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WORKSHOPS

Learn new skills & build community

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Our workshops, taught by local experts, will teach you to use less water, cultivate healthy soil, create biodiversity in your backyard or community garden plot, and much more.

We teach 50+ workshops each year in our 1/2 acre teaching garden and outdoor classrooms. There’s something for everyone looking to get their hands dirty and nurture their environment and well-being.

We offer this fun and hands on workshop for FREE each month!

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Learn what grows year round in the Bay Area and how to care for your crops. Offered each month!

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3-part intro to designing and maintaining a regenerative garden. Offered each Spring, Summer and Fall.

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Learn the basics of starting a backyard hive. This workshop is offered about four times each year.

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“Garden for the Environment is fulfilling and exceeding the vision of its founders, becoming an environmental center where San Franciscans of all ages can obtain a solid education in gardening and composting.”

— Pam Peirce, Author, Golden Gate Gardening

A woman wearing a dark jacket and glasses demonstrates a plant to a seated and standing group of diverse adults outdoors with trees and a wooden fence in the background.
A group of chickens behind a wire fence, with a person’s arm visible on the right side.
Smiling woman holding a red cutout waffle-shaped frame and a speech bubble sign that reads "I love composting". She is outdoors in a garden area with plants and gardening supplies in the background.
A group of people attending an outdoor lecture or workshop, seated on wooden stepped benches in a garden area with trees and plants, listening to a woman speaking near a table covered with a blue cloth, flowers, and various items.
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FAQs

  • Classes are held outside in our teaching garden. You should bring:

    • Your own gardening gloves

    • Hat, sunscreen, water bottle

    • Comfortable closed toed shoes

    • Lots of layers

    • Notebook/pen for note-taking

    • A face covering (optional)

  • Although there is street parking available, it can be challenging on weekends. Public transportation is frequent and nearby, so it's a great option! The 6, 36, 43, and 44, bus lines and the N Judah all run within a few blocks of the garden. Forest Hill Station is also nearby and you can take the 43 or 44 directly from there to the garden.

  • We try our best not to cancel, but if the weather forecast suggests it is very likely to be pouring rain or air quality is poor, we will cancel the workshop and notify attendees by 5pm the day before. We do hold classes in drizzling weather, however, so come prepared with rain gear. We are also occasionally forced to cancel workshops due to other unforeseen circumstances. In any case, we will happily register you for another workshop or refund your workshop fee.

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