Summer in San Francisco is different from almost everywhere else. Cool and foggy, highs in the 60s, and patches of sun in-and-out of the day. A great air-conditioned City to balance the scorching...
Category: Rosa Parks Elementary School
Rad Radishes with Ezekiel
On Friday, July 19,2013 Ezekiel McCarter, our Rosa Parks Assistant Gardener, led the YMCA Buchanan kids in a lesson on preparing soil and planting radishes. Attendance is always a great way to...
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...
Mrs. Meyer’s comes to Rosa Parks!
The big lime green Mrs. Meyer's van showed up at Rosa Parks Elementary School on Friday, June 14th, and out popped four ambassadors to help with our CommunityGrows Summer Science Program. They...
Summer Science with the Buchanan YMCA
On Monday, June 10th, the staff of CommunityGrows began their summer science program with Buchanan YMCA youth at Rosa Parks Elementary School. Although it was 10 AM in the morning, everyone was...
Mrs. Jefferson’s Kindergarden at Rosa Parks
Who could ask for a better day? Today, May 20, 2013 the Kinder-gardener's in Ms. Jefferson's class got a treat! Out to the garden in the morning to start the week at Rosa Parks! After a lesson...
Rosa Parks Workday and Caterpillar
A great turnout for our Rosa Parks Workday on Saturday, April 27, 2013. Over forty volunteers from Starbucks joined many parents and friends of the garden to do spring gardening and cleaning....
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...
Rosa Parks BBQ Fun!
Saturday, September 22, 2012 was a fun back-to-school BBQ for families and friends of Rosa Parks Elementary School. Our BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) helped out by...
Starbucks and Washington HS joins Rosa Parks Workday!
On Saturday, September 8th, 2012, Starbucks employees, and teens from Washington High School came out to help CommunityGrows get Rosa Parks Elementary School gardens ready for the fall semester. ...