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Trellis and sign stand at the entrance to the Urban Community Gardening class plot at the Lakeside Park Garden Center in Oakland, CA., on September 23, 2025. 

Merritt College urban garden class sows “practical skills”

Every Tuesday morning, Tom Branca and his students gather far from Merritt College’s campus in the Oakland hills to the heart of Lake Merritt.
Eliot Faine, Multimedia Editor October 6, 2025
The class works on a slightly different schedule than the Peralta Community College District’s semester system. According to Branca, students take a break around the December holidays, and resume their work before the semester officially starts in January or beyond when it ends in May.

Mudlights

admin October 27, 2017

Three visitors of the Autumn Lights Festival in the Gardens at Lake Merritt look into a mirror, alit by its frame of dotted blue and pink lights. The festival occurred October 19–21, marking Laney...

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