Category: SF OMI/Excelsior

Our summer interns are chronicling their activities. Check out their first issue of The Green Gazette! Follow them as they kick off their program, get to know their educators, and more.

San Francisco California Natural Resources Administration (CNRA): Seneca Avenue Ecological Transformation Project This project creates a series of rain gardens, lateral planting areas, natural micro-bio swales, and native habitats, We are planting 160 trees and 2000 understory plants. All trees, shrubs and plants are native and appropriate for site specific microclimates-…

Have a look at a map of the Islais Creek Watershed, the largest in San Francisco, that interconnects at least 11 communities in South East and South West San Francisco:  Noe Valley, Mission, Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill, Bayview, Portola, Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, OMI, Sunnyside, Glen Park. The Islais Creek provides multiple…

The OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park serves children and youth from PreK through 12th grade at San Miguel Child Development Center, James Denman Middle School, Balboa High School, and Leadership High School, and operates Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The unique, place-based, ecological learning program has linked the environmental and cultural lives of…