from the garden

Archive for August, 2009

Thank You University of San Francisco

We’d like to give a big shout out to the members of the USF Foreward Summer Bridge Program. These incoming freshmen spent the afternoon with us at June Jordan and were a tremendous help. In just a few hours they installed all the beds for the Farmer-in-Residence program and mulched the existing garden!! We greatly [...]

August 20, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Log Cabin Ranch

This summer, through a partnership with the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department, we began installing our 7th school garden. Our new site is located on the grounds of the Log Cabin Ranch in La Honda; this residential treatment and rehabilitation facility for adjudicated young men is located on over 250 acres about 45 miles south [...]

August 17, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

How Your Gift will Make a Difference

This year, our movement is growing because the need for school and home gardens is greater than ever. Hit by economic recession, families face hunger, lack of access to healthy food, public schools struggling with less funding than ever, and a food system in crisis from oil dependence and outbreaks of disease. We’ve come to [...]

August 15, 2009   Posted in: fundraising  Comments Closed

Accomplishments 2008-2009

Summer is a great time to reflect on the past school year, all that we’ve accomplished and the challenges to come in the year ahead. Please follow this link to read up on all that we’ve accomplished during the 2008-2009 school year! Still to come, we will post a report of all the exciting evaluation [...]

August 6, 2009   Posted in: evaluation  Comments Closed