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Down-Home Workday in Koshland Park

We had a very friendly neighborhood workday this past Saturday. Many residents and families from Hayes Valley Apartments joined us to move a mountain of wood chip and transport native plants from the John Muir School front garden.

Some of the morning crew, including Freddie from the Recreation and Park Department and Megan Schufreider, Manager of Student Services at the California Academy of Sciences (tall blonde on the right).

Tulsi Pi and daughter Isabel Frazier and son.

Workday this Saturday, February 20, 2010

Holiday Wreath & Card Making-12.12.09

CommunityGrows organized a Wreath and Card Making Event, with local partners, including Community Partners United, Hayes Valley Association and Trash Mash Up on a rainy Saturday in December. We had over 45 participants including many residents from Hayes Valley Apartments and a great team of volunteers from BuildOn organization! Thank you for a great day! More photos will be up on Flicker in the new year!

Thanksgiving Event at John Muir Elementary School-November 21, 2009

CommmunityGrows joined many partners, including MoMagic and Community Partners United to celebrate Thanksgiving with the neighborhood at John Muir Elemetary School. Here are some photos from the event.


Ms. Welch, Nora Brereton and Ms. Brown:














Three Angels Dancing:

Our New Northern Station Captain, Ann Mannix and daughters Lauren and Kate:


















Camilla Dawkins and Liz Jackson Simpson:

Takaija Gardener and Maysha Jackson from the YMCA Beacon Center:

A CommunityGrows in San Franciscio

Check out Maureen Futtner's article in the San Francisco Examiner on
November 19, 2009:
A COMMUNITY GROWS IN SAN FRANCISCO

New Intern Meredith Bunyard and November Workday a Great Success!

CommunityGrows is very honored to have Meredith Bunyard, a wonderful intern from San Francisco State University helping us in the garden this semester. She is an Environmental Studies major, with a concentration in Social Justice and Sustainability. We love all the great energy and knowledge she has brought to the garden and our programs. Thank you Meredith!


NOVEMBER 14, 2009 KOSHLAND PARK AND GARDEN WORKDAY!:
Here are some photos from our November 14, 2009 Koshland Park and Garden Workday. We had 65 volunteers from many high schools, and colleges, including folks from Union Bank. Whole Foods provided boxes of delicious fruit. Noah's bagels and Starbuck's were also featured to run off the great refreshments. Thank you everyone!!














CREW FROM SONOMA STATE ALTERNATIVE BREAKS PROGRAM:













BALBOA HIGH SCHOOL CREW:














PLANTING THE HILLSIDE BY THE ENTRANCE:














GREAT FOOD:














HOLY NAMES SCHOOL 8TH GRADERS CREW:












STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL VISIT BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALLENE ZANGER AND HUSBAND ROB AND ANGIE CHEN AND FRIEND BEN:















WORKING IN THE GARDEN:













UC BERKELEY ALPHA PHI OMEGA FRATERNITY CREW:














NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE AREA #3, RECREATION AND PARK DEPARTMENT CREW OF GREAT GARDENERS:

October Fun

Our cameras were in the garden afterschool with the YMCA Beacon Kids who come twice a week. The lesson was worms and composting. Collecting worms and sifting compost. It was a most exciting time!




Then all of a sudden.... it was Halloween. We roasted marshmellows for s'mores at Hayes Valley South with the neighborhood groups and families. Lots of fun and great costumes!

New Herb Garden

Thanks to the dreams of Nora, Barbara and Arif, and the hard work of contractor Peter van der Sterre, we now have a beautiful seating area where our herb garden is planted. The seating is large enough to accommodate a class of John Muir School students and is in the sunniest part of the garden. This is especially good during the cold winter months. Thank you so much Peter, Lalo and Harold for all your great work on this major achievement to our garden!

NORA'S BACK!!

We are SO HAPPY to have Nora Brereton back in the garden and totally recovered from her hiking accident three months ago. WELCOME BACK! We really missed you! She is the brains behind our Programs and does an amazing job networking and building community. One of her first orders of business was to have a meeting with the Koshland Park community gardeners on September 19, 2009.













We have two new Garden Coordinators.
Zela Rowlands will be coordinating the gardeners who already have plots in the Koshland Garden.
























Arif Husain will be coordinating the potential gardeners on the waiting list for a plot in Koshland Garden.