Project milestones, updates, and important announcements

Updates (in chronological order from the most current)

2025 events:

Oct 25 - community planting day of 500+ native plants from the Xerces Society Native Plant Grant

Jun 7 - community gardening day, habitat workshop

May 2 - gardening day with Lick Wilmerding High School

Apr 19 - regenerative gardening booth + art workshop at the Earth Day Stroll 

Feb 22 - community gardening day + learn how to build a habitat structure 

2024 events:

Nov 13 - pruning day with volunteers

Jun 29 - community gardening day with pruning demonstration by Jocelyn Cohen

May 11 - ribbon ceremony

Apr 1 - the mural was defaced again!  

Feb 10 - community gardening day

Feb 5 - the mural was defaced by vandals!  Police report has been filed

Jan 18 - mural installation

2023 events:

Oct to Nov - funding on hold while CCG hires new director

Sept 19 - garden installation by Rock and Rose Landscapes completed

Aug 12  - community gardening day

July 7 - mural greenlit by DPW thanks to widespread support

June 19 - garden installation by Rock and Rose Landscaping begins

June 8 - community outreach and facilitated meeting to discuss new mural by Amos Goldbaum

Apr 10 - garden design draft

Mar 10 - winter pruning

Jan 2 - Rock and Rose will be leading the garden design at the VGW

2022 events:

Dec 15 - Rock and Rose has started preparing a base map of a design 

Nov 29 - we've raised $1784 on Giving Tuesday!

Nov 7 - SF Arts Commission has approved the mural by Amos Goldbaum

Oct 29 - gardening day (10am-12pm)

Oct 2 - project meeting (1-2pm)

Aug 20 - listening session (10-11am) and gardening with volunteers (11-1pm)

Aug 17 - pruning day

July 1- CCG contract starts today!

June 11 - our first official advisory committee meeting

May 14 - grant celebration day  (cake and coffee donated by LIttle Bee and Progressive Grounds)

April 23 - gardening day, spring edition

2021 events:

Dec 3- CCG submitted on time!

Nov 13 - community meeting to discuss grant budget items

Oct 30 - our first community gardening day

Aug 31 - the seeds have been planted: The Virginia Garden Walk Greening Project