The Garden Project

The Garden Project Empowering our young adults and community through environmentally based job training, life skills classes and the donation of fresh organic vegetables.

The Garden Project's mission – empowering at risk young adults through environmentally based job training and life skills programming, while transforming the urban environment. The Garden Project oversees an environmentally based work training program for San Francisco residents called The Earth Stewards. The program also includes a special summer program and school year program for San Francisco

high school students. Garden Project Earth Stewards work in an intensive program learning organic horticulture and landscaping skills. The Project donates all food grown by participants to local food pantries. Meanwhile,Earth Stewards work on the streets of San Francisco, in the Crystal Springs Watershed, and at the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, preserve and improve the health of the local ecology. The Garden Project farm at the San Francisco County Jail San Bruno Complex is a resource the City and County of San Francisco. Participants cultivate plants for use on public works projects, and each year, hundreds of young children visit the farm to experience farm-based educational programming. Providing more than just a paycheck, The Garden Project supports participants in continuing their education and offers life skills programming. In the community, the Project supports nutrition education, community clean-up, planting activities and more. Through meetings, fairs, and community projects, The Garden Project works to connect local government with the communities they serve – improving relationships and bringing more citizens into active civic life. The Garden Project pools public and private resources in order to affect real change in San Francisco. Our partnership includes the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, the San Francisco Police Department, and more than twenty-five community organizations.

Welcome 2018 Junior Earth Stewards! San Francisco is our classroom - from visiting Lands End to cyanotype photography a...
06/15/2018

Welcome 2018 Junior Earth Stewards! San Francisco is our classroom - from visiting Lands End to cyanotype photography at the farm, we're looking forward to a great summer.

“For most of them, they’re the only wage-earners in their homes,” said Cathrine Sneed when asked about Garden Project Pr...
05/30/2018

“For most of them, they’re the only wage-earners in their homes,” said Cathrine Sneed when asked about Garden Project Program, The Earth Stewards in “Cultivating the land to turn over a new leaf,” PBS NewsHour

Cathrine Sneed, founder of The Garden Project -- a farm-based education program for ex-offenders and at-risk youth -- says she isn’t teaching gardening so much as teaching people how to work.

05/29/2018

Throwback TUESDAY

"The longest-running job-training program connected with agriculture on city-owned land is the Garden Project at the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno, begun in 1992, which teaches farming and landscaping skills to 200 at-risk youth and ex-offenders each year."- SPUR Report: Public Harvest – Expanding the Use of Public Land for Urban Agriculture in San Francisco, 2012

https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/SPUR_Public_Harvest.pdf

We look forward to having students from Mission Education Project, Inc. back this summer for more cameraless photograph...
04/30/2018

We look forward to having students from Mission Education Project, Inc. back this summer for more cameraless photography workshops.

Thank you Treasure Island Sailing Center for continuing to give Garden Project students a chance you experience sailing....
04/04/2018

Thank you Treasure Island Sailing Center for continuing to give Garden Project students a chance you experience sailing. We're looking forward to seeing you again this summer!

Thank you Boston University Alternative Service Breaks for volunteering with us again this year!
03/13/2018

Thank you Boston University Alternative Service Breaks for volunteering with us again this year!

02/28/2018

Credit: George McCalman ““Food should be a right for all and not a privilege for some.” — Karen Washington ” Fresh food should not be out of reach due to racism. As a physical therapist, lifelong NYC...

The Garden Project attended the Noe Valley Farmers Market last Saturday promoting our work with native and drought toler...
01/29/2018

The Garden Project attended the Noe Valley Farmers Market last Saturday promoting our work with native and drought tolerant plants.

Join us at the Noe Valley Farmers Market this weekend and learn about native plants!
01/26/2018

Join us at the Noe Valley Farmers Market this weekend and learn about native plants!

Thank you for your support in 2017. Seasons Greetings from The Garden Project!
12/19/2017

Thank you for your support in 2017. Seasons Greetings from The Garden Project!

Earth Steward Trainees making progress at Sunset Reservoir
12/01/2017

Earth Steward Trainees making progress at Sunset Reservoir

Today at The Garden Project: fire prevention and vegetable donations
11/29/2017

Today at The Garden Project: fire prevention and vegetable donations

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San Francisco, CA
94124

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Monday 7am - 3pm
Tuesday 7am - 3pm
Wednesday 7am - 3pm
Thursday 7am - 3pm
Friday 7am - 3pm

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+16505888253

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