Another great Salad Day at John Muir School, thanks to Kaiser-Permanente and Gus' Market on Harrison Street. We were honored to get organic greens, fuji apples, carrots, cucumbers and peppers....
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Gateway High Service Day in Koshland Garden
On Friday, September 30th, Gateway High School joined CommunityGrows staff Melissa Tang and BEETS intern Ivan Gladamez in Koshland Garden for a volunteer Day of Service. These 15 youth and...
Ugly Vegetables!
"What makes this carrot prettier than that one?"
"Believe it or not, this carrot tastes exactly the same as that one!"
“That’s a pickle? But why is it so… white?” Oh I get...
Salad Days at John Muir
Thanks to a grant from Kaiser-Permanente Community Benefit Program, CommunityGrows is able to continue offering Salad Days at John Muir School. With a great donation of organic greens, carrots...
The Chickens Have Arrived!
Saturday, September 10, 2016 was an exciting day at Rosa Parks Elementary. As usual, this workday was a blowout fantastic event with so many families and friends. It was also the exciting...
A Taste of Summer
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...
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....