[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: California Native Garden Foundation Newsletter

[Andrea Dorey]

These advocates are fighting to keep a sustainable organic gardening  
space open for all of us to use and enjoy.
This seems to me to be a worthwhile project for us Greens to support  
as the environmentalists that we purport to be.
What do you think?  Can you attend this hearing?
Andrea

Begin forwarded message:

>
>  A Letter from Alrie Middlebrook
> A Hearing and a Master Plan
>
> Dear Friends and Supporters,
>
> The city wants to pave paradise and put up a parking lot at 76 Race  
> Street, home of Middlebrook Gardens Nursery and headquarters of  
> CNGF. The first hearing ended in favor of the city, but we have not  
> given up!
>
> The second land-use appeal hearing date before the San Jose  
> Planning Commission has been set! Please mark your calendars and  
> join us to show your support.
>
> January 13, 2010 at 6:30 pm
> San Jose City Hall Council Chambers
> 200 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose
> (See map link and parking suggestions at the end of this letter.)
>
> If you wrote a letter of support or attended our last hearing, can  
> we count on you again? And if you did not, will you do it now?
>
> Please direct emails to the following individuals:
>
> Mike Enderby - Senior Planner, Dept. of Planning, Building & Code  
> Enforcement - mike.enderby at sanjoseca.gov
> CC to: Joseph Horwedel, Planning Director, City of San Jose -  
> joseph.horwedel at sanjoseca.gov
> CC to: Laurel Prevetti, Deputy Director of Planning Service, City  
> of San Jose -
> laurel.prevetti at sanjoseca.gov
>
> If you choose to mail a letter, please send to:
>
> City of San Jose Department of Planning, Building & Code Enforcement
> Attn: Mike Enderby
> 200 East Santa Clara Street, 3rd Floor Tower
> San Jose, CA 95113-1905
>
> If you can attend this meeting and show your physical support, it  
> will make a HUGE difference. Can we count on you to help us fill  
> the room?
>
> Since our first hearing in October, this is what we have been  
> working to accomplish:
>
> The California Native Garden Foundation is providing outdoor  
> classroom space for St. Leo The Great School next door. Beginning  
> in February, CNGF and Middlebrook Gardens will host classes for at  
> least four classroom teachers. We'll be working on understanding  
> and observing fungi culture, building worm bins, composting and  
> growing winter veggies. We have CNGF volunteers pledging their time  
> to assist the classroom teachers with their lessons in our outdoor  
> and indoor classrooms.
>
> The busy Middlebrook Gardens staff is getting things ready!
> We are building a gate for the students easy access adjacent to  
> their school.
> We are taking down our chain link fence and creating a new  
> attractive entry from Race Street.
> We're cleaning out and sprucing up our indoor classroom space.  
> Volunteers are welcome to lend a hand!
> We will be installing a greywater system that will also function as  
> a teaching aid for future classes.
> We have submitted 76 Race Street as a possible test garden site for  
> the Sustainable Sites Initiative, the national rating system for  
> sustainable landscaping, comparable to LEEDs Certification in  
> Architecture.
> We are setting up student internship work programs with Foothill  
> College, Cabrillo College, Santa Clara University, and San Jose  
> State. (If you are or know of a student in horticulture, design,  
> art, nutrition, environmental studies, or engineering in any of  
> these schools, who must fulfill an internship requirement, please  
> contact us. We have projects ready for you!)
> On Saturday, January 9, at noon and at 3 p.m., I will present a  
> slideshow called A Master Plan to show you what 76 Race Street can  
> look like as a teaching playground and outdoor classroom. This  
> proposed land use at the corner of Garland Street and Race Street  
> will demonstrate to our community what the future San Jose could  
> look like. To protect and perpetuate nature in San Jose, the city  
> could make room for native gardens, edible gardens, vertical urban  
> farms, subterranean classrooms with living roofs that supply food,  
> and other features that are all included in the master plan.
>
> Join us for the presentation on January 9 (noon or 3 pm) at 76 Race  
> Street and again at the hearing on January 13 (6:30 pm) at the San  
> Jose City Hall Council Chambers.
>
> Thanking you in advance for your much appreciated support,
> Alrie Middlebrook, staff, and all the volunteers at CNGF
>
> Map to San Jose City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose
>
> Parking for San Jose City Hall:
> 4th Street Garage
> 44 S. Fourth St. @ San Fernando
> Across from the Library
> Cost: $3.00 after 6:00PM
>
> City Hall Garage
> 200 E. Santa Clara Street @ 6th Street
> Cost: $0.75 every 20 minutes, $15 max
> More City Hall info at http://www.sanjoseca.gov/newcityhall/ 
> gettingThere.asp#driving
>
>
>

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