Garden party tomorrow July 24th—small adjustment given rising case counts

Our monthly garden party is being adjusted to reflect the rapidly-increasing COVID case count in Alameda County. This Saturday, Tetrahedron will only be selling retail bags of freshly roasted coffee, and our baker friends will be offering their treats To Go. We will have jolly hand-drawn maps you can steal with our favorite walking and biking voyages so that you can explore what makes Alameda such a great place.

To Go items will include treats from Nicole’s Kitchin (a friend of Night Heron who is happily filling their spot while they’re on vacation) and as usual cinnamon rolls from Made from Scratch by Diallo. We will have retail bags of our carefully roasted coffee beans, but not be pouring brewed coffee.

This will all be available at 312 Santa Clara Ave in Alameda from 10 am till noon.

The front and back garden will be open for masked touring so you can see how things have progressed in a month (Big sunflowers! Roses! New benches!) but please carry your food away with you to a nearby beach or park to enjoy some of the local beauty while you munch. We want you to have a positive time, but not a positive covid test.

Thank you so much for loving what we do! And a bit about why the pause on business as usual:

All of the Tetrahedron team have kids who are well under vaccination age, including one tiny guy who’s only two months old. In March of this year we opened the garden to serve coffee, but only once the daily case count was below 10 per 100k. As of the writing of this note, the case count is over 16 per 100k—well above our comfort zone. We’re vaccinated— you might be too—but breakthrough cases are real and we’re not comfortable placing your or our kids or immunocompromised relatives at further risk.

We’re keeping a close eye on the case rate and we’ll update our party as needed to keep everyone safe, including closing if it’s too smoky later. The garden party is important for us as a community to feel connected and alive, but nothing is worth spreading COVID to vulnerable people in our population.

BIG LOVE from us to you. We’ll get through this!

Andrea, Alex & Rohan (and our families)