Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

In the world of gardens, a few weeks can make a big difference. Vallejo?s Westwood Neighborhood Community Garden attests to that. Two months ago, a visitor to the eastside community garden would have seen an empty piece of land being prepared for gardening. Today, the space, which sits between two rather aging apartments, is a [...]

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I was sitting in my garden recently and from out of nowhere, a ladybug landed on my hand. I watched the tiny red and black creature make its way up my forearm. A few seconds later, I heard the distinctive sound of a hummingbird as it rapidly flapped its way toward the feeder that I [...]

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Alma Upshaw?s earliest memories are of her mother tending her beloved roses. Some 40-plus years later, Upshaw has channeled her mother?s love into her own, and then some. Upshaw?s Tuolumne Street backyard is a fitting and living tribute to her late mother, Oneta Bernstine, who loved all plants, especially roses. Her inherited love is vividly [...]

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Blame it on the old, craggy juniper bushes. Brian Hicks had just about had it with the overgrown and unsightly bushes that greeted Millennium Sports Club members as they made their way to the gym. ?It was a mess,? Hicks said, recalling the endless hours spent trying to maintain and clean out the 50-year old [...]

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Not even a torrential downpour like the one that hit Vallejo Sunday kept die-hard garden lovers from attending the city?s annual garden tour. About 400 hearty souls braved sometimes heavy downpours to attend the ?Vallejo D?Vine!? tour to benefit the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. And for their bravery, tourgoers were treated to a wide [...]

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John Allen believes that growing a community is much like tending a garden.

To that end, Allen, a project organizer for Vallejo?s Fighting Back Partnership, hopes that a year-old community garden on Westwood Avenue will be the seed that sparks the East Vallejo neighborhood?s revitalization.

Allen, and volunteers from area organizations, including the Bay Area Alumni Group and Church on the Hill, will pitch in Saturday, May 13 to help prepare the neighborhood community garden.

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