The Peralta Hacienda Historical Park

Piedmont Garden Club will collaborate with the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, a community center serving the ethnically diverse Fruitvale district of Oakland, California. The Fruitvale district has few green spaces, the highest percentage of children of any Oakland district, and the highest concentration of Native Americans in the Bay area. The Peralta Hacienda Historical Park provides gathering space for various cultural communities and serves as a bridge between people and nature, people of different cultures, and people of different generations and abilities. The focus will be on environmental education and stewardship. The PGC will collaborate on the restoration of the native plant garden and expand the small pollinator garden and native plant riparian habitat along the Peralta Creek, as well as assist in the monthly clean-up days by providing landscape maintenance guidance and educational programs to further expand its reach into this underserved community. The PGC will also work with the Water Keepers youth program and the ACE summer camp