Archive for the ‘Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park’ Category

Jul '11

Upcoming Rotary Club Event with Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park on August 13

YOU ARE INVITED !!

Please join the San Francisco Rotary Club, A Living Library, and PTA parents and children

Junipero Serra Child Development Center, 155 Appleton, SF 94110                         Saturday, August 13, 9-1:30

We will be planting a new Fruit Orchard and Native Learning Zone with a variety of California Native Trees.

Come and also enjoy a potluck !

View Rotary Club website and click on Event Calendar at top and scroll to August 13:             Bernal Heights Living Library

Jul '11

Even A Few More Photos of Tree Planting From Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park Nature Walk

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We have so many great pictures of volunteers planting California Native Trees adding to the Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park Nature Walk underway in San Francisco, leading to the Islais Creek at the south end of St. Mary's Park. 

Eventually, we envision linking more schools, parks, and other open spaces within the Islais Creek Watershed, the largest in SF, that interconnects at least 11 communities from: Noe Valley, Mission, Bernal, Potrero, Bayview, Portola, Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, OMI, Sunnyside, Glen Park.

Below are a few more pics showing diverse areas of St. Mary's Park in South Bernal Heights !

Planting Native Oaks (Quercus agrifolia - Coast Live Oak) in 2010 on the Upper Ridge of St. Mary's and (Quercus spp. - Mixed Oaks ) on Path from Crescent Avenue leading to south side of Park and currently hidden, underground Islais Creek.

Jun '11

Children’s Pictures & Writing From Bernal Heights Branch Living Library & Think Park Sites

Makayla For your enjoyment, please view a few photos and their descriptions, made by children participating this Spring in the Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park sites at Junipero Serra Elementary School and Junipero Serra Child Development Center. We hope you like them !  The children wrote the captions for their photographs below: Natalie-Lava-1 Natalie-Lava-2

We put garlic and potatoes from the garden in our soup. We cut them really small. It tasted good! By: Natalie Lava

Makayla

My favorite thing I did in the garden was watch the butterflies and the bees pollinate the flowers. And after fruit will grow! By: Makayla

Owen

I liked making the soup because we got to pick Dinosaur kale By: Owen

Isaiah

I like to hunt for snails so they don’t mess up our garden.By: Isaiah

Victoria-and-Paola

Our favorite thing to do in the garden is hanging bird food. By: Victoria and Paola

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I like sucking the nectar out of the yellow flowers like the bees and the butterflies. By: Paola and Samantha

Melany

My favorite thing to do in the garden is watering. By: Melany

Aneesah

I like the flowers because they give us seeds. By: Aneesah

Johanna-Paniagua-Romero

I like to plant seeds and water plants because the roots get thirsty. By: Johanna Paniagua Romero

  Oscar

I love picking vegetables from the garden. By: Oscar

Kayla

We like to pull weeds because we like our garden healthy, nice, and full of pretty well grown flowers. Dandylions and grass are the most common weeds in the Junipero Serra garden. By: Kayla and Jesse

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We love to pull weed and eat apples in the garden. By: Sophia, Esmeralda, and Jessica

May '11

From Weeds to Wonder: Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park Garden is Transformed !

Weeds Are Big !

Our Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park

Upper Garden at Junipero Serra Child Development Center has been transformed from Weeds to Wonder !  After major building construction at the site our original beautiful garden was devastated. But, now, thanks to great help from students, parents & teams from Salesforce, this garden is being transformed! In April, a team led by Lisa Jack with students led by A.L.L. instructors, laid out the new circulation system and pulled weeds ! And, then, they pulled more weeds; this went on for hours. And, then yesterday, May 18, another Salesforce Team, led by Charmagne Peters, along with Junipero Serra Elementary PTA parents, our A.L.L. Instructors, and many students moved 3 tons of Napa Fieldstone and 13 cubic yards of rich compost, compliments of LYNGSO, and made beautiful new garden beds, based on the Master Plan I developed  ! We moved 3 tons of rocks !! We are ready to plant now !  Thank you everyone !!! May 20, 2011 Blog Post
May '11

View this video on A Living Library produced by NEN TV !

Have a look at this video on A Living Library & Life Frames, Inc. produced by NEN TV.  Although it was originally created in 2008, the ideas are still current, fresh and relevant.

A Living Library on NEN TV

Let me know your thoughts !!!

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