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YEJAA Zine Release Party
We are pleased to invite you to join the Spring 2024 cohort of the Young Environmental Justice Advocates Academy in celebrating the launch of the students' creative advocacy zine!
Student-made zines will be available for all attendees. There will also be eco-centric crafts and activities, as well delicious snacks from local community-focused restaurants.
**Important reminder: For safety reasons, all guests should wear closed-toe shoes and necessary sun protection. Water and snacks will be provided.)
Earth Day
Spend your day caring for and learning about our planet this earth day at Ocean View Growing Grounds!
We’ll observe soil microorganisms under the microscope, learn about native pollinators and composting, and craft! Activities are for all ages!
A huge shout out to San Diego’s Science Fleet Center for lending us the microscopes for the day to look at the microorganisims that make life on earth possible!
No RSVP necessary, see you there!
¡Pase el día cuidando y aprendiendo sobre nuestro planeta este Día De La Tierra en Ocean View Growing Grounds!
Observaremos los microorganismos del suelo bajo el microscopio, aprenderemos sobre los polinizadores nativos y el compostaje, ¡y haremos manualidades! ¡Las actividades son para todas las edades!
¡Un gran agradecimiento al Science Fleet Center de San Diego por prestarnos los microscopios por un día para observar los microorganismos que hacen posible la vida en la Tierra!
No es necesario confirmar asistencia, ¡nos vemos allí!
PARKING: Please avoid parking in the red squared areas to avoid getting towed due to false driveaway that looks like a curb, faded blue curbs, faded red curbs, and parking altercations with residents of the neighborhood. Doing so will prevent rising tension between garden, garden visitors and the neighbors.
Below is a map where green marks the most availble parking.
ESTACIONAMIENTO: Evite estacionar en las áreas de cuadrados rojos para evitar ser remolcado debido a entradas falsas que parecen una acera, aceras azules descoloridas, aceras rojas descoloridas y altercados de estacionamiento con residentes del vecindario. Hacerlo evitará una creciente tensión entre el jardín, los visitantes del jardín y los vecinos.
A continuación se muestra un mapa donde en verde se marcan los aparcamientos más disponibles.
Basics of Pickling
Join us for a Pickling Basics Class!
Learn the art of pickling at our hands-on workshop at Ocean View Growing Grounds. Chef Christina Ng will guide you through the process of creating your own delicious pickled treats by demonstrating both a quick pickling method and a shelf stable pickling method. From cucumbers to carrots to citrus, discover the secrets to making the perfect pickles. This in-person event is a fantastic opportunity to pick up a new skill and meet fellow food enthusiasts. Don't miss out on this fun and educational experience!
Know what you want to pickle? Bring your veggies! Have your own jars? Bring them! We'll show you how to sterilize your jars to make them pickle-ready.
¡Únase a nosotros para una clase de conceptos básicos de encurtido!
Aprenda el arte del encurtido en nuestro taller práctico en Ocean View Growing Grounds. La chef Christina Ng lo guiará a través del proceso de creación de sus propias delicias encurtidas al demostrarle un método de encurtido rápido y fácil de almacenar. Desde pepinos hasta zanahorias y cítricos, descubra los secretos para preparar los encurtidos perfectos. Este evento en persona es una oportunidad fantástica para adquirir una nueva habilidad y conocer a otros entusiastas de la comida. ¡No te pierdas esta experiencia divertida y educativa!
¿Sabes lo que quieres encurtir? ¡Trae tus verduras! ¿Tienes tus propios frascos? ¡Tráelos! Le mostraremos cómo esterilizar sus frascos para que estén listos para encurtir.
PARKING: Please avoid parking in the red squared areas to avoid getting towed due to false driveaway that looks like a curb, faded blue curbs, faded red curbs, and parking altercations with residents of the neighborhood. Doing so will prevent rising tension between garden, garden visitors and the neighbors.
Below is a map where green marks the most availble parking.
