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...
Category: Partners
BEETS Help Serve Up Thanksgiving at John Muir School
On Saturday, November 23, 2013, CommunityGrows participated with many neighborhood partners to offer Thanksgiving to the Community at John Muir Elementary School. The BEETS (Band of...
BEETS Host Jobs Panel
On Tuesday November 5, 2013 the CommunityGrows BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) hosted a panel of workers from the community. On the panel were Francee Covington, a...
National Night Out-Great Party!
How much do we love our neighborhood in the Western Addition of San Francisco? Quite a lot by the show of friends and partners who came out on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 for National Night Out...
Umm Umm Good!
Friday, August 2,2013 CommunityGrows staff Adrian Gaino, assisted by volunteer Akiko Fujii and Jah'Torri Bettis of the African American Arts and Culture Center (AAACC) lead a group of enthusiastic...
Oh! What Big Eyes You Have!
The Magic Zone kids (from our partner Mo'Magic's summer program) came to get a lesson offered by CommunityGrows in bug identification on Monday, July 22, 2013 in Koshland Garden. They started out...
Bi-Rite Market hosts the BEETS!
On Tuesday, July 16, 2013, the BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) got a fantastic tour of Bi-Rite Market lead by Shakirah Simley. Shakirah is the communications/outreach...
Composting and Cleaning Supplies
On Friday, June 28, 2013 the Buchanan YMCA youth got a lesson in composting and a reward afterwards of great smelling cleaners and hand soaps from Mrs. Meyer's. Megan Sweeney, marketing...
Berkeley’s Edible Schoolyard hosts CommunityGrows
Written by Adrian Almquist, CommunityGrows Garden Educator
Photos from Edible Schoolyard past visit, as none were taken on the day of this event.
On Thursday, May 2, 2013, the CommunityGrows...