Garden for the Environment maintains a nationally acclaimed one-acre urban demonstration garden, founded in 1990. The land where the garden is located has not, since the founding of the city of San Francisco, housed a permanent building. The land was originally owned by the Spring Valley Water Company (the parent company of the SF Water Department). The SF Public Utilities Commission owns the land and allows the Garden for the Environment to use the land by a special permit.

Today the site serves as San Francisco's only organically maintained public demonstration garden, focusing on small-scale urban ecological food production, organic gardening, low water-use landscaping and urban compost systems. Garden for the Environment offers free or low-cost public workshops nearly every weekend of the year.

The Garden is located in San Francisco on 7th Avenue at Lawton Street.
Google Map. 7th Ave & Lawton St, San Francisco, CA 94122

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Garden for the Environment
Phone (415) 731-5627
Fax (415) 731-5607
Email: info@gardenfortheenvironment.org

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