The ladybugs of Strawberry canyon [Berkeley, Naturally]
Businesses say city’s permit process needs to speed up [Daily Cal]
Playing at eco-fest PlayGreen [BARE]
Canyon group fights Berkeley Lab over laser building [Courthouse News]
Ex-Monterey Market’s Bill Fujimoto talks navel oranges [Oliveto]
Photo: Tire swing, Cedar Creek Montessori by alexrez/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Posts under ‘Nature’
The Berkeley Wire: 3.3.10
Spring has officially sprung
Berkeleyside thinks so, anyway. What do you think?
A green, pedestrian-friendly vision for Downtown
On Saturday Berkeley citizens were given a taste of how their fair city might become quite a bit fairer when the people behind the Streets and Open Space Improvement Plan (SOSIP) held an open house to present a number of possible scenarios to prettify the downtown area.
Not to be confused with the Downtown Area Plan [...]
Cherry blossom season in Berkeley
One of the delights of living in the Bay Area comes in February, when plum and cherry trees start to bloom. While most of the rest of the country sits under a blanket of snow, those of us in northern California get a peek of spring.
Much interest, but still no sign of Honey the goat
It’s day 27 and Honey, the goat that went missing from Tilden Little Farm on January 7, is still nowhere to be found.
David Zuckermann, the park’s supervising naturalist, says there have been many phone calls and lots of interest, particularly after East Bay Regional Parks offered a $1,000 reward for the safe return of the goat, as [...]
Berkeleyites doing their bit for green waste
Most of us in Berkeley have got used to ditching our garden and food waste into our big green wheelie bins and hauling them out for regular collection by the city.
What some of us didn’t know is that, since January 1, had we decided for some reason not to separate our plant debris from the [...]
Have a look: Berkeley, Naturally
Berkeleyside tries to cover some of the amazing variety of our city, but there are times when we look in wonder at the depth that can be found by real specialists. Today I stumbled across Berkeley, Naturally!, subtitled “a celebration of the natural wonders of Berkeley and the East Bay Hills”.
It’s written by Steven Goodheart, [...]
The waters run deep
A Berkeleyside reader sent in this photograph of Vicente Creek running high and furious. It was taken yesterday in his garden in the Claremont neighborhood.
He moved to the house fairly recently — I wonder if the real-estate broker told him about the waterfall on his property?
If you have weather-related pictures to share, send them to [...]
$1,000 reward offered in missing Tilden goat case
Exclusive to Berkeleyside: East Bay Regional Parks is offering a $1,000 reward for the safe return of Honey the goat, as well as the arrest and conviction of the person, or persons, who took her.
Honey went missing from Tilden Little Farm on the evening of January 7 and her disappearance has caused a wave of [...]
Berkeley gardener embraces color
Keeyla Meadows is a Berkeley landscape designer who is passionate about color. I visited her own garden a couple of years ago when writing about it for a garden tour, and it is a riot of saturated hues.
Meadows has a new book: “Fearless Color Gardens: The Creative Gardener’s Guide to Jumping Off the Color Wheel” [...]
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