Events
Fruit Tree Pruning and Care Seminar
When: January 19, 10am - 11am
Cost: Free
at Wegman's Nursery
Garden for the Environment Workshops
January 2025
Garden for the Environment (GFE) will offer the following workshops and events in December 2024 and January 2025. All will be at Garden for the Environment, San Francisco’s teaching garden, 1590 7th Avenue (at Lawton). Founded in 1990, GFE offers informative, hands-on workshops on most Saturdays that teach Bay Area residents how to grow climate-appropriate gardens and food, make compost, and conserve water. We hope you’ll join us for some of these terrific learning opportunities – we’re excited to have you in the garden! We encourage you to bring a mask to the garden to assist you in navigating your comfort level with the COVID situation.
NOTE: We will have no programming from December 18th, 2024 through January 3rd, 2025. Our first day back in the garden will be Saturday, January 4th. We wish you and your loved ones a peaceful and happy holiday season!
For more information, visit our website at www.gardenfortheenvironment.org.
UPCOMING VOLUNTEER DAYS AND WORKSHOPS:
Educational Volunteer Hours
When: Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10am - 3pm
Cost: Free
Registration required! Register at bit.ly/gfevolunteershifts
Join us in the garden on Wednesdays and Saturdays to help with garden maintenance tasks. You’ll work alongside staff and fellow volunteers on a range of activities like composting, vegetable planting and harvesting, pruning, and weeding. The best way to learn is by doing, and we promise you’ll learn a lot working in the garden with us. Bring lunch and picnic with us at noon!
* Bring your own gardening gloves. See additional requirements on the registration page.
Winter Fruit Tree Pruning
When: Saturday, January 25th, 10 – 12pm
Cost: Reduced: $25; Regular: $37; Full: $50
Register: bit.ly/gfewinterpruning2025
Learn how to maximize tree health and fruit production by identifying and properly removing dead, damaged, and dying wood. Our expert instructors will go over general pruning techniques, discuss the differences between summer and winter pruning, and lead a hands-on demonstration so that you can learn which cuts to make in the winter to keep your trees healthy and productive.
Following the workshop, you can put your newfound skills to use! Feel free to bring a lunch and eat with GFE staff and volunteers, and then at 1pm, join a group of fellow workshop participants and others from the GFE community to prune our orchard trees.
Citrus Tasting Event
Our next Citrus Tasting will be held on February 22, 2025. Stay tuned for more information!
Bee Keeping Class
A few images from our recent Bee Keeping class
Fruit Tree Seminar
A few images from our latest fruit tree seminar
Growing Young Gardeners at Wegman’s
A local Daisy Troop visited Wegman’s Nursery this last Sunday. 15 girls took a tour of the shop, listened to a talk on plants, and potted a painted pot on site. They then went over to the rest home across the street and gifted the pots to the elderly. We loved hosting these young gardeners!
