WORKSHOPS
ECOSF offers experiential learning opportunities in a variety of capacities in the community. We teach ecological gardening practices and concepts at Garden Party events for residents or school gardens. We also go into the classroom and bring the students out to sow seeds, transplant seedlings, and harvest their own nutritious, organic food to share and enrich their body and mind. Here are some photos from recent workshops:
(L) Showing root hairs on a Rainbow Chard seedling to 2nd graders at Jefferson Elementary School. (R) Digging a hole to plant Mustard Greens.
Jefferson students watering their plants and a pineapple guava tree together.
(L) Harvesting some lettuce for a salad. (R) Harvesting for a Farmer’s Market.
(L) Harvesting pansies, an edible flower, for the salad. (R) Students holding up some tasty Bok Choy and Tatsoi.
(L) The school garden fresh salad, with 3 kinds of lettuce and a variety of edible flowers. (R) A nutritious and educational snack for some kindergarteners.
(L) Harvesting some more Asian greens for the market. (R) Jefferson’s first Harvest Market, the principal examining some lettuce!
The following photos are from our on-going Cob Bench building project at Jefferson Elementary School. If you’d like to get involved, please email us at info@eco-sf.org. Thank you!
(L) First day of progress on the cob bench. We used chunks of urbanite, broken up pavement, as a foundation. (R) The subsoil we got from the leftover infill dug out for a foundation of the new swimming pool on 19th avenue had lots of rocks of different sizes in it, so we sifted it to get the good sticky clay separated from the rocks and gravel.
(L & R) Some of our clay got a little muddy with the rain so we had to sift it with our hands, but I don’t think these students minded getting a little dirty.
(L) Sam is teaching these 4th and 5th graders how to stomp the clay, coarse sand, and straw together to make a good cob mix. (R) This student is carefully crafting a cob, or ball of clay.
The pictures below are from a recent Permaculture workshop and sidewalk planting with volunteers on Judah St. between 44th and 45th avenue.
(L) Showing some Chinese herbs to plant in the Sunset district. (R) Planting with volunteers. (Photos by Ray Trautman)
(L-R) Volunteers planting natives on the sidewalk. (Photos by Ray Trautman)
(L-R) More volunteer planting on Judah. (Photos by Ray Trautman)
(L) California Mid-montane plant community. ( R) California Riparian plant community with Elderberry, Wild Grape, and Mugwort.
(L-R) Who says you can’t get 8-foot lattice home from Discount Builder’s Supply in a Prius?