Thanks to a grant from the Department of Children, Youth and their Families (DCYF), CommunityGrows is honored to be working at the Edible Schoolyard at Hunters Point at the Willie Mays...
Tag: Environmental Education
Salad Day and Gardening at Rosa Parks
On September 2, 2015 Rosa Parks Elementary kicked off their school year with a planting in the garden and a salad day in the cafeteria. New CommunityGrows Garden Assistant Cha'Shay Woldridge,...
William Cobb Elementary School Garden Workday
Under a beautiful blue sky with billowing cumulus clouds, great volunteers came out to help with a workday at Dr. William L. Cobb Elementary School's garden on Saturday, April 11, 2015. A...
Science Night at Rosa Parks Elementary
On Friday evening, March 20, 2015 the Rosa Parks Elementary School Auditorium was filled with excitement as crowds of parents and friends got to view a wide range of science projects done by...
MagicZone and Decomposers!
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 our after-school youth from MagicZone came to Koshland Park for a lesson in decomposers. A decomposer is part of the food chain. When something dies, like a plant...
Haiku with Rosa Parks ExCEL and the SF Foundation
On February 9, 2015 the Rosa Parks ExCEL afterschool program got a visit from the San Francisco Foundation Environmental Initiative, lead by Francesca Vietor, Becky Weinberg and Tracy...
Magic Zone in Koshland Garden
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 Magic Zone youth joined us for their weekly afternoon class in Koshland Garden. After settling in our garden circle and doing a short quiet meditation,...
Rosa Parks Workday with CommunityGrows
On Saturday, September 13, 2014 a great workday was held at Rosa Parks Elementary School to prepare the two gardens for fall classes. Rosa Parks parents, Principal Paul Jacobsen, the PTA and...
Summer Fun Harvesting Potatoes!
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...
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...