The Garden for the Environment (GFE) is maintained by dedicated staff gardeners, volunteers, and students. Garden for the Environment is under the fiscal sponsorship of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council.

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Blair Randall
Director, blair@gardenfortheenvironment.org
(415) 731-5627

Blair has taught in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past five years and holds a certificate in Ecological Horticulture from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to the GFE, Blair served as a CoDirector of Pond gallery, taught Farm and Garden classes at Children's Day School and worked impossible clay soils as Garden Manager at the Nueva School. In 2006 he began managing the Garden for the Environment, an educational demonstration garden, and teaching urban sustainable agriculture classes including the Gardening & Composting Educator Training Program.

Suzi Palladino
Program Manager, suzi@gardenfortheenvironment.org
(415) 731-5627

Suzi made her way from small-town North Carolina into the city lights of San Francisco in January of 2005. After spending several months traveling and working on organic farms in New Zealand, Suzi landed in SF in January 2005 ready to plunge into the urban sustainable agriculture movement of the Bay Area. She has a long history of working with youth and has a deep-rooted passion for ecological sustainability, environmental stewardship and food justice activism. Prior to the GFE, Suzi spent her days as an Environmental Educator for a local public elementary school as well as a Garden Educator for the Koshland Park Community Learning Garden of the Hayes Valley/Western Addition. Since the Summer of 2006, she has been managing the school programs at the Garden for the Environment. Suzi helps maintain the garden, manages the Compost Education Center and teaches urban sustainable agriculture classes including the Gardening and Composting Educator Training Program.

Nicole Brisebois
Youth Educator, nicole@gardenfortheenvironment.org
(415) 731-5627

Back in the city after a five-year stint on Catalina Island as the garden coordinator in an educational vegetable garden, Nicole brings her enthusiasm for composting and youth gardening to gfe. Originally inspired by her internship at San Francisco’s Department of the Environment, she created and designed an outreach project for Catalina’s offseason to continue to motivate youth to garden in their home communities along California’s coast on the sustainable living bike tour. When she is not growing and eating vegetables, you might find her bike touring and commuting, teaching her cooking class or enjoying the park.

Hilary Gordon
Perennial Plants Collection Manager

Hilary Gordon is Perennial Plants Collection Manager at the GFE. A life-long gardener, trained at the City College Horticulture program, she has worked as a professional landscape gardener from 1984 until the present. Meet her in the garden Wednesdays 10-2 and Saturdays 10-4.