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...
Category: Summer Science
Studying Watersheds in the Gulch
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...
Cooking Classes in Hayes Valley Apts Begin
Cooking Classes began at Hayes Valley Apartments on Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Under the expert instruction of Adrian Gaino and Ezekiel McCarter, both CommunityGrows staff, the afternoon class put...
Green Gulch Farm with Booker T. and Up-on-Top Summer Youth
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...
Summer BEETS Begin!
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 thirteen teens began their summer internship with the CommunityGrows BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens). Seven returning youth [Windy Pun,...
Cooking Matters with 18 Reasons
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, some of our CommunityGrows staff went to visit the first day of a six-week summer program at Marshall Elementary School in San Francisco sponsored by 18 Reasons and...
Volunteer with the BEETS this Summer!
CommunityGrows is recruiting a volunteer to assist with the BEETS Program (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens). The summer session runs from June 10-August 7, 2014.
Please...
Umm Umm Good!
Friday, August 2,2013 CommunityGrows staff Adrian Gaino, assisted by volunteer Akiko Fujii and Jah'Torri Bettis of the African American Arts and Culture Center (AAACC) lead a group of enthusiastic...
Give it Up for Calendula!
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...
Fields of Greens and Flowers
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...