ESTACIONAMIENTO: Evite estacionar en las áreas de cuadrados rojos para evitar ser remolcado debido a entradas falsas que parecen una acera, aceras azules descoloridas, aceras rojas descoloridas y altercados de estacionamiento con residentes del vecindario. Hacerlo evitará una creciente tensión entre el jardín, los visitantes del jardín y los vecinos.
A continuación se muestra un mapa donde en verde se marcan los aparcamientos más disponibles.
Arepas Cooking Class
Come join us at Ocean View Growing Grounds for a fun and interactive cooking class! Learn how to make delicious arepas from scratch with our talented local community cook Fanny Contreras and Berry Good Food Foundation’s Chef Christina Ng. This hands-on experience will teach you the secrets to creating the perfect arepa dough and fillings.
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned cook, this class is perfect for anyone looking to expand their culinary skills. Meet new people, enjoy great food, and have a fantastic time at our Arepas Community Cooking Class! Thank you to berrygoodfoodfdn and
wholecitiesfoundation for making these classes become a reality!
YEJAA's Autumn Advocacy Art Fair
Join us for an afternoon of creative advocacy, celebration and community hosted by the Young Environmental Justice Advocates Academy and the Global ARC! The students from the Fall cohort 2023 have harnessed their talents in creative arts to develop moving and poignant imagery to draw attention to the climate crisis, environmental injustice, and the need for urgent action in our communities.
In addition to art displays across a range of mediums - print, collage, paint, linocuts, screen-printing, photography, and more - there will be DIY craft activities, light refreshments, and art available for purchase by donation.
PSRO 7th Annual Community Dialogue
This community event aims to have a meaningful and respectful dialogue among parents, students, residents, School districts, educators, and decisionmakers in a facilitated discussion setting designed to generate a common statement and collective recommendations to the SDUSD 2023-2024 LCAP. LCFF, and a commitment to the action! The themes for this year's dialogue are to highlight shared education successes in pre-and postpandemic, learning loss due to the pandemic, and socio-emotional wellbeing for both students and Educators. *(LCAP Local Control Accountability Plan, (LCFF) Local Control Funding Formula)
Harvest Festival 2023
It is almost the time of the year where we come together as a community for our annual Harvest Festival! Join us at Ocean View Growng Grounds on Nov. 4 to celebrate this year's harvest alongside friends and family.
We will have games, arts & crafts including pumpkin painting, and a Young Environmental Scientist Passport for kids to explore our garden!
Whether you are a gardener, an aspiring gardener or someone who appreciates the art of gardening, we'll have free seeds, herbs, and greens for you to take home!
Our partners at Family Health Center, Inner City Athletic Program, and The Young Environmental Justice Advocates Academy's ambassadors will be joining us.
Make sure to bring all your gardening questions! Our very own agriculture specialists will be more than happy to answer them!
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¡Ya casi es la época del año en la que nos reunimos como comunidad para nuestro Festival anual de la Cosecha! Únase a nosotros en Ocean View Growng Grounds el 4 de noviembre para celebrar la cosecha de este año junto a amigos y familiares.
¡Tendremos juegos, artes y manualidades, incluida la pintura de calabazas, y un pasaporte para jóvenes científicos ambientales para que los niños exploren nuestro jardín!
Si usted es un jardinero, es alguien que aprecia el arte de la jardinería, ¡tendremos semillas, hierbas y verduras gratis para que se las lleve a casa!
Nuestros socios del Family Health Center, el Inner City Athletic Program y los embajadores de la Academia de Jóvenes Defensores de la Justicia Ambiental se unirán a nosotros.
¡Asegúrate de traer todas tus preguntas sobre jardinería! ¡Nuestros propios especialistas en agricultura estarán felices de responderles!
Summer pruning Wokshop - 2023
Prune alongside our urban agriculture specialist as we go over how pruning has improved our fruit trees health. We'll be going over tomato plant pruning, and how we finally got to grow basil successfully - take some home!
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Pode junto con nuestra especialista en agricultura urbana mientras analizamos cómo la poda ha mejorado la salud de nuestros árboles frutales. Repasaremos la poda de plantas de tomate y cómo finalmente pudimos cultivar albahaca con éxito: ¡llévate un poco a casa!
