Yerba Buena Chapter of the California Native Plant Society

11/22/2025

03/07/2025

🌱Join us for Wednesday Workparties at three tantalizing locations this month—just in time to see some early spring blooms!

🗓️Check calendar in bio for meetup locations and full deets.

02/21/2025

Join us in the Bernal Cut for a weeding, planting and pruning work day on the Cross Town Trail!

We’ll meet up on the 300 Block of Mateo at the Path. Tools, gloves, coffee and lunch will be provided.

See you on the Cut!

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02/21/2025

Sunday, March 2, 10:15-3:15 Choose Your Own Adventure: Saving the Imperiled Green Hairstreak Butterfly in San Francisco - Free (registration required: limit 25)
 
Come join in on a native plant propagation workday at the Nature in the City nursery in San Francisco, followed by a casual bring-your-own picnic lunch and then a walking tour of parts of the Green Hairstreak Butterfly Habitat Corridor.
 
To register for this event, join the Native Plant Resource Teams—it’s free to join the Teams, and free to attend events. After you have joined, check the calendar (which shows event details to members) to sign up for this workshop. (Note, when joining the Native Plant Resource Teams, to keep your emails to a minimum, select the Digest.)

Cheers to all helping to save this beautiful native species!

02/13/2025

🌱Another terrific collab going strong! CNPS-YB-donated plants are in the ground at Commodore Sloat School, thanks to the intrepid 💚Raphael Hitzke, Climate Corps Education Outside Fellow.💚

Raphael planted toyon, coffee berry, and redstem dogwood, safely surrounded by gopher baskets.

Meanwhile, the 💫fourth-graders💫planted yarrow, bee plant, phacelia, and gum plant, all nestled happily among other native ribes currant, sages, and California buckwheat. 🪶Birds and 🦋 are going to feast magnificently this spring!

Stay tuned for more pics of our fabulous collabs throughout San Francisco!

02/10/2025

Yes, it’s (still) 🌱planting🌱 time! Come get your native plants and lots of great entertainment to boot—at this 🗓️ Sunday 2/15. Live 🎶 bands from 2:00-9:00 at the New Farm (adjacent to HH).

🎉 Stock up for spring and help celebrate Elliot’s (HH’s founder) birthday! 🎉

02/04/2025

❤️Wet enough for ya? This spring’s plant babies are getting a really good drink. We’re still going strong on Wednesdays, laying down mulch, planting (yes, still!) and clearing away invasive and non-native plants so our native species can thrive when the sun comes out again.

🌱 This month, we’ll be at Mt. Davidson, Bernal Heights, Glen Canyon, and McLaren Park on Wednesdays with our knowledgeable and amazing Natural Areas Specialist friends at . Gloves and tools provided, as well as water and a tasty snack!

🗓 Full details and maps can be found on our handy calendar (link in bio). Come out and enjoy gorgeous views, delightful company, and joy in helping care for our precious natural areas!

01/14/2025

🎉It’s an amazing and long-awaited day! President Biden will be signing the proclamation establishing Chuckwalla National Monument and Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, after years of hard work by advocates and activists including CNPS statewide and local chapters.

🔗Here’s the link to the livestream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNPUrvK9fXg

Or search YouTube for “President Biden Delivers Remarks Celebrating the Administration’s Historic Conservation Legacy”.

❤️❤️ Enjoy this long-awaited and hard-win moment for native species conservation! ❤️❤️

               

01/07/2025

❤️Happy beginning of 2025! We’re still going strong on Wednesdays, laying down mulch, planting, and clearing away invasive and non-native plants so our native species can burst forth in the spring.

🌱 This month, we’ll be at McLaren Park, Mt. Davidson, and Rocky Outcrop on Wednesdays with our knowledgeable and amazing Natural Areas Specialist friends at . Gloves and tools provided, as well as water and a tasty snack!

🗓 Full details and maps can be found on our handy calendar (link in bio). Come out and enjoy gorgeous views, delightful company, and joy in helping care for our precious natural areas!

01/07/2025

💦Please help us welcome Erica Gies, author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge!

Floods and droughts are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, often prompting calls for higher levees, bigger drains, and longer aqueducts. However, this engineered infrastructure—an worsen water-related disasters. 

The Slow Water movement takes a different approach, asking: What does water want? Inspired by natural systems—geology, microbes, beavers, ancient cultures, and modern science—practitioners collaborate with nature to make space for water within human habitats, fostering resilience.

🗓️This is an online-only event; please check our bio for the Zoom link (reservations required).

12/19/2024

Many thanks to the twelve intrepid volunteers who joined the oxalis-pulling festivities in the Sunset Biodiversity Corridor last Saturday! If you know, you know: oxalis is a monster—a beautiful one, but a menace to nearly everything else. Gratitude to all who showed up for helping native species survive and thrive!

                               

12/02/2024

It’s raining! No, it’s not! Yes, it is! Welcome to December in the Bay Area. We’re still going strong on Wednesdays and weekends, laying down mulch, planting, and clearing away invasive and non-native plants so our native species can burst forth in the spring.

This month, we’ll be at McClaren Park and Mt. Davidson on Wednesdays with our knowledgeable and amazing Natural Areas Specialist friends at . Gloves and tools provided, as well as water and a tasty snack!

On the weekends, we’ll be at four amazing locations: Lakeview Ashton Mini Park, Alemany Farm, the Sunset Biodiversity Corridor, and the Vermont Eco Patch — so many ways to be a part of greening San Francisco and restoring habitat for native flora and fauna.

Full details and maps can be found on our handy calendar (link in bio). Come out and enjoy gorgeous views, delightful company, and joy in helping care for our precious natural areas!