About Us

Our Gardens & Projects

Current Partners

African American Arts and Culture Complex

African American Art and Culture Complex Garden

Location: 762 Fulton St.

Built by CommunityGrows and BEETS teens in 2010
Features drought-tolerant and native plants
Serves neighborhood as a pollinator garden

Booker T. Community Center Garden

Location: 800 Presidio Ave.

Managed by CommunityGrows since 2010
Offers environmental education program and cooking classes for youth from Booker T.
Features chickens, strawberries, fruits trees and vegetable beds

Ella Hill Hutch Community Center

Location: 1050 McAllister St.

Teach weekly after-school nutrition and cooking classes to teens.
The center is named after former supervisor Ella Hill Hutch, the first African American woman elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Offers youth programming and events in their community building.

Faces SF

Faces SF Garden and Kitchen

Location: 100 Whitney Young Cir

Weekly after-school garden education and cooking classes.
FACES SF provides critical assistance to low income families citywide, with a focus in the Haight Ashbury, Western Addition, Visitacion Valley, and Bayview Hunters Point neighborhoods in the following areas: early childhood development, workforce training, school age enrichment programs, and family support services.

Koshland Community Learning Garden

Location: in Koshland Park, Page and Buchanan

CommunityGrows’ flagship site since 1994
Our programs teach over 150 youth each weekat Koshland Garden
Offers environmental education program for students from John Muir Elementary School
Features hillside orchard, berry patches, and memorial shade garden

Rosa Parks Elementary School Gardens

Rosa Parks Elementary School Garden

Location: 1501 O’Farrell St.

Managed by CommunityGrows since 2008
Offers environmental education program for students from Rosa Parks Elementary School
Holds monthly school-wide Salad Days
Serves 400+ students annually
Provides instructional garden plots for each teacher
Home to three beloved egg-laying chickens: Luigi, Louise and Forty-Niner

Willie Mays Boys and Girls Club at Hunters Point: Garden and Kitchen

Location: 195 Kiska Rd.

In the fall of 2015 we began teaching garden and environmental education classes to youth in their awesome garden– the first Edible Schoolyard in San Francisco!
Utilizing vegetables, fruits and herbs from the garden, we will begin teaching cooking classes in their demonstration kitchen in January 2016

Past Partners

Alemany Farm

Location: 700 Alemany Blvd.

San Francisco’s only working farm!
4 acres of edible fruits and vegetables
We teach weekly environmental education classes with our partners, Vision Academy

Cobb Elementary School Garden

Location: 2725 California St.

Managed by CommunityGrows since 2012
Offers environmental education program for youth from the ExCEL AFter-School Program at Cobb Elementary School
Grows collards, broccoli, beans, mustard and more!

Hayward Rec Connect Garden and Kitchen

Location: at Hayward Rec Center, Golden Gate and Laguna

Built and designed by CommunityGrows and BEETS in 2011
Features unique geometric design with pentagon-shaped garden bed
Seed to Mouth cooking classes offered at Hayward Rec Connect

Jewish Community High School Garden

Location: 1835 Ellis St.

Begin maintaining and teaching in the garden in 2014
Offers environmental education program for youth from the Up on Top
Kids love digging for worms in the raised beds!
Currently UNDER CONSTRUCTION

New Liberation Garden

Location: corner of Divisadero and Eddy

Garden programs launched in the June 2015
Stewarded in partnership with USF Environmental Studies Program
Offers environmental education program for youth from the Booker T. Washington Community School
Features a medicinal herb and native species garden!

Plaza East Housing: Community Kitchen

Location: 1300 Buchanan St.

Began teaching bi-monthly Seed to Mouth cooking classes in 2015
Classes are for kids and families!
Healthy recipes include fresh and local vegetables, whole grains and love

Western Addition Peace Wall

Location: around Koshland Park, Page and Buchanan

Created by CcommunityGrows in 2007
800+ tiles made by neighborhood youth and residents
Represents what peace means to each individual artist

Want to know more about the organizations we work with? Check out our Partners page!

Come visit the Koshland Park & Garden anytime to volunteer or for special community events. Bring along a friend or your family with you if you come. The more the merrier!

Learn more about our impact!
— CommunityGrows 2014 Annual Report
— CommunityGrows 2013 Annual Report

A Koshland Community Gardener in training.