Americorps Experience: Latest Posts
Welcome back to The Americorps Experience Blog. Today we talk to Stuart Blackwell. Stuart is a grower in our community nursery and one of the principal organizers of the Spring Plant Sale. He is a native son of Virginia, and a deep, philosophical thinker. We hope you enjoy this interview.
The Americorps Experience Blog collects stories, interviews, and anecdotes from the Americorps Members working with Our City Forest. Today we talk to David Tull. David is a Lawn Buster with Our City Forest and guest blogger for our other blog. As part of the Lawn Busters team, David replaces lawns with drought-friendly, native plant-dominated xeriscapes. David is longtime resident of the Bay Area, a father and a hilarious dry wit and . In this interview we talk about his life, the Lawn Busters as the Marine Corps and whether gravity really is a mysterious carriage to offset the deficits of the mind.
The Americorps Experience Blog collects stories, interviews, and anecdotes from the Americorps Members working with Our City Forest. Today we talk to Robert Castañeda. Robert is a Planting Coordinator with Our City Forest. He organizes, arranges and executes large-scale community planting projects in the Silicon Valley. At plantings Robert can often be found with a pickaxe in his hand and a big smile on his face during planting demos. Robert is a gamer, a night owl IT guy, and bro-nerd who totally knows what Chemical X does. In this interview we talk about what it takes to conduct a planting, reinventing yourself and the people make us want to leave the world a better place.