Reach out to us via our contact page if you would like to arrange a guest speaker for your event, professional group, garden club, classroom or other organization. We can provide a variety of presentations on the status of pollinators, supportive gardening practices...
The iridescent blue Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly looks tropical but it’s native to the East Bay hills. Its caterpillars can only survive eating the California Pipevine, which once grew in the creek beds and wild places. Since we have covered or developed most of...
Since 2010, significant portions of the Gardens at Lake Merritt have been converted from lawn to pollinator habitat. This portion was planted to honor the memory of Lucille Rocha and offer nectar and host plants for pollinators. A tranquil Seed Fountain quenches the...
On September 10, 2011, in commemoration of 10th Anniversary of 9/11, volunteers established this commemorative plot beautifying Oakland’s Veterans Memorial Building. Local vets recruited by The Mission Continues worked alongside community members to get this garden...
The Bee Hotel (Gardens at Lake Merritt) With a design by Oakland City Carpenter, Troy Bally, inspired by Paris’s own bee hotel, our Hotel “opened” Earth Day 2013. Native bees dwell in wood and holes bored into the Hotel’s blocks offer the insects shelter to nest...
