Media

April 2023 - Montclarion/East Bay Times Feature Article, Founder of Oakland’s popular Plant Exchange retiring after 15 years

September 2020 - Oaklandside (Bottom of the article), Oakland Plant Nurseries are Booming During the Pandemic

March 2020 - Piedmont Living (Page 15), The Plant Exchange – Changing the World One Plant at a Time

January 2020 - Piedmont Living, She Planted a Seed and Watched it Grow

March 2019 - Edible East Bay, Gardener’s Give and Take

March 2019 - Local News Matters, Spring Plant Exchange In Oakland Is More Than Just A Plant Swap

February 2019 - The San Francisco Chronicle, Rainbow Sign was herald of black culture

November 2017 - North Oakland Senior Center Newsletter, Healthy Living: It Took a Village

June 2018 - The Wall Street Journal, Plant Swaps: The Cheap Way to Score Rare Houseplants

March 2018 - Edible East Bay, Give a Plant, Take a Plant

October 2017 - Castro Valley Forum, Free Plant Exchange Celebrates Tenth Anniversary on Saturday

October 2017 - Hoodline, 10th Annual Plant Exchange Brings Gardening Community into Full Bloom

October 2017 - Edible East Bay, Recharge Your Garden at The Plant Exchange

October 2017 - Garden Collage, The Oakland Plant Exchange

October 2017 - Cole Hardware Hotline, The Plant Exchange

August 2017 - KGO810 Radio, The Fall Plant Exchange

August 2017 - 560KSFO Radio, The Fall Plant Exchange

August 2017 - San Fransisco Chronicle Home and Garden Section, Plant Exchange Anniversary

March 2017 - Castro Valley Forum, Thousands Expected for Free Plant Exchange

March 2017 - Garden Collage, Events We Love: The Plant Exchange

October 2016 - Oakland North, Plant Exchange makes recycling plants a reality

October 2015 - Sunset.com Westphoria blog, Free plants for all

October 2014 - Oakland North, Community plant exchange gives new life to old plants on OaklandNorth.net along with the following video: Plant Exchange from Oakland North on Vimeo.

March 2014 - The San Francisco Chronicle, Golden Gate Gardening on SFGate.com

March 2014 - Odette Pollar talks about The Plant Exchange on KTVU-TV‘s, Bay Area People: https://vimeo.com/90186259

March 2014 - Inside Bay Area, “Volunteers needed for Neighborhood Plant Exchange”

March 2014 - For immediate release: The Plant Exchange is moving! New home – the front lawn of the First Presbyterian Church – 27TH and Broadway in Oakland. Press release.

March 2013- On March 28, 2013, the Piedmont Patch posted a write-up about us and included a link to a column one of their contributors wrote last year, Annual Lakeshore Plant Exchange is Saturday

March 2013 - Lakeshore Neighborhood Plant Exchange Returns Saturday, Volunteers Still Welcome.

October 2011– Free Oakland plant exchange a blooming sensation

October 2010 - Dig It!, An interview with Odette Pollar

May 2009 –Odette Pollar is interviewed in: Economy spawns a new type of swap meet