Celebrating Guadalupe Gardens, Earth Day and the Great Outdoors

Saturday, April 24, 2010
10 AM - 3 PM
Guadalupe Gardens
Between Coleman Avenue and Taylor Street
408-298-7657

40+ vendors selling plants, garden art, etc.
Heritage Rose Garden in Full-Bloom
Free Compost - Bring your own bucket!
Free 6" Green Plant from Navlet's with Coupon
Compost Bin Sales (SJ residents only!)
Alternative Energy
Healthy Living Information and Activities
Sheep in the Historic Orchard

Free parking along surface streets, click here for map! -- Directions

Please, no cans, or bottles allowed.

 

 

Volunteers
We need help with all sorts of things including: set up, tear down, answering phones, volunteer check in, donation drawing ticket sales, compost giveaway, surveys, security, bounce house attendant, photograpy, and other tasks as needed.

Click here to register on-line

 

 

Expert Garden Advice


Colorful booths at SGG


San Jose Heritage Rose Garden in full bloom


TheHistoric Orchard will be open for exploration

 

 

Entertainment

Main Stage Schedule

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Nature Inspired Yoga
Join Guadalupe River Park Conservancy Yoga instructor Kristin Strellis as she guides you through poses inspired by nature.
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM Pearly Blue Bluegrass Band
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Pearly Blue Bluegrass Band
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Rain Water Harvesting and Grey-water basics
Learn simple, cheap, and safe ways to recycle the water flowing down your gutters and reuse it for your garden or landscape. Live demonstration and displays of how to install simple residential systems that dont require construction permits. Taught by Alan Hackler, LEED AP from Middlebrook Gardens.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Backyard Chickens 101 w/ Melissa Patel from Full Circle Farms
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Line Dance Instruction w/ Celia Liang

All Day

  • Bounce Houses
  • Family Yoga and Fitness in Nature
    Join local Yoga and Fitness Instructor Kristin Strellis and experience how Yoga, movement and song can bring health and bonding to your whole family.  We will also explore fitness games using recycled items.
  • Guadalupe Community Garden
    Will be open for touring...one of our volunteers also happens to be a plot holder and she'll be on hand to show people around...a rare treat since the gates are normally locked.
Vendors & Participants
(Interested? Call Phil at 408-298-7657)
FREE -- Electronic Waste RECYCLING

Fund Raiser Benefiting the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

We Take All Computer & Electronic Equipment Including:

  • Desktops, laptops & PDAs
  • Mice and keyboards
  • Monitors and televisions w Stereos, radios & players
  • Printers, copy & fax machines
  • VCRs, DVD players, etc.
  • Computer systems (we erase HDs)
  • Telephones & cell phones

Click here to see a full page flyer about this. (1 MB .pdf file)

More detailed list of items that can be dropped off. (.4 MB .pdf file)
Donation Drawing Prizes
 Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Guadalupe River Park Conservancy
The Sports Basement $100 in gift certificates
Yamagami's Nursery 5- Gallon Shade Tree Gift Certificate
The Worm Dude One Worm Inn w/ Stand
Target at San Jose MarketCenter $100 in gift cards
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society 3 Nesting Boxes
Navlet’s Fine Flowers Gift Certificate with Vase
Regan Nursery $200 in gift certificates
Capitol Wholesale Nursery $50 Gift Certificate
Sweet Tomatoes Several Reusable Canvas Bags
Sumiko Yoshii, Dedicated Volunteer Water Bottle Slings made from recycled plastic grocery bags
Four Winds Nursery 2 Dwarf Citrus Trees
AJ's Auto Detailing Free Mini Detail
Summer Winds Nursery Beautiful Live Plant Pot
Central Wholesale Nursery 2 Flats of Annuals

This is only a small sample of what will be available as many of the prizes will come from vendors the day of the event.

Tickets are 1 for $1, or 12 for $10. Purchase on-line and we'll fill them out for you and put them in the basket, or we can send them to you for filling out. Then you can bring them the day of or drop them by any time before the big event! Need not be present to win. Proceeds benefit our many education programs.

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Please do NOT include a dollar sign in the field above.

 
Sponsors

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supporters

EarthCare Recycling
Silicon Valley Community Newspapers
Target at San Jose MarketCenter
Navlet’s Fine Flowers
Zero Waste Event!
We've decided to make this a Zero Waste Event as defined by the City of San Jose. We hope you can help us meet the requirements...here are some of the things we are doing:
  • 4 Eco-Stations will be strategically located throughout the event. They will offer visitors the option to place things in the trash, in the recycling bin, or in the composting bin. Volunteers will staff each station to help people make the right choice.
  • All of the food we will be serving will be compostable intself and be served on paper products that can be composted.
  • Many of the materials used to produce the event are reusable, such as burlap table clothes, clay pot booth markers, signage, etc.
  • Compost will be available in plastic bags, but there will also be some set aside for folks who bring their own buckets...next year, after people get the message, all of it will be for bucket bringers only.
  • We've gone almost entirely digital...very few paper fliers were printed this year!
To learn more about this program, visit click here!