194 Participate in the 9/25 SF Refresh Event

This past Sunday, we held our fifth SF Refresh event. Despite the rainy weather, we had 194 participants, primarily peers. At this event, nearly all of our activities were peer led, including: composting, harvesting, harp therapy, movement, mediation and other activities. To date, 1,429 individuals have participated in our SF Refresh events throughout the city at 8 different community garden sites. Our final event will be on October 15th and will be held at two peer maintained gardens in the Bayview, and two gardens in Hayes Valley (one of which is peer maintained).

Additional outreach opportunities for peers will be held throughout the rest of the year with garden parties following the upcoming Project Homeless Connect (PHC) events. These parties will increase the number of peers participating in our project, provide an opportunity for peers to participate in our green job training curriculum and help connect PHC participants with community gardens in the neighborhoods where they live. The schedule for these events are:

Oct 6th - Bayview Garden Party: Bayview Roots Garden (3rd/Palou)
Oct 7th- Central City Garden Party: Growing Home Community Garden (Octavia/Lily)
Nov 10th - Bayview Garden Party: Bayview Roots Garden(3rd/Palou)
Nov 11th - Central City Garden Party: Growing Home Community Garden (Octavia/Lily)
Dec 15th - Bayview Garden Party: Bayview Roots Garden(3rd/Palou)
Dec 16th - Central City Garden Party: Growing Home Community Garden (Octavia/Lily)

Some photos from the event are included below.
50 participants join us at the Growing Home Community garden, where all activities were peer led.

79 participants joined us at the Bayview Roots garden for lunch and peer led garden activities.

65 people participated in activities at the Hayes Valley Farm

One of the favorite activites was healing harp.

Interplay movement was also fun.