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May09

A Living Library — Food Production & Food Security: Eight Free Community Hands-On Gardening Sessions

Food Production & Food Security: Eight Free Community Hands-On Gardening Sessions

Saturdays, May 15-August 28, 2021~ 2:00-5:30 PM

Register for Whole Course or Individual Sessions Classes in English and Spanish !

Sessions Will Meet At OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park In Lower Garden Between Denman MS & San Miguel EES On Oneida Off San Jose Avenue

Please Register In Advance:

info@alivinglibrary.org / questions: 212-242-1700

Beginning this Saturday, May 15, community members are invited to the OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park for a FREE Eight Session Organic Gardening Series on Food Production & Food Security. These Saturday Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and will run twice monthly, May 15 – August 28, 2:00 - 5:30 pm.

Participants who are enrolled in the full series will work with Organic Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits & Flowers, CA Natives, and gain hands-on experience in Companion & Seasonal Planting, Composting, Pruning, Integrated Pest Management, Indigenous Styles & Methodologies, Harvesting, Plus More. Additional details and fuller class descriptions can be found on Flyer.

To Register for whole program (HIGHLY recommended), or individual sessions, please contact:

info@alivinglibrary.org / questions: 212-242-1700

This Free Program is Funded by an Excelsior Community Collaborative Action Grant & is A Program of Life Frames, Inc.

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Let’s Join Together To Save Our Planet

This Earth Day, let’s pledge to protect diverse species and work towards creating a greener, sustainable, and organic Planet Earth. Read more to find out how even large cities and towns can contribute in conserving plant and animal populations.

Climate change spurred by human activities has directly, negatively impacted plants and wildlife across the world. To cope up with increasing human population, forests are being cut down to expand cities and towns, or to burn as firewood for cooking.

The list of endangered and threatened species is increasing at an alarming rate and only our collective effort can save them from extinction.

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Aug05

Bonnie Ora Sherk Presents Lecture On Funcshuional Art In Museum Of Arte Útil’s Escuela at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts

Bonnie Ora Sherk, long-time ecological artist, landscape architect, planner, educator, and Founder & Director of Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library, presented a lecture on Funcshuional Art as A Living Library at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on August 2 as part of Escuela d'Arte Util (School of Useful Art), part of Tania Bruguera’s Exhibition of the Museum d'Arte Util at YBCA. Her talk was live-streamed on the YBCA's website (see below). Bonnie Ora Sherk's work was also featured on a KQED radio broadcast and appears on the KQED website about the Exhibition and Arte Util.

Presentation Part 1 Presentation Part 2

Below are a few pictures from the presentation.

Bonnie Ora Sherk presents this week’s lecture on “usership” at Escuela de Arte Útil at YBCA.

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Sep27

Lovely Learning Of Diversity in OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park !

Attract and Disperse : Lessons in Diversity What better way to experience the diversity of life on our planet than to be taught in a garden? Each day spent in the garden immerses a student in a natural environment where plants and animals interact. Over time, they see thesis organisms change seasonally and develop throughout their lives. Through garden education, students witness these natural cycles firsthand.

Thank you, Mr. Bee, for helping to pollinate our zucchini!

This month, Pre-K students at San Miguel Early Education School began to learn about flowers as attractors for pollinators. They went on a "color scavenger hunt", matching colored flashcards to plants throughout the garden.

Over here, pollinators!

Perfect match!

Older students at San Miguel had a seed diversity lessons, dissecting and investigating a variety of seed vessels. We discussed how reproductive rate may vary between plants as a result of their differing seed dispersal methods.

Can you name the 8 different plants whose seeds are pictured here?

Working some ART into our S.T.E.M. lessons - we believe in the power of S.T.E.A.M. !

Speaking of Scarlet Runners - have you ever seen such beautiful beans as these?

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Prayer Flag Project Complete!

Teachers Sue Meyer and Cecilia Frisardi worked with several classes on an art and literacy project at San Miguel Early Education School this past summer. Students were asked to come up with dreams and goals for their communities and paint these onto a flag. Check out the display in the Redwood Circle at the OMI/Excelsior Branch of a living library today!

Sue's class inscribed their flag with such phrases as "Grow Food", "Save Water", and "Spread Love".