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Please Join Us!!

Urban Sprouts Happy Hour July 7th, 2010 5:30pm-8:00pm Please join us for a fabulous fun-filled evening to meet and mingle with fellow members of our community and support Urban Sprouts’ efforts for a comprehensive garden-based education program in schools in San Francisco’s under-served neighborhoods. Enjoy: • Happy Hour Priced Cocktails and Appetizers • A chance to win Jack Johnson concert tickets [...]

June 21, 2010   Posted in: event, fundraising, volunteer  Comments Closed

Scarecrows and sauerkraut

At June Jordan School for Equity, we are battling urban wildlife in a quest to get our spring garden established. Snails, birds, and gophers have forced us to use row cover to shield sprouting seeds, wire cages to protect seedlings, and recycled CDs and plastic bags as urban scarecrows. Our tactics are meeting with some [...]

March 25, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized, edible, nutrition, school garden, volunteer  2 Comments

Garden Work Days

We hosted a fabulous group of volunteers yesterday from the Presidio Graduate School up at the June Jordan garden.  Their students built a new worm box, cleaned the chicken coop, readied the family garden for planting, and weeded the student garden.  They even . . .

February 1, 2010   Posted in: event, school garden, volunteer  Comments Closed

Thank You Volunteers & Donors

To all of this fall’s volunteers and donors – you made our successful work possible this semester! Thank you! The full list of names:

January 26, 2010   Posted in: fundraising, volunteer  Comments Closed

Outreach Committee Meeting- First Meeting 12/8 6:00pm

Help grow the school gardens movement!

We are looking for members to join our Outreach Committee. These individuals will work alongside our staff to represent Urban Sprouts at partner school events, community fairs, farmers markets, and other city-wide events.

December 6, 2009   Posted in: volunteer  Comments Closed

Log Cabin Work Day

We are hosting our first garden work party at our newest site, Log Cabin Ranch.
Come out and help!

December 2, 2009   Posted in: volunteer  One Comment

Amazing Volunteer Week

Last week was a busy week in the gardens as we hosted 3 large group events. Employees and students from Wells Fargo, Haas School of Business, and Blueprint Research & Design performed almost 100 hours of volunteer labor as we built worm bins and compost bins, dug new beds, and completed some general garden work.

November 23, 2009   Posted in: compost, school garden, volunteer  Comments Closed