Garden teacher Kim Allen offers youth space to grow
Kim Allen at the Bancroft Community Garden. Photo: Sarah Henry. For four years Kim Allen has served as garden program manager for Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA), which provides a minimum-wage,...
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Gardeners working at the Berkeley Youth Alternatives garden. Photo: BYA. It doesn’t get more locavore than this. On Sunday February 20, Berkeley restaurant eVe is partnering with the Berkeley Youth...
View ArticleBerkeley youth program gets temporary reprieve
BYA youth maintain two city parks and work at BYA's own community garden. Photo: BYA A city-funded youth employment program which is facing the axe has had a temporary reprieve and will continue to...
View ArticleYouth program to close after 18 years for lack of funds
BYA garden crew share a Thanksgiving meal. Left to right: Nahom Fasil, Kithorny Porter, Andranee Nabors, and Davion Barnes. Photo: Kim Allen. Update, 6:34pm: An earlier version of this story...
View ArticleField trip highlights programs in food-forward Berkeley
Foraging at the farmers' market, which will be included on Saturday's Bay Area Green Tour of Berkeley's food hot spots Tomorrow, Bay Area Green Tours co-hosts a food field trip spotlighting some of the...
View ArticleBerkeley residents tackle safety issues after shootings
More than 100 people gathered in southwest Berkeley Monday evening to discuss local crime. Photos: Tracey Taylor Two weeks after two multiple shootings rattled southwest Berkeley residents, more than a...
View ArticleBerkeley Youth Alternatives attracts statewide attention
The walls of the Berkeley Youth Alternatives building on Allston and Bonar are covered in murals by past students. Photo: Eden Teller When Kevin D. Williams first found himself at Berkeley Youth...
View ArticleBerkeley offers free summer lunches, snacks for youth
Photo: Reed Sandridge Berkeley is facilitating free lunches and snacks for under-18-year-olds this summer at locations across the city. In the Berkeley Unified School District, 42 percent of students...
View ArticleBOSS to honor Berkeley’s ‘Rising Stars’ on Thursday
Kyle Evans, a Rising Star honoree, plans to attend Brown University. His family was homeless for several years. Photo: BOSS A year ago, Kyle Evans and his family were sleeping in motel rooms and, at...
View ArticleBerkeley teen, recent grad, shot to death in Oakland
Ayana Dominguez (right) at a Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA) graduation program June 6 with her counselor Jamee Harris. Photo: BYA Ayana Dominguez, an aspiring hairstylist and 18-year-old recent...
View ArticleElisha Davis: Determined to be great, on and off the court
Elisha Davis, a Berkeley High alum, is succeeding on the court and off at Arizona State. Photo: Sun Devil Athletics For a college student athlete, there is no season more important than your senior...
View ArticleBerkeley Bites: The Bread Workshop’s Bill Briscoe
William (Bill) Briscoe has been in the food business for more than 30 years. He started as a dishwasher, went on to work as a short-order cook in a steakhouse, then did stints in five-star restaurants...
View ArticleGarden teacher Kim Allen offers youth space to grow
Kim Allen at the Bancroft Community Garden. Photo: Sarah Henry. For four years Kim Allen has served as garden program manager for Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA), which provides a minimum-wage,...
View ArticleBerkeley club partners with youth group for bowling fun
A BYA summer camper “bowls” to the target. Photo: Jim Corr Lawn bowling is often (mistakenly) seen as a sport of ‘the older set.’ This summer, the Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club (BLBC) set out to counter...
View ArticleBerkeley Bites: The Bread Workshop’s Bill Briscoe
William (Bill) Briscoe has been in the food business for more than 30 years. He started as a dishwasher, went on to work as a short-order cook in a steakhouse, then did stints in five-star restaurants...
View ArticleGarden teacher Kim Allen offers youth space to grow
For four years Kim Allen has served as garden program manager for Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA), which provides a minimum-wage, internship program for socio-economically challenged adolescents ages...
View ArticleMade in Berkeley: Dirt Dinners celebrate local food
It doesn’t get more locavore than this. On Sunday February 20, Berkeley restaurant eVe is partnering with the Berkeley Youth Alternatives garden to serve the first in a series of family-style “dirt...
View ArticleBerkeley youth program gets temporary reprieve
A city-funded youth employment program which is facing the axe has had a temporary reprieve and will continue to operate over the summer. Berkeley Youth Alternatives provides minimum-wage positions for...
View ArticleYouth program to close after 18 years for lack of funds
Update, 6:34pm: An earlier version of this story erroneously reported that the city had withdrawn funding this year for the garden program which is closing. The funding was in fact for the BYA’s...
View ArticleField trip highlights programs in food-forward Berkeley
Berkeley's alternative food programs and businesses in the spotlight on a food soverignty tour co-hosted by Bay Area Green Tours Saturday.
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