Master Gardener Projects

Alameda County Master Gardeners participate in several gardening projects around the county. This page highlights some of the things in which we are involved.

Garden Of Grace

The Garden of Grace, located at Asbury Methodist Church, 4643 East Avenue, Livermore is a unique partnership between the Alameda County Master Gardeners, Garden of Grace, Asbury Community, and Open Heart Kitchen. The Open Heart Kitchen and the Garden of Grace partner to grow, prepare and serve healthy food to Livermore’s hungry. Fresh organic produce is hand-carried directly from the Garden of Grace to the Asbury kitchen where Open Heart volunteers use the produce in their meals. Peelings and scraps are returned to the garden to be composted and then used to fertilize the next garden vegetable crop.

The Garden of Grace, founded by Alameda County Master Gardeners Bruce Campbell and Mark Brunell, provides a year-round stream of organic vegetables to the Open Heart Kitchen. Other missions of the Garden include teaching sustainable/organic gardening, providing a local organic demonstration and crop trials garden, raising awareness of the importance of urban/suburban food and championing and facilitating its production.

The webpage http://www.asburygardenofgrace.org/ contains information on many aspects of the garden including volunteering, crop yields, data logs, the Garden calendar (including volunteer days) and classes and lectures such as the monthly Learning Series - monthly classes open to the community on a variety of timely gardening topics.

Become a fan and follow the Garden on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/AsburyGardenofGrace

The Garden of Grace is run by the nonprofit group Fertile Ground Works: Teach, Grow, Give.