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Join us in welcoming Rodney Spencer, our new Executive Director - a letter from the Board of Directors
The board of directors of City Slicker Farms are thrilled to introduce Rodney Spencer as the new Executive Director of City Slicker Farms.
You may already know Rodney. He has been a frequent volunteer at both Union Plaza Community Market Farm and the Ralph Bunche Nursery. And if you do know him, you know that he is a warm and generous community leader. Rodney comes to us from our neighbor Vincent Academy, a West Oakland charter school, where he was on the founding team and served most recently as the Director of Extended Learning.
Why Interim is Not Forever: Our Search for Our Next Executive Director
When I started as Interim Executive Director of City Slicker Farms in July 2014, I made a promise to the Board of Directors: we would open the West Oakland Urban Farm and Park on my watch, so that the next permanent Executive Director of the organization could come into leadership without the pressure and distraction of a major construction project and capital campaign.
Well, my friends, we are almost there.
City Slicker Farms Now Accepting Bids for West Oakland Urban Farm and Park Project
INVITATION FOR BIDS
City Slicker Farms will receive bids submitted for:
WEST OAKLAND FARM AND PARK PROJECT
at 2847 Peralta Street, Oakland, CA
After the Vandalism Incident, Why We're Opting for Community Art, Not Security Cameras
At the West Oakland Grown Harvest Festival this past weekend, we celebrated harvest time and the Rebuild of the Community Market Farm at Union Plaza Park with a community art workshop led by Attitudinal Healing Connection, an West Oakland-based organization that is breaking cycles of violence by providing platforms for creative expression and communication for children, youth, adults and families.
The goal of the workshop was to create art with our friends and neighbors that will have a permanent place at the farm at Union. We chose concepts for the art panels that represent the values of City Slicker Farms and what we strive to embody at our farms: Growth, Community and Sharing.
After the August vandalism incident at Union, many asked me if we should install additional security or cameras at our farm site. I think it is natural to respond to a crisis like this with fear and trepidation that it might happen again – I know I did.
But as that fear subsided, and our resolve increased, we knew that our response must be to build community, not take punitive action. So we asked Attitudinal Healing Connection to help us in a first step of creating permanent art for the space that communicates what the Community Market Farm is all about.
This holiday weekend, #GiveASeed and double your impact with City Slicker Farms!
For the next seven days, we have the opportunity to grow something great.
Newman’s Own Foundation has challenged us to raise $10,000 in just seven days. For every donation from now until December 2nd, Newman’s Own Foundation will match dollar for dollar, doubling the impact of our supporters.
This means that your donation of $30 becomes $60, which funds the materials for two new boxes for backyard gardeners.
Your donation of $100 becomes $200, which funds a site visit for a community garden at a senior residential home.
Your donation of $500 becomes $1000, which funds a spring planting of seedlings at our greenhouse.
If we can raise $10,000 in 7 days, we'll be able to build three more gardens for backyard gardeners including two years of skills-building and mentorship, seed hundreds of plants at our greenhouse, and host four more farm visits for kids from our local elementary school.
Join Us for a Oakland Mayoral Candidates Hunger and Poverty Roundtable
