Farm Updates

If you’re curious about honeybees and what it takes to be an urban beekeeper, check out our upcoming workshop on Beginning Urban Beekeeping with local beekeeper Fernando Aguilar.

Farm Friends,

We will hold a plant sale at the farm on Saturday, April 15, 11 am to 2 pm, featuring seasonal plant starts for your home gardens!

More details coming soon.

Dear Farm Friends,

Join Friends of Alemany Farm and the Alemany Apartments Community for the…

Alemany Farm Earth Day on the Green Celebration

Saturday, April 22
11 am to 3 pm
Alemany Farm, 700 Alemany Blvd, SF
FREE

The day will include:

• Potato planting (starting 11 am)
• Farm tour (11:30 am)
• Native plant tour (12:15 pm)
• Medicinal Herb Garden tour (2 pm)
• Mini plant sale and Alemany Farm merch (suggested donation)
• Live music from Tony Saunders and the Noteworthy Band (12 pm)
• DJ
• Catering courtesy of Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center (11:30 am)
• Pig roast, BBQ, farm salad (1 to 2 pm)
• Community group info tables, including SF Beekeepers, SF Master Gardeners, Mission Neighborhood Center, Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, Dreamkeeper, and more
• Face painting for kids
• Games and more activities…

Please Note: Onsite parking will not be available for our Earth Day event. We encourage folks to use public transit or pedal power. If you are driving to the farm, you will need to find parking in the vicinity. For directions and other info on visiting the farm, see our Get Involved page.

Interested in helping out at the event? Send an email to John Stokes.

Friends of Alemany Farm thanks our co-sponsors and event partners:

Alemany Resident Management Corp
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
Bridge Housing
SF Recreation & Parks
San Francisco Landscapes
In-kind donor: World Centric

Friends of Alemany Farm is a sponsored project of Earth Island Institute.

We hope to see you on April 22!

Dear Farm Friends, please note that due to expected inclement weather, we will not hold a community workday this Saturday afternoon. Thanks for your understanding. Visit our Get Involved page for links to sign up for future workdays!

Dear Farm Friends, please note that due to expected inclement weather, we will not hold a community workday this Saturday afternoon. Thanks for your understanding.

Dear Farm Friends,

Help seed new growth for 2023! If you are able, consider a donation to Friends of Alemany Farm via our fiscal sponsor, Earth Island Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Learn more on our Donate page. You can also check out our year-end appeal email.

Join Friends of Alemany Farm and the Alemany Apartments Community for …

Alemany Farm’s 17th Annual Harvest Festival

Saturday, October 22
11 am to 3 pm
Alemany Farm, 700 Alemany Blvd, SF
FREE

>> Bring a mask; mask wearing encouraged when in close contact with others.

The day will include:

• Garlic planting
• Farm tours
• Plant sale
• Pickling station (bring your own jar, if possible)
• Fruit and vegetable games
• Activities for kids
• Live music from Tony Saunders and the Noteworthy Band (Noon – 1 pm)
• Food trucks courtesy of Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
• Pig roast, BBQ, farm salad (1 to 2 pm)
• DJ and more….

Please Note: Onsite parking will not be available for our Harvest Festival event. We encourage folks to use public transit or pedal power. If you are driving to the farm, you will need to find parking in the vicinity. For directions and other info on visiting the farm, see our Get Involved page.

Interested in volunteering for the event? We could use some extra hands with a variety of activities and areas. Contact us at community.gardeners@gmail.com for more info and to sign up for a shift!

Friends of Alemany Farm thanks our co-sponsors and event partners:

Alemany Resident Management Corp
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
SF Recreation & Parks
San Francisco Landscapes
World Centric

We hope to see you on October 22!

Dear Farm Friends,

Please note we will not have a Saturday or Monday workday over the Labor Day weekend. Our next workdays will be next Saturday, September 10 and Monday, September 12. Please register in advance. Wishing you a pleasant weekend!

Dear