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Our mission is to cultivate healthy youth through growing gardens in low-income, diverse communities.

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CommunityGrows

CommunityGrows

Our mission is to cultivate healthy youth through growing gardens in low-income, diverse communities.

  • About
    • Mission, Vision, & Values
    • History
    • Staff & Advisory Board
    • Partners
  • Our Work
    • Seed to Mouth
    • Environmental Education
    • BEETs
  • Our Impact
  • What’s Happening
    • Events
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  • Join
    • Join Our Team
    • Individual Volunteer Opportunities
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Category: Farms

Growing Power Conference-Milwaukee

November 13, 2014

On November 7-9, 2014 Adrian Almquist, our CommunityGrows Garden Programs Manager, attended the Growing Power Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme was Urban and Small Farms...

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Summer Fun Harvesting Potatoes!

August 3, 2014

by Adrian Almquist, CommunityGrows Garden Programs Manager

Photo by Donn DeAngelo
On Tuesday, July 29, 2014, CommunityGrows took youth from the African American Arts and Culture...

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Studying Watersheds in the Gulch

July 20, 2014

On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 CommunityGrows staff took two summer partner groups to Green Gulch Farm. The Western Addition Beacon and the Buchanan YMCA. Our BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated...

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Green Gulch Farm with Booker T. and Up-on-Top Summer Youth

June 14, 2014

On Thursday, June 12, 2014, CommunityGrows took two groups of youth from Booker T. Washington Community Service Center and Up-on-Top Summer Program to Green Gulch Farm. It was a day out of the...

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Civic Center Farmers’ Market with the BEETS

October 25, 2013

On a cold Wednesday afternoon, October 23, 2013 ten of the Fall BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) met up with Melissa Tang to explore the Civic Center Farmers Market in...

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Fields of Greens and Flowers

July 27, 2013

Two lucky groups of youth from CommunityGrows partners, Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, and the Village Project, got to take a bus out of the City to the fog shrouded hills and...

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Summer Science Begins with Trips to Green Gulch Farm

July 4, 2012

The summer is a busy time for CommunityGrows, working with twelve partner groups, taking their youth to our learning gardens and on field trips. We started the fun on June 22, 2012 with a trip to...

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Summer Trip to Green Gulch Farm

August 8, 2011

On Thursday, August 4,2011 the BEETS (band of environmentally educated and employable teens) joined the youth from Booker T. Washington Community Service Center for a trip to Green Gulch Farm in...

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Alemany Farm with Buchanan YMCA

August 18, 2010

On Friday, July 30th CommunityGrows lead a field trip for the Buchanan YMCA to Alemany Farm in San Francisco.  Alemany Farm is a 4.5 acre working organic farm in southeastern San Francisco....

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Prince Hall to Green Gulch Farm

August 17, 2010

On Friday July 26, 2010 CommunityGrows organized a second summer field trip to Green Gulch Farm, thanks to our partnership with Mo'Magic and Prince Hall Learning Center on Fillmore Street. ...

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