While we weren’t gone long for summer break at the Edible Schoolyard, we were gone just long enough to come back and be welcomed by a bounty of mature summer crops - cucumbers, lush ears of...
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Tabling for SFUSD Science Teachers
On Thursday, August 11th CommunityGrows staff tabled for a lunch-time resource fair at Lincoln High School for San Francisco Unified School District SFUSD science teachers as part of a...
BEETS Host World Youth at Rosa Parks
On July 29, 2016 The Civic Leadership Institute (CLI) youth made their second year visit to CommunityGrows as part of their summer site at UC Berkeley. The Civic Leadership Institute (CLI)...
Lettuce Turnip For Justice!
Written by Melissa Tang, BEETS Program Manager
What exactly is food? If food doesn't nurture you as a person then it's really not food. Yet there's a lot of things being sold in...
Thank you, SFPUC!
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has partnered with the CommunityGrows for the third year in a row to support our BEETS Program! This year, the PUC is supporting us as we...
Cooking with Crystal at Willie Mays Clubhouse
“Can you see peace and quiet?”
This is the question that was posed by a visiting clubhouse member upon entering the Willie Mays Edible Schoolyard Garden for the first time this July....
Ella Hill Health Faire
On Saturday, August 6, 2016, CommunityGrows staff Jay Jordan and BEET Ivan Galdamez manned a table for the Ella Hill Hutch Health Faire and Backpack Giveaway. Hundreds of families lined up to...
National Night Out
On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 CommunityGrows joined many Western Addition groups to table for the community about their BEETS Program. Kelly ErnstFriedman, our Director of Programs, and Ivan...
CG establishes Work-Site Wellness Policy!
Cultivating health is important not just for the kids and families we serve, but it's vital for our staff as well. Thanks to support from Kaiser Permanente, CommunityGrows had the wonderful...
Join the BEETS! Applications now available
We're now accepting applications for the brand new, expanded BEETS program! From October to May, teens will learn job and life skills as they learn about the environment, teach kids, ...