Feb 12: Peralta Hacienda Chooses “Food From Our Gardens” as Annual Theme

Friends of Peralt... Thu, 10 Feb at 8:32am
Pumpkin Vines grown in Peralta Hacienda community gardens

Pumpkin Vines grown in Peralta Hacienda community gardens

The Peralta Hacienda community is working to unite Oaklanders through sharing stories and discovering our common history. Nothing does the job quite like food.

Visitors to the Peralta House Museum love hearing dramatized audio recordings of old Spanish feasts, and the parents of summer campers always outdo themselves at the community banquet: overloading tables with their traditional family delicacies. As part of the community’s goal to promote health, traditional arts, and environmental sustainability, the theme of Peralta Hacienda’s annual meeting on February 12 will be “Foods From Our Gardens.”

 

Everyone is welcome to join for all or part of the day's events:

 

12:30 pm - Harvest Potluck - bring your favorite dish to share. Use a garden-fresh ingredient, or a favorite family recipe!

1:00 pm - Annual meeting featuring short, light-hearted address from the Executive Director and Board Chair. Current members (including day-of signups) vote on Board of Directors. 

1:30 pm - Celine Laubsch demonstrates nutritious and healing native plants: elderberries, stinging nettles, rosehips, manzanita berries, and more!

 

Stay afterwards for a uniquely Oakland exhibit opening at 2:30!

About Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park is a Fruitvale-based non-profit that runs the Peralta House Museum and provides school field trips, after-school and summer programs, volunteer opportunities, community parties and cultural events. The mission of Friends is to promote understanding, historical healing and community amid change and diversity, and to give voice to the many cultures that have created – and are still transforming – California. The park was once the headquarters of the 45,000-acre Rancho San Antonio, and the first European building in the East Bay. Today, the Peralta House Museum is full of five-senses exhibits about Fruitvale history. Pay a visit, and leave your story!