Mark your calendars for this year’s Noe Valley Garden Tour, which is on Saturday, May 17th. Featured gardens will showcase a variety of styles. You may visit a mature, lush oasis at a wonderful B & B, a front terraced garden with roses, bamboo, ferns, and Japanese Maples, a serene Zen space for meditation, an intimate […]
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Autumn blooms on the Greenway
Come to the Greenway Native Meadow (between Brompton and Lippard Avenues) and see how many of these flowering plants you can find. The winter rains helped create a profusion of blooms. But hurry!
Noe Valley Garden Tour–Saturday, May 6
You will be amazed at what the massive winter rains have done for gardens this year! Mark your calendar for this year’s Noe Valley Garden Tour, which is on Saturday, May 6, from 10am to 4pm. Come and be inspired! See 9 gardens bursting with greenery and color. Ticket prices are $20 for adults and […]
Glen Park Gets Greener
Glen Park is about to get greener, thanks to a grant that will buy 30 California native trees, 50 drought-resistant shrubs and numerous native grasses to beautify a stretch of land running between Arlington Street and San Jose Avenue. The pedestrian portion of the land is known as the Arlington Path, which runs parallel to […]
Celebration 2/26 – Arlington Path/Bernal Cut Path
It’s time to celebrate! Join us in recognizing the amazing work of our city partners, our art partners, our gardeners and our refuse reclaimers who are turning the two sides of San Jose Avenue into a clean greenbelt. When: Saturday February 26, 2022 1-2pm Where: Richland Ave Bridge @ the Bernal Cut Path (across […]
FUF Zoom 12/7
FUF COMING TO DISTRICT 8 FOR SIDEWALK GARDENS + EXPANDED TREE BASINS Friends of the Urban Forest has confirmed a Zoom meeting on Tuesday December 7, 6:30-7:30pm to answer your questions about adding a sidewalk garden. If you haven’t already, sign up here or email your information. (FUF will send the Zoom link) There are […]
Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project Volunteer Workday Saturday, November 13th, 9-12 noon
Please join us for even an hour or two! The plants on the median island are happy with the recent rains. The rains have also encouraged weeds to again thrive. Your help is needed to get a handle on the weeds before they get out of hand. Our approach is to keep the block in […]
Glen Park Canyon Rec Center to begin incremental reopening September 7
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to sound alarm bells, Recreation and Park administrators are cautiously returning to some semblance of normal indoor programming and outdoor habitat restoration at Glen Canyon Park. On September 7, the Glen Canyon Recreation Center and other City recreation centers will be opening for fall programming. Glen Canyon Recreation Center will […]
DIGGING THE DIRT – Gardening the Soil in a Season of Drought
In early June, Pam Peirce and I sat under a cherry tree in my wildly blooming garden and discussed life and plants. Pam*, noted author and columnist, is now preparing the fourth edition of Golden Gate Gardening, writing gardening columns for the Chronicle, and embarking on a biography of one of her interesting Indiana relatives. […]
Glen Park was so fascinating these intrepid walkers came back for a second look. Follow along on their rambles.
Glen Park warranted a second look. On May 21, eight women from the First Friday Walkers assembled at Café XO on Church Street. “We used to say ‘No repeat tours,’ but that we might repeat a walk one of these days,” long-time FFW Chris Greene told the Glen Park News. Back in 2017 they had […]
Quick-acting neighbors save chickens, bees after vandalism at SOTA farm
Vandals destroyed a chicken coop atop Diamond Heights at the ECOSF student farm by the School of the Arts and smashed an adjacent beehive earlier this month. The eight fowl —seven hens and one bantam rooster named Diego — would almost certainly have become dinner for local wildlife if not for the quick action of […]
Bernal Cut Survey
The Bernal Cut is a unique dividing line between Bernal Heights and Glen Park. Once a single-track railway line, today’s Cut is San Jose Avenue, a large crevasse both real and figurative. In an effort to connect the two sides of the Cut, the Bernal Cut Restoration Project is bringing art, safety measures and neighbors […]
Two months in: Reminiscing about Glen Park during the lock down
Two months ago, on March 17, San Francisco went on lockdown when the City ordered residents to shelter in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. Long-time Glen Park News writer Murray Schneider spent some time over the past few weeks using the time to revisit sites he’s written about over the past decade. There’s […]
Stop and smell the wildflowers of Malta — Malta and O’Shaughnessy, that is
The next time you catch the 44 O’Shaughnessy — which is one of only 16 buses still operating in San Francisco during the coronavirus crisis — at Malta Drive you might want to stop and smell the flowers along the way. Denise Louie — who resides only a hop-skip-and-a-jump from the boulevard that serpentines from […]
Greenway Update Winter 2020
We had a very productive and entertaining morning at the last Greenway work day. The weather turned out to be ideal for us. Many thanks to the wonderfully enthusiastic gardeners who were able to join us. A special shout out to Canyon Market for providing such delicious coffee to get us started in the morning. […]