2nd Annual Wise Elders Changemaker Awards
The Global Action Research Center’s President/CEO, Paul L Watson Jr., and Associate Executive Director, William T Oswald will receive the 2023 Wise Elder Changemaker Award from University of California, San Diego. They will receive this award in acknowledgement of the Global ARC’s 10 years of social change work within San Diego.
The event will be taking place online through zoom.
The Block Party
This year our Young Environmental Justice Advocates partnered with with the UCSD’s Climate Justice Action Research Scholars and together planned The Block Party!
These young scholars held their event at the Ocean View Growing Grounds, using the various stations to provide a fun way for the community to get together and learn and talk about climate and environmental justice and mental health!
Organic Fertilizing Wokshop
Join us at Ocean View Growing Grounds to learn about how we fertilize our garden via foliage fertilizing to increase yield, overall fruit sweetness, and nutrition density of each fruit.
We encourage you to bring seeds, tree branch cuttings about a width of a pencil, and harvest to share with other attendees.
Free seeds will be offered too!
Our workshop will be lead by our own urban agricultural specialist.
YEJA Fall Cohort Graduation
Come celebrate our students as they complete the program and are presented with their certificates of achievment! Light refreshments will be provided and we will be joined by a host of different speakers, including City Council President Pro Tem Monica Montgomery!
Harvest Festival
This year’s annual Harvest Festival was another fantastic success! Community members and partners got together at Ocean View Growing Grounds to celebrate our harvest and learn more about our environmental justice learning hub.
We had activities like Pumpkin painting, a Young Environmental Scientist Passport for kids to learn about different ways to combat climate change, and fun games brought by The Inner City Athletic Program (ICAP)!
Guides on propagating, growing, and seed-saving native plants were provided to local growers and many gardening related questions were answered!
Click the button below to view the recap!
Summer Pruning Workshop
Join us at the Ocean View Growing Grounds for a free educational session on the importance of pruning fruit trees during the summer. The workshop will be lead by organic farmer and sustainable consultant, Scott Murray, who will share his knowledge on pruning and its benefits to increasing fruit yield, fruit tree health, and disease prevention in the summer.
Healthy Family Nights- Karen Organization of San Diego
The Global Action Research Center, with support from the Childhood Obesity Initiative, presents another edition of our Healthy Family Nights Series! Come to the Ocean View Growing Grounds to enjoy a free, nutritious, and vegetarian dinner prepared by the Karen Organization of San Diego. The plate of the evening will be a traditional Burmese dish!
Healthy Family Nights- Inner City Athletic Program
The Global Action Research Center, with support from the Childhood Obesity Initiative, presents another edition of our Healthy Family Nights Series! Come to the Ocean View Growing Grounds to enjoy a free, nutritious dinner prepared by the Inner City Athletic Program. The plate of the evening is baked chicken and vegetables with rice, accompanied by games for the whole family and conversations with new friends!
Healthy Family Nights- Latinos y Latinas en Acción
Enjoy a nutritious and free dinner prepared by Latinos y Latinas en Acción with neighbors and new friends! Learn about the featured cuisine & take home the recipe!
Healthy Family Nights- United Women of East Africa
This Friday, March 25, come to the Ocean View Growing Grounds to enjoy a freedelicious meal prepared by the United Women of East Africa. You can learn more about the featured dishes and a copy of the recipes will be available for you to take home!
Harvest Festival
Join us for our Harvest Festival, this event is free and everyone is welcome! There will be games, tours of the growing grounds, pumpkin decorating, food, and more!
Location is at the Oceanview Growing Grounds (4540 Ocean View Blvd. San Diego CA. 92113)
The Future is In Our Hands
City Heights Youth for Change will precent their process on their training about the knowledge of climate change and the messaging of taking care of the planet because no one else will. The youth will have a dialogue with the community about the importance of taking care of our world with the message of “TIME IS RUNNING OUT”
The mural unveiling will take place at 12pm at 4089 Fairmount Ave, San Diego, CA 92105