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March 8th San Francisco's Hayes Valley and
Western Addition neighborhoods (District 5)
celebrated Arbor Day with the Community Clean
Team. Each month DPW's Community Clean Team
services a different district, performing
clean-up and
improvement of parks and schools. San Francisco
Parks Trust is a proud Clean Team partner-we
specialize in greening with the Street Parks
program. Arbor Day activities included a green
resource fair (complete with rides on the cherry
picker), a tree pruning demonstration,
plantings at
Koshland Park and Elk Glen Lake in Golden Gate
Park, and more!
In just 4 hours volunteers accomplished quite
a bit!
Collectively, volunteers removed 9,100 lbs.
of debris,
planted 124 shrubs and trees, and cleaned 142
tree
basins. They also removed graffiti from 159
structures, and spread
4 cubic yards of wood chips!
More about Community Clean
Team
Green
resources from SFGro
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Q. What can I do to add some green to my
neighborhood?
A. Remove some cement and start a sidewalk
garden!
A sidewalk garden provides permeable
landscaping,
allowing water and air to penetrate the soil. The
process is extremely valuable to the health
of cities,
and is easy to do. The basic steps are listed
here, but
SFPT
and our
Park Partner, Plant*SF
have
created a
toolkit with tips and vital
contact
information to help simplify the process.
Step 1: Permits - To remove part of the
sidewalk and create a garden by your home or
business you must first submit a sidewalk landscape permit
application.
Review the sidewalk landscaping information sheet and guidelines
(from DPW).
For help in filling out your application,
download the sidewalk
landscape permit application
walkthrough (from Plant*SF and
SFPT).
Step 2: Developing a plan
- To complete your permit application you
must submit
a drawing of your new garden and list the
plants that
you propose to use. You may complete the drawing
yourself or hire an architect or landscape
designer to
help you.
See recommended plant list for ideas.
Use design templates to
help plan your new garden
Step 3: Meetings and inspections
- Some meetings and inspections are required
by the
City in order to complete the process. These
requirements are detailed in the sidewalk
landscaping information sheet and guidelines
(from DPW).
Step 4: Dig in- Once your paperwork is
submitted and your permit is approved you're
ready to
dig in.
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Come celebrate Earth Day with Street Parks
Youth, Dep
artment of Public Works, Alemany Farm
and
the Student
Conservation
Association. We'll be gardening and
getting dirty
at two sites - pick your favorite and join
us!
Date: Saturday, April 19th
Time: 10AM - 2PM
Location: Sunglow Steps, meet at Silver
Street and
Oxford (map)
Activity: Join us to garden and beautify this
budding
street park.
Date: Saturday, April 19th
Time: 10AM - 3PM
Location: Alemany Farm, Alemany Boulevard
just east
of Ellsworth Street (map)
Activity: Help us set up Alemany Farm's new
plant
nursery and "spring clean" the city's only
urban farm.
Street Parks Youth (we call it SPY for short)
meets
once a month for a fun day of gardening,
community
service, and FREE LUNCH! You can drop in for
just
one gardening day or commit to four and become a
SPY member. Call 415-750-5110 or email to RSVP.
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JOBS/INTERNSHIP
YOUTH
Interested in green job internships? BEET
Rangers is
now recruiting youth ages 14-19 living in the
Western
Addition of San Francisco. Earn $1000 or more
through 8-months of service. To request an
application visit gardenkids
@wildmail.com or hvnparks@hot
mail.com
Want to work as an Explainer? Explainers are
students from the Bay Area who come together to
participate in a teaching and learning
experience at
the Exploratorium- a museum of science, art, and
human perception. For an interview, please
call (415)
563-7337 and visit the
Exploratorium Online for more
information.
Youth Making a Change (YMAC) is
Coleman Advocates' nationally recognized
youth organizing project. YMAC is seeking a
part-time
campus organizer to help support base building,
campaign work, and more. $10 -$12 an hour DOE.
Email
or fax resume and cover letter to
415-239-0584
Attn: Pecolia Manigo.
ADULTS
If you'd like to support young environmental
leaders,
consider interning with the New Leaders
Initiative, a
project of The Earth Island Institute. Help recruit talented
emerging
environmental leaders for the Brower Youth
Award.
You will help Earth Island, reach out via
phone and
email for youth entries,
and help the organization plan an exciting
mix of
activities for the 2008 Award recipients. In
addition,
you will become familiar with the Bay Area
environmental movement and empower youth making
a difference! Send a resume and short cover
letter to
Sharon Smith at mbya@earthisland.org.
Help The Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands
Stewardship Council (Stewardship Council)
reach its
goals to ensure that over 140,000 acres of
pristine
watershed lands are conserved for the public
good
through the Land Conservation Program,
and to invest in outdoor programs that serve
California's young people through the Youth Investment Program.
The
intern will contribute to the daily
operations of the
office and will provide support for the Youth
Investment
and Land Conservation Programs. Interested
candidates may apply by submission of a cover
letter
and resume to: jobs@ste
wardshipcouncil.org,
EVENTS
April 2 - Garden for the Environment
fundraiser party @ Elixir Bar, (map) begins
9 PM Click here to
view the e-vite
April 8 - Volunteer Training to Lead
Children's
Walks @ San Francisco Botanical Garden (map)
9AM - 12:30PM. Cost: $75 fee, some scholarships
available. For information & registration
call (415) 661-
1316 ext. 31
April 12 - Bookmaking with recycled
materials
@ the Ecology
Center 10 AM - 1 PM. Cost: $15 general,
$10
Ecology Center members, no one turned away
for lack
of funds
April 19 - SPY Gardening Day @ Alemany
Farm (map)
10 AM - 3 PM
April 19 - SPY Gardening Day @ Sunglow
Steps (map)
10 AM - 2 PM
April 27 - Support Friends
of the
Urban Forest. San Francisco Grow
benefit, 5:30
PM - 8:30
PM For more information, contact Ryan Teller
at 415-
561-6890 ext. 104 or email ryan@fuf.net
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EVENTS
April 19 - SPY Gardening Day @ Alemany
Farm (map)
10 AM - 3 PM
April 19 - SPY Gardening Day @ Sunglow
Steps (map)
10 AM - 2 PM
Shawn Case
Street Park Gardener
It is hard to believe that Shawn Case started
working
on the South Franconia Steps less than a year
ago.
He remembers that the patch of land in his
Bernal
Heights neighborhood was over grown and out of
control. When he decided to head up the
project of
sprucing up the spot, a neighbor recommended
that
he contact Department of Public Works (DPW) and SFPT's Street Parks program The rest is
history.
Today, the
South Franconia Steps is a beautiful street
park, and
well on the way to becoming a community
treasure.
Sean worked with SFPT for help in organizing the
project, securing volunteers, utilizing city
resources
through DPW, and connecting to local
businesses like
Flora Grubb Gardens who provided plants for the
project.
Shawn's personal work as an environmental
educator
made him the ideal host for youth volunteers
from
YES!, SFPT's summer camp program. YES!
volunteers returned several times over the
summer to
remove invasive plants and to establish
native plant
species in the garden.
According to Shawn, DPW's Bureau of Urban
Forestry
(BUF) was an important part of the process.
When
neighbors and volunteers assembled for a Street
Parks volunteer day in July, DPW workers
provided
specialized skill and supervision, making
Shawn's
project much more manageable. BUF stepped in to
provide wood chips, green waste removal and
skilled
laborers to remove some damaged tree parts and
trim back some problem pampas grass.
Host Street
Parks
volunteers at your garden site, and get the
help you
need!
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