Project milestones, updates, and important announcements
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