Urban Sprouts believes everyone has the right to healthy food, quality education, beautiful outdoor environments & to earn a living wage.
Emergency Grocery Card Program
CalFresh benefits are delayed due to the federal government shutdown. To help buy food and reduce financial stress during this time, the City and our partner organizations are providing CalFresh households with a one-time prepaid grocery card. Learn more.
Urban Sprouts plants the seeds of social equity to build healthy and thriving neighborhoods in San Francisco. Across our five gardens and our network of community partners, we reach over 5000 people each year through our programs, services, and special projects:
We build supportive learning communities in English, Spanish, and Cantonese, for people of all ages, genders, and races.
We work with communities who have been systematically denied access to resources to remove barriers and create pathways to health and economic equity through garden-based education and experiences.
The Urban Sprouts Way
Urban Sprouts was established in 2004 on the research-proven foundation that beautiful and safe outdoor environments are the best conduits for healthy, economically thriving communities. We leverage our gardens as culturally responsive, interactive classrooms; welcoming places for meditation and physical activity; sources of fresh, nutritious food and as incubators for a 21st-century workforce that understands the importance of social justice and climate resilience.
Where We Work
Our programs are focused on individuals and families in San Francisco’s southeastern neighborhoods that face significant obstacles to economic, social and physical health including: the Excelsior, the Mission, Visitacion Valley, Bayview/Hunters Point, Mission Bay, Potrero Hill, Ingleside, Oceanview and Merced Heights.
As we hold space with our community, we acknowledge that we are on the unceded, traditional homeland of the Yelamu and Ramaytush Ohlone people who have stewarded this land for generations, and we pay tribute to indigenous elders past, present, and future.
OUR IMPACT
