Garden bike tour July 31st

[Susan Silber]

Hi Kids & Bikes enthusiasts -- we didn't plan a Kidical Mass July ride, but I am organizing a bike ride that stops at inspiring gardens in Berkeley this Saturday. It will be kid-friendly, fun and educational. Hope you can join us! If anyone would like to plan an August ride please let us know. Thanks, Susan Silber

Saturday July 31st at 10 am
Transition Albany <http://transitionalbany.org> presents
Bicycle Tour of Local Urban Gardens and a Mini Farm

Come and be inspired by local gardens and a mini farm in
Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito. All cyclists welcome. We will
keep to bicycle-friendly routes (thanks to EBBC). There is no
charge for this event, and no need to RSVP unless you want to
come on the Early Bird Special. Please bring lunch, water,
sunscreen, helmet, and, if you like, something to share from your
garden. The Main Tour round trip is approximately six miles, with
lengthy breaks!
(Note, next time we would like to include more Albany gardens.
Please contact transitio...@gmail.com
<mailto:transitio...@gmail.com> to be included.)

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL (for those who RSVP only)
9:00 am
Simone's mature quarter-acre plot in the El Cerrito hills
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EC_Green_Community/photos/album/20\
22146084/pic/list> , with bee hives, dozens of chickens, fruit
trees and raised beds is well worth the climb if you're up for
it. This portion is for cyclists who don't mind hills, though the
route is a lot less steep than Moeser.
Please email Claire Norris at songsp...@yahoo.com
<mailto:songsp...@yahoo.com> if you're interested, and
she'll send you details of where to meet.

MAIN TOUR (no need to RSVP) All times are approximate.
10:00 am
Meet up at Albany Community Center parking lot, 1249 Marin
Avenue, Albany.
Travel via Ohlone Greenway to

10:15 am
Gilman Street, Berkeley: first stop, Jim & Eva Wert's certified
Bay-Friendly <http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp?page=8>
garden and tiny back yard with cooped chickens, fruit trees and
intensive year-round vegetables.

10:45 am
Travel via Acton and Virginia to

11:10 am
Bancroft Way, Berkeley, near San Pablo Ave: Jim Montgomery's
Green Faerie Farm, a sustainable urban mini farm with fruit
trees, veggies, goats, chickens, bees, and rabbits. See a short
video about Jim at http://www.ediblecitymovie.com/donate/
<http://www.ediblecitymovie.com/donate/>

12:00 pm
Option A: travel via Ninth and University Village to Madison
Street, Albany, then to B, or
Option B: travel via Ninth and Virginia directly to Cornell
Street, Berkeley

12:20 pm
A: Madison Street, Albany: see Catherine and Leonard's tiny but
productive Albany yard with rainwater dispersal and greywater
features, fruit trees, flowers and vegetables and a cob chicken
house in the making, then continue to
B: Cornell, Berkeley: Susan Silber's new permaculture
<http://permacultureprinciples.com/principles.php> -style
Berkeley garden with raised beds, where there is room for us to
have lunch and pick plums from her tree.

1:30 pm
Travel via Dartmouth and Ohlone Greenway to

1:45 pm
Peralta and Hopkins, Berkeley: tour the Eco House
<http://www.ecologycenter.org/ecohouse/> (a permaculture garden
with rainwater catchment features, a banana tree growing in
greywater, ducks, and a whole lot more.

2:30 pm
Make your own way home.