Workdays
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seed Swap with Koshland Gardeners
Tuesday evening April 16, 2013 Koshland garden members came together to swap seeds, show off their plots, ask questions and enjoy snacks and refreshments. Nora Brereton, Director of Programs for CommunityGrows, offered information about bugs and pests and how to take care of plantings. She shared a story about the youth from John Muir School [...]
Koshland Garden Workday and much more…
On Saturday, March 16th, we had a great workday in Koshland Garden. CommunityGrows staff Adrian Almquist, Nora Brereton, Ezekiel McCarter and Barbara Wenger were joined by our fantastic Starbucks partners who came out in force and brought refreshments as well. Julien Lundh, one of our BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) pitched in, [...]
Workday at Rosa Parks with Stuart Hall School
Rosa Parks Elementary School was visited by a wonderful group of seventeen young men from Stuart Hall High School on Friday, March 8, 2013. Stuart Hall is a college-preparatory high school located in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights district. Lead by a team of counselors, including Laurie Pomeranz and Amelia Sitter, the youth helped with the [...]
Redwood Trust and Starbucks Shine!
CommunityGrows is very fortunate to have the support of the Redwood Trust Employee Foundation, a branch of the Marin Community Foundation, and the Starbucks Foundation. On Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 both groups brought out employees to work with the BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) and community gardeners in Koshland Garden. We painted [...]
BEETS Spruce Up the AIDS Memorial Grove
Our CommunityGrows Fall 2012 BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) volunteered on Saturday, October 20th, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM at the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. The National AIDS Memorial Grove is a dedicated space in the national landscape where millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by [...]
John Muir Schoolyard gets a Makeover!
Friday, October 19th, 2012 was a great milestone for John Muir Elementary School and CommunityGrows. John Muir School was CommunityGrows’ (formerly Hayes Valley Neighborhood Parks Group) first partner back in 1994 when we started teaching the students science in Koshland Park and Garden a half block away. We have maintained a presence in the school [...]
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