Meet the Demonstration Gardens

Demonstration Gardens

Demonstration Gardens: Mission

Cultivating community through environmental education.

Demonstration Gardens: Evolution

Rooftop founded ~1985

333 Golden Gate JAN 2009

Summer 2014

Demonstration Gardens: Methods

Permaculture

Public Participation

Citizen Science

Expressive Arts

Service Learning

Methods: Permaculture

Methods: Public Participation

Methods: Citizen Science

Methods: Expressive Arts

Flyaway Productions ThunderPuppets Players

Batala Brasil SF

Methods: Service Learning

Demonstration Gardens: Results

Care of legacy garden

125 participants weekly

All ages & abilities

Intergenerational service

5 years’ community-based programming

Quiet places in the City

Cultivating community

through environmental

education

KinderGardeners & Curiosity Club release butterflies, 2014

Partnerships

Green Tenderloin Coalition - Compass Family

Services - St Francis Living Room - Friends of

Boeddeker Park - Trust for Public Land - SF Rec &

Parks - Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA - Glide - NEXUS

ArtReach - DeMarillac Academy- Tenderloin Nat’l

Forest - Faithful Fools - Institute for Street Level

Learning

Bloom where you are planted

Kasey Asberry [email protected] Sept 2014