Glen Park Association spring meeting wrap-up
The quarterly meeting took place in the Recreation Center on April 25. Update on crime and other matters in Glen Park Captain Hart had just come from a fire safety meeting in Diamond Heights and had some helpful information to share. There are two separate access points to Glen Canyon Park. The official address is […]
Wilder Street Garden: A Growing Idea
On the short and narrow, yet very busy thoroughfare that is Wilder Street, sits a sad, empty patch of ground. It’s BART property and is fenced off to protect an auxiliary building for BART which sits on the site. For years, neighbors have bemoaned its ugliness, and several of them try to at least keep […]
Eco Fair at Denman Middle School March 16
2019 Annual Arbor Day Eco Fair Saturday, March 16, 2019 | 9 am to noon James Denman Middle School, 241 Oneida Avenue, San Francisco FREE Activities Include: Build A Planter Box For Fresh Herbs Pet Goats Get Your Face Painted Ride In A Bucket Truck During the annual Arbor Day celebration, the focus will be […]
Keeping Islais creek running with pickaxes and loppers
Photos: Christopher Campbell Islais Creek is the second longest creek running through San Francisco. Because of drought, it has recently trickled rather than raced. The creek is also inhibited because along its banks invasive Cape ivy and Himalayan blackberry mitigate its flow. Consequently, any dash through Glen Canyon Park on the waterway’s journey to […]
Next Greenway work party coming soon!
Hello friends and supporters of the Glen Park Greenway, Our next work party will be on Saturday February 16! I hope that you’ll be able to join us. We’ll start at 9:00 – there’ll be coffee waiting for you Meet at the top of the Chilton Ave cul-de-sac beside 88 Chilton Ave. We’ll stop at […]
Got a lemon tree? It’s quarantined now. Yellow Dragon Disease has arrived in San Francisco
An innocuous insect that carries a devastating disease which has destroyed citrus groves in Africa and South America has arrived in San Francisco. The Asian citrus psyllid has been found in the Marina district and the California Department of Food and Agriculture is making anyone with citrus trees on their property to avoid moving fruit and […]
Glen Canyon gardener’s landscape show through Jan. 27
Christopher Campbell pulls weeds and paints willows. An early member of San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Natural Resources Division, Campbell, 55, has been familiar with Glen Canyon for 20 years, removing geriatric eucalyptus and colonizing Himalayan blackberry and replacing them with habitat-friendly dogwood, elderberry and sticky monkey flower. And for the last six years, influenced […]
Ring out 2018 and start 2019 with events in our neighborhoods
Thanks to Sally Ross, Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory, for keeping us up to speed on so many wonderful happenings. For half a day, help keep Sunnyside Conservatory beautiful– Saturday, 10/13, 9 a.m. to Noon The Christopher Playground group has invited us to come to their playground for a hot dog after working in the Conservatory. […]
DHB Median Clean-Up Sept. 8
Forwarded from Paul Matalucci: Hello friends and supporters of the Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project, You may have heard about Love our City! a City-wide clean up event focused on sweeping sidewalks and picking up trash (including median curbs and drains). To capitalize on their momentum and additional volunteers, we’re moving our next volunteer work day from this Saturday, […]
Join the Greening of Glen Park
The Glen Park Greenway needs more volunteer waterers. Would you join us? The Greenway is an undeveloped public open space that many of us use as a green and pleasant way to walk between Glen Park village and Glen Canyon Park. Last December we planted about fifty trees along the Greenway and this month we […]
Notes on the Quarterly Glen Park Association Meeting, July 26, 2018
DIAMOND/BOSWORTH INTERSECTION UPDATE First up was Britt Tanner, senior engineer with the Sustainable Streets program of SFMTA. She came to speak about the recent Diamond and Bosworth signal update. “I’m going to try and stay clear of history,” she said lightheartedly – and preemptively. Changes to the troubled intersection began in 2015 and are focused […]
Workshop at Arlington Community Garden
Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop at the Arlington Community Garden on June 23 Join us for our our Summer Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop at the Arlington Community Garden (Arlington Street and Highland Avenue) from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday, June 23! Come learn about keeping your fruit trees in top form for the summer! To RSVP […]
Tiny Sunnyside Park Named One of SF’s Hidden Gems
The Joost and Baden Street Mini Park has been hailed as one of the City’s loveliest spots by Curbed SF. It’s #17 on the list. Here’s the link: https://sf.curbed.com/maps/gardens-green-spaces-secret-parks-hidden-sf-map
Glen Park Greenway Cleanup!
Save the date! Our next Greenway clean-up will be held Saturday, May 12, from 9 a.m. to noon. Meet us at the end of the Chilton cul-de-sac. We’ll have coffee beforehand and lunch sandwiches afterward. What will we do? This time around, we’ll focus on weeding around the new trees and acorn shoots, and devote […]