Yes, you are a gardener! Yes, you are an artist!
Celebrate community, creativity, and collective growth with Garden for the Environment.
Garden for the Environment (GFE) is San Francisco’s public teaching garden. From their vibrant half-acre in the Inner Sunset, they teach about the environment — soil, water, plants, creatures, and climate — so together we can grow a resilient, more beautiful world.
On this First Thursday, GFE invites visitors at SFMoMA to:
Learn about urban nature and dig in!
From hands-on compost demos (worms and all!), to ‘Ask a Gardener’ stations, to actionable info about our native ecosystems, this is a night to reap new perspectives on how to support our world, and each other.
Connect with local orgs and get involved!
GFE partners with over 40 Bay Area organizations: city departments, local universities, community gardens and urban forests, neighborhood groups, and more. Meet the folks making it all happen, and find your volunteer niche (or career pivot!).
Draw, write, and create and share your work!
Make yourself comfortable at our communal art table; pick a medium (crayons to collage, pens to pencils); get inspired by the remarkable flora and fauna found in the diverse gardens of San Francisco; and nurture your imagination. Visitors will also be invited to contribute to a communal art project that will be installed at GFE.
About GFE:
Since 1990,Garden for the Environment(GFE) has served as San Francisco’s only public teaching and education garden and dynamiccommunitythird space. Located in the Inner Sunset neighborhood on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone people, this one-half acre garden is now public land managed by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Nearly 3,000 children and adults learn with us annually through twice-weeklyvolunteer days,weekend workshops,school field trips, and our renowned three-month Gardening and Composting Educator training program (Get Up!). GFE is open from dawn to dusk every day of the year. Everyone is welcome to visit and observe our plants, find a seat to enjoy the surroundings, and take our self-guided tour.