On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Student Conservation Association will lead a work party of about 50 youth volunteers, primarily from the East Bay in an urban community-based conservation service project at the Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) in Alameda.

Both SCA and resident APC youths will team up and work together to expand an existing organic community garden. Students will construct planter boxes, spread mulch, and enlarge the availability of growing ground for the garden. Students will also be planting fruit trees, building a chicken coup, and planting potatoes and other crops.

Alameda Point Collaborative residents and staff, alongside SCA leaders, will lead the projects. At 10am, the volunteers will arrive in a special biodiesel school bus. APC staff will greet them, lead them on a tour of the community buildings, and get them started in the garden. At noon, the APC will make a lunchtime presentation on food justice and the relationship between local food preparation and society. After lunch, students will continue working in the garden until 3pm.

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