BP Spring Work Day. We’ll clean up trash and clean out storm drains in the California Julia Street cross (4 blocks), prune, weed and mulch the sidewalk strips. We may also do some planting in the strips.

Volunteer Capacity: 30

Address: 1508 Julia Street (at Sacramento Street) south Berkeley

Chaparral House

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 2

We will be removing plants from around the building for fire safety, as well as some general weeding and upkeep of landscape gardens to beautify the gardens for the residents, family and friends of Chaparral House. We will also spend some time working in the organic vegetable garden.

Volunteer Capacity: 15

Address: 1309 Allston Way >> Berkeley CA 94702

City of Berkeley

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 2

Sacramento Street – 68 tree wells were planted this past fall – they need to be weeded, any dead plants need to be replaced, and cordon off each tree well so plants are not crushed; plant remaining 68 tree wells from Tyler to Alcatraz, design and plant the planter attached to Alba’s Glass, clean up and cut back of Spiral Gardens, work to be done at Sacramento Market – I am going to speak with Yassir about some ideas we have – produce display area ifo the store, reorganize interior of store and bring in products that serve all of the local community, and potential interior painting as it relates to restructure of the store, potential exterior painting (contingent on weather)

Volunteer Capacity: 100

Address: Sacramento Street

City of Berkeley

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 3

Sweet Adeline planter and tree wells – planter ifo Sweet Adeline needs to be planted with plants, tree well grates need to be popped up, debris and litter removed, weed cloth laid, and grates realigned within the tree wells along Adeline and Alcatraz, Alcatraz tree wells will be planted with plants and colorful DG

Volunteer Capacity: 100

Address: Adeline Street and Alcatraz Avenue

City of Berkeley - Bay Trail Site #1

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 1

City of Berkeley

Light weeding, litter pickup, raking, sweeping.

Volunteer Capacity: 65

Address: Meet at Seabreeze Restaurant (Intersection of University Avenue and Frontage Road)

City of Berkeley Mental Health Division

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 3

Painting: partial exterior of building, window + window frames, hand rail

Volunteer Capacity: 10

Address: 2640 MLK Jr. Way

City of Berkeley Storm Drains

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 2

Installing stainless steel medallions at catch basins and inlets with the message “No Dumping, Drains to Bay” along Strawberry Creek (which generally runs mid-block between Allston and Addison), west down Addison where there is a large storm drain, and to other storm drain routes such as on Lincoln and Sacramento.

Volunteer Capacity: 15

Address: Meet at 1947 Center Street, but volunteers will head to different places such as Strawberry Creek, Sacaremento Street, and Lincoln Street. Lunch will take place at the city's corporation yard around 1

Claremont Canyon Conservancy

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 3

We will be removing an invasive plant called French Broom from the upper portion of Claremont Canyon.

Volunteer Capacity: 10

Address: Dwight Way and Warring Street

Friends of Five Creeks Site #5

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 1

Friends of Five Creeks

Help Friends of Five Creeks remove invasives that increase fire danger and destroy biodiversity in beautiful Tilden Regional Park. Take a short nature walk and visit the Environmental Education Center and Little Farm on the way to the project site.

Volunteer Capacity: 30

Address: Tilden Nature Area Stop

Friends of Kenney Cottage Community Garden

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 3

We are cleaning up weeds, turning over the soil, and preparing for our biggest planting ever. Volunteers can expect to be helping with planting seeds on our grow benches, turning over the compost, spreading compost into beds. We currently have 8 avocado trees growing and will need to transplant those into larger containers. - GARDEN WORK

Volunteer Capacity: 10

Address: 1635 Fifth St Berkeley, CA 94710 next door to General Hydroponics

Halcyon Commons

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 3

Halcyon Commons, a small park in South Berkeley, was designed and created by neighborhood volunteers under the leadership of Halcyon Neighborhood Association where there was once a 28-space parking lot. The help of Berkeley Project volunteers makes a huge difference in our care of the park. In our March work party, we'll weed in the park and at nearby landscaped features, then mulch to control future weeds, and if the weather cooperates we'll also send crews out to remove graffiti in the wider neighborhood.

Volunteer Capacity: 28

Address: Halcyon Commons park (in the middle of Halcyon Court, a block-long street between Prince & Webster Streets one block west of Telegraph, back behind Whole Foods Market at Ashby/Telegraph)

Indian Rock Park

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 3

Hand weeding, some ivy removal, raking and possibly mulching.

Volunteer Capacity: 30

Address: 950 Indian Rock Avenue at Shattuck Avenue - Northeast Berkeley

John Hinkel Park

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 2

Ivy removal.

Volunteer Capacity: 30

Address: 41 Somerset Avenue between Southampton Avenue and San Diego Road - Northeast Berkeley

Karl Linn Community Garden

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 2

They will be weeding and possibly painting the tool shed.

Volunteer Capacity: 10

Address: Hopkins St & Peralta Ave Berkeley, California 94702

Nature Center

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 2

Continue work on native plant garden. Finding plants that were planted last year . Pulling out grasses.

Volunteer Capacity: 10

Address: 160 University Ave. Berkeley Ca 94710

Schoolhouse Creeks Common Site #4

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 1

Schoolhouse Creeks Common

Schoolhouse Creek Common is a community-run native garden/orchard/play area in West Berkeley. We will be pruning, weeding and mulching.

Volunteer Capacity: 30

Address: Schoolhouse Creek Common (Curtis Street and Virginia Street)

Site #7

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 3

Berkeley Project

Reserve Group

Volunteer Capacity: 50

Address: Sproul Plaza

Thousand Oaks Site #3

Event: Berkeley Project Month 2013 Day 1

Thousand Oaks

Organize PTA storage area: clean out space, sort, discard trash & organize materials into clear storage bins, build/install shelves, replace storage bins on shelves.

Volunteer Capacity: 10

Address: T.O. Elementary School, 840 Colusa Ave., Berkeley