Celebrate the planet at Earth Week Festival
Earth Day is April 22 this year, but one day is not enough for Beth LaDove, a landscape designer and the co-founder of Ground, a home and garden goods store in Tiburon.
“Every day is Earth Day for us at Ground, so we extended the celebration into a whole week so that we can offer more fun and free information to more people,” says LaDove, referencing the store's inaugural tribute to the health and wellbeing of our planet.
She says that guests “can expect lots of on-demand plant and garden advice and a fun and relaxing time in our beautiful gardens, and, of course, great plants, gifts and pour-over coffee for sale.”
There will also be pie.
“We're very excited by the return by popular demand of
(East Bay's) A Pie in the Sky on April 21,” she says. “Many of the people who came to our last pop-up with them said it was the best pie they ever had.”
Among the choices will be apple streusel pie with caramel; strawberry rhubarb pie with oat crumble; lime cream pie; sunchoke, tomato and zucchini galette; orange and pineapple galette; and banana, almond and Nutella galette.
Pies will be available whole or by the slice and customers may also pre-order pies. A pre-order link, along with pie choices and prices, will be available on Ground's website starting Tuesday.
There will also be children's story times and a children's treasure hunt happening on demand every day.
So far, Tora Rocha and Terry Smith, co-founders of the Pollinator Posse, and Dana Swisher, the founder of Refugia Marin, are among Ground's special guest speakers.
The Pollinator Posse is an educational organization that develops and encourages pollinator-friendly landscaping and Refugia Marin is an educational organization that promotes the use of native plants and creates wildlife habitats.
LaDove is adding more events to Ground's website but here's the schedule so far. Some of the hours are tentative, so it's best to call and confirm before you go.
April 21
• LaDove answers garden questions, plus gives a tour of Ground's gardens, from noon to 4 p.m.