Saturday, May 21st - Sites and Events

The May 21st SF Refresh Event will be in Bernal Heights, the Bay View and Visitacion Valley. Confirmed Garden Sights Include (full event calendar for the day at the bottom of the page):

Bayview Walking Trash Pick Up Event: Join community garden volunteers and other members of the neighborhood in picking up trash for your health and the health of the community. Learn more about picking up litter in San Francisco.

• 8am Gathering and Rally (meet at the mural on the 1700 block of Quesada just west of 3rd Street)


• 8:30-9:30am Walk and Trash Pick-up


• 9:30-10am Gathering, Celebration and Closing (meet at the mural on the 1700 block of Quesada just west of 3rd Street)

Hans Schiller Plaza at the Visitacion Valley Greenway Garden: (10am-2pm)Putting the spotlight on Jazz and local merchants, we will be hosting free jazz concerts and other activities in conjunction with the Visitacion Valley Merchants Association (VVMA). VVMA will also be hosting a sidewalk sale in the merchant district around the garden as a part of the city's Small Buisness Week. Featured activities include: , Jazzberry Patch and the "Gerry Grosz Jazz Kitchen."

• 9am Yoga (Flow Style) - Linda Leu


• Sidewalk Sale (10am-2pm)


• 11am Jazzbery Patch


• 11:40-11:55 Rock - Korean Marial Arts demonstration


• 12pm Mad & Eddie Duran "the first couple of instrumental jazz"


• 12:40-1pm Saman (Solo Uke)


• 1pm The Gerry Grosz Jazz Kitchen


• 1pm Yoga (Kripalu Tradition) - Erin Michelle

Alemany Farm: New garden volunteers are encouraged to take an orientation tour of the farm at the beginning of the workday. + Garden Volunteer hours: 12pm-5pm. Free whole body care activities will be held throughout the day, including accupressure, massage, art projects and music.

Other Gardens Open This Day:
The Free Farm: Eddy/Gough
+ Garden volunteer hours 10am-2pm

Garden For the Environment:
+ Open to visitors from dawn to dusk
+ Volunteer hours 10am-4pm

Alice Street Community Garden: at the end of the one-block Lapu-Lapu Street, off Harrison between Third and Fourth streets
+ Open dawn to dusk

Potrero Hill Community Garden, San Bruno Ave/20th Street, Potrero Hill
+ Open dawn to dusk

Fort Mason Community Garden, behind Administration Building, Fort Mason
+ Open dawn to dusk