On Friday, June 11th the BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) used their summer water conservation training to pay it forward to the youth in the Western Addition. The...
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Touring the PUC Building
On July 9, 2014 the BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens), a green-jobs training program of CommunityGrows, began their summer cohort with a tour of the Public Utilities...
Highlighting Ezekiel McCarter-Our Garden Assistant!
We would like to introduce Ezekiel (Ziek) McCarter,...
New Liberation Garden Visit
On Thursday July 3, 2014 CommunityGrows staff went to visit Amy Farah Weiss, founder of Neighbors Developing Divisadero [Street] and the re-activator/manager of New Liberation Community Garden at...
BEETS Clean-Up Good!
On Saturday, June 28, 2014 the BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) did a garden maintenance day at the African American Arts and Culture Center. This garden along the...
Cooking Classes in Hayes Valley Apts Begin
Cooking Classes began at Hayes Valley Apartments on Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Under the expert instruction of Adrian Gaino and Ezekiel McCarter, both CommunityGrows staff, the afternoon class put...
BEETS Go Camping
On Tuesday and Wednesday, June 17-18, 2014 the summer BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) went to the Presidio for a great experience of camping overnight. As a kick-off...
Green Gulch Farm with Booker T. and Up-on-Top Summer Youth
On Thursday, June 12, 2014, CommunityGrows took two groups of youth from Booker T. Washington Community Service Center and Up-on-Top Summer Program to Green Gulch Farm. It was a day out of the...
Summer BEETS Begin!
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 thirteen teens began their summer internship with the CommunityGrows BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens). Seven returning youth [Windy Pun,...
Cooking Matters with 18 Reasons
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, some of our CommunityGrows staff went to visit the first day of a six-week summer program at Marshall Elementary School in San Francisco sponsored by 18 Reasons and...