Gardens
Veggie Pizza with Hayward Rec Summer Program
CommunityGrows Summer Program is well underway with cooking at Hayward Recreation Center. On Monday, June 17th, pizza was on the menu. Adrian Almquist led the group in making the dough for the pizzas, while Adrian Gaino, our Cooking Instructor kept the youth chopping away, slicing and dicing vegetables. Venyse Sims and Barbara Nguyen, two of [...]
Mrs. Meyer’s comes to Rosa Parks!
The big lime green Mrs. Meyer’s van showed up at Rosa Parks Elementary School on Friday, June 14th, and out popped four ambassadors to help with our CommunityGrows Summer Science Program. They came because we won a grant from the American Community Gardening Association (ACGA), which promotes community gardening and greening across the United States [...]
Pie and Ice Cream for Lisa
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie and Vanilla ice cream. Apricot Danish rings. Peach-Blueberry pie. Salted caramel and balsamic strawberry ice cream. What a way to send off someone we adore. Lisa Drogin said “good-bye” to CommunityGrows and the BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) program on Thursday, June 11, 2013. Lisa has been the Program [...]
Watering with the Summer Beacon in Koshland
On June 12, 2013 the Summer Beacon youth came to Koshland Garden for their afternoon science fun. And what could be more fun than watering the garden. This is something that brings out the joy in youth. Filling water buckets, carrying them down the garden paths, tipping them, pouring water on the thirsty plants and [...]
Summer Science with the Buchanan YMCA
On Monday, June 10th, the staff of CommunityGrows began their summer science program with Buchanan YMCA youth at Rosa Parks Elementary School. Although it was 10 AM in the morning, everyone was wide awake, relaxed and ready to have some summer fun! After taking attendance and reading the garden rules, the kids had a chance [...]
After School at Cobb Elementary Garden
These last few days of the school year are so sunny, warm and joyful. Yesterday, May 29, 2013 for instance, brought everyone out after-school to the schoolyard for playing games, running, and working in the garden! William L. Cobb Elementary School, a K-5 San Francisco public school, has a great little garden just off the [...]
Mrs. Jefferson’s Kindergarden at Rosa Parks
Who could ask for a better day? Today, May 20, 2013 the Kinder-gardener’s in Ms. Jefferson’s class got a treat! Out to the garden in the morning to start the week at Rosa Parks! After a lesson in harvesting and identifying plants, everyone got to pick vegetables to take home to their families. Snap peas, [...]
Yale Day of Service in Koshland Park
Who would have dreamed the day would turn out so beautiful? Blue skies and no wind or oppressive heat! The perfect combination for a workday in Koshland Park and Garden. To make it even better, today, May 11, 2013, was the Yale Day of Service and many Yale volunteers came to help out, along with [...]
Join Us this Saturday-May 11, 2013—Yale Day of Service in Koshland Park
Join us this Saturday, May 11th for a Koshland Park and Garden Workday from 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. We will be joined by a great group of Alumni from Yale University and our volunteers from Starbucks and the neighborhood. There will be weeding, planting, mulching, sweeping, pruning, picking up trash and making the park [...]
Rosa Parks Workday and Caterpillar
A great turnout for our Rosa Parks Workday on Saturday, April 27, 2013. Over forty volunteers from Starbucks joined many parents and friends of the garden to do spring gardening and cleaning. Another highlight of the day was placing tiles on the growing caterpillar that graces the wall around the Lower Garden. These tiles were [...]
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