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.

Join Us on September 25 for SF Refresh!

On Sunday, September 25, we are thrilled to build on the success of the last four SF Refresh events that brought over 1,000 San Franciscans together in community garden spaces for free whole body care.

Here is a sampling of what you can expect and how you can get involved! (Locations Below).

10:00 AM Open Cathedral (Free Farm)
12:00 PM Sharing a Free Meal (Hayes Valley Farm, Bayview Roots Garden)
12:00 PM Healing Harp (Hayes Valley)
12:00 PM Vespertine Orchestra (Bayview Roots)
12:00 PM Garden skillshares (Growing Home Community Garden)
12:30 PM Container Gardening skillshare (Bayview Roots)
12:30 PM Interplay workshop (Hayes Valley)
12:30 PM Yoga (Growing Home)
1:00 PM Vespertine Orchestra (Bayview Roots)
1:00 PM Garden skillshares (Growing Home)
1:30 PM Yoga (Hayes Valley)
1:30 PM Forgiveness Letters (Bayview Roots)
1:30 PM Worms! Gardening skillshare (Bayview Roots)
2:00 PM Medical Qi Gong (Hayes Valley)
2:00 PM Composting skillshare (Bayview Roots)
2:00 PM Garden skillshares (Growing Home)
2:30 PM Worms! Gardening skillshare (Bayview Roots)
2:30 PM Yoga (Growing Home)
3:00 PM Pocket Gardening skillshare (Bayview Roots)
3:00 PM Garden skillshares (Growing Home)
3:33 PM Meditation (Bayview Roots)
4:00 PM Garden skillshares (Growing Home)

Locations:
Free Farm (Eddy/Gough)
Hayes Valley Farm (Fell/Laguna)
Growing Home Community Garden (Octavia/Lily)
Bayview Roots (3rd/Palou)

To learn more, visit the SF Refresh blog.

Do you have a skill to share? Join us at SF Refresh!

Contact us at SFRefresh@gmail.com to contribute an activity on September 25th!

Save the Date for our final SF Refresh event on Sat., 10/15

Sunday, September 25th - Sites & Events

Join us in the Bayview and Hayes Valley at:

The Free Farm: Eddy/Gough

• 10am: Open Cathedral - St. Paulus Lutheran Church

Hayes Valley Farm: 450 Laguna Street (off Fell)

• 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Garden Open to Visitors


• 1:00 pm: Volunteer Orientation


• 1:00 pm and 3:00pm: Site Tours

Learn and Participate in the Following Confirmed Activities: Lunch, Medicinal Qi Gong, Yoga, Interplay, Art and Garden Skill Shares.

Bayview Roots Garden: 3rd/Palou

• 12pm-4pm: Lunch, Music, Meditation and Garden Skills


• Garden Skill Shares

Learn and Participate in the Following Confirmed Activities: Lunch, Container Gardening, and other Garden Skill Shares

Growing Home Community Garden: Octavia/Lily

• 12pm - 3pm: Garden Skill Shares

Additional Garden sites with regular hours on this day:
Garden For the Environment:
+ Open dawn to dusk

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