Arnie Cornez hails from Portola Valley and helps out on a variety of projects. He has collected garden apprentices from the airport headed for our research garden in Willits. Arnie offered to buy paint and paint our lattice work on the fence. We had a 2 day painting party. You may have notice the beautiful lovely green color that spiffs up the fence? He also helps us move those heavy fertilizers from back stock to front stock! Thank YOU Arnie.

Ann Ercolani balances our books (thank goodness) She is a CPA and likes to exercise and stay fit. She is the organizer for her family. Imagine volunteering ...doing what you normally get paid for!! That is what our beloved Anne does. She is articulate, friendly and efficient...month in and month out!!

Bob Griffin keeps our center, storage area, and display areas safe and in good shape. His maintenance skills and talents are a valuable contribution to Common Ground. You may notice our rolling display cart that Bob made.

Glenda Jones designs and lays out our newsletter and class schedule. She patiently makes changes, and incorporates her fun artwork into the newsletter. We love Glenda!

Gerard Lum, our wonderful webmaster, who, magically and mysteriously, beautifies and organizes our website! He spends hours upon hours making the site user-friendly to new visitors as well as our regulars.

Susie Mader has been volunteering with Common Ground since the beginning of Common Ground. Her contributions include landscape design, and coordinating with many local businesses for their contributions to our Silent Auction. She also teaches very popular container gardening and sustainable landscaping classes with us.

Chuck Mc Donnell: Our accurate seed tester and germinator! This is a very important job that get done every year and in-between. Chuck is great with his record keeping, willingness and sense of humor. Thank goodness for Chuck. He and his beautiful wife Cathy have one of the most productive and wonderful edible and ornamental gardens. They often share the bounty with us here at the store. The vegetables taste delicious.

William Mutch is a delightful gentleman. He has diverse interests including carnivorous plants and permaculture design practices. William is knowledgeable, helpful, an avid reader and great at teaching children. He is currently on our Membership Team and a self-proclaimed Common Ground field rep.

We can depend on Michelle Perkowski like we depend on the sun coming up every day! She arrives every Thursday morning and stays till 3pm and does what ever needs to be done. She cleans, makes envelopes out of old calendars, calls removes our name from mailing lists and does We adore Michelle.

Maryanne Romanowski is starting us out on Quickbooks accounting software to facilitate our bookkeeping and ease co-ordination with other Ecology Action functional areas. Her help is instrumental in streamlining the business of Common Ground.

Collin Stone designs beautiful flyers to advertise our Saturday classes. Collins colorful, beautiful eye-catching flyers are each a piece of work on their own. They help spread the news about our educational programs. He makes the MOST gorgeous gardening class flyers you have ever and will ever see. They are collectors items for the teachers and us. We appreciate Collin very very much

Rich Tucker is our jack-of-all trades. Whether it's securing the tomato cage display, or installing back-up power supplies for our computer, he's our man, and we're thankful to have him.

Sergey Tsybanov - you can see him here Saturday afternoons as he helps with whatever is happening on those busy days to make the center run more harmoniously.

Heather Williams comes in two days a week and does some artwork, takes care of our plants, and does various other tasks as needed.

Irina Yegorova - you can see her Thursday at the main desk doing much-needed and appreciated administrative assistance. She is very fast and accurate.

And a special thanks to:

Dick Clark, designed the wonderful planting calendars that so many people used as a reference for what to plant when in the Bay Area. His excellent design sense made these calendars easy to read and use.

Robert Nissenbaum and his cute puppy Simba for leading the collaboration with Whole Foods in Palo Alto. Common Ground is selected as the Community Support/5% Day recipient, on Thursday, September 21, 2006. Three cheers for Robert!

A big cheer for other volunteers, past and present, we love you! You keep us going strong.

-> See Photos of all of them in action.

Phillip Donnell, Pria Graves, Patricia St. John, Mike Shannon, Preeva Tramiel, Sharon Pfaender, Frank Niccoli, Karen Wheeler, Angela Gordon, Debbie Mytels, Sandy Gordon, Craig Burns, Mike Kupfer, Ian and Carol Kiparsky, Carol Vesecky, Sunia Yang, Lenore Chimes, Amy Morris, Lea Feinstein, Mark Georgia, Susan Stansbury, and the current regular crew.