Summer classes have officially ended, and our garden educators spent 6 weeks teaching students from kindergarten through 6th grade about gardening and cooking skills. It was fun, challenging, and therapeutic.
Category: Gardens
From a Seed to a Community
I joined BEETs on a reference by my teacher. I joined for the sole reason on how they interacted with nature. It was something I had grown interested in, something I wanted to explore. Nature was depleting every single day, and my anxiety over climate change had really pushed me to the job.
Breaking News: Kids actually love salad!
This December, Salad Day has made a comeback into the gardens at Rosa Parks Elementary and for the first time ever at Leonard Flynn Elementary in San Francisco. Vegetables that were...
Black Community Heroes
Celebrating Black Visionaries
In community we can create what’s bigger and more beautiful than ourselves as individuals. With this in mind, we are partnered with 20 schools and...
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...
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...
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...
Koshland Park and Garden Workday-Saturday, September 17th
Please join us for a great day outdoors in the fresh air, getting some exercise and making our home based park and garden shine. We will be weeding, planting, sweeping, pruning, and picking up...
BEETS build new garden at the African American Arts and Culture Complex
On July 21st and July 26th the BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) built a garden at the African American Arts and Culture Complex on Fulton Street. Everyone had a sense...
After-School Youth Grow Garden at Booker T. Washington Center
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The University of San Francisco Interns have been hard at work getting the Booker T. Washington garden together for the after-school students to enjoy. (See...