Links
Local Government Agencies
- SF DPW Urban Forestry for planting and removal permits for sidewalk trees and sidewalk landscaping permits. Understaffed due to low funding, please be patient! They are good people.
- SF Dept of Environment - coordinates various environmental programs put on by the city.
- SF Recreation and Parks Dept - for trees in parks and in sidewalks adjacent to parks
Non-profits
- California Native Plant Society — learn about plants from right here
- California Rare Fruit Growers — learn about fruit trees and grafting
- Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy — help restore coastal habitat
- Literacy for Environmental Justice — Environmental education and empowerment for youth
- Mission Creek Bikeway and Greenbelt — help create a greenbelt where Mission Creek used to flow
- Neighborhood Parks Council - a coalition of community based groups actively improving neighborhod parks
- Parks Trust — enhance and protect your local park
- Plant SF - they can help you with the process of creating a sidewalk garden
- Quesada Gardens - building "community," connecting across our differences, and strengthening local systems in the Bayview Hunters Point Neighborhood of San Francisco through strategies that have emerged from the grassroots: community and backyard gardens, public art projects, events, and more.
- Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens — learn about plants from all over the world.
Education
- City College Environmental Horticulture Department Click on Departments, then choose Environmental Horticulture from list
- Merritt College Landscape Horticulture Department
- Foothill College Ornamental Horticulture Department
- UC Davis Center for Urban Forestry Research
- SF Professional Gardeners Association - has monthly educational workshops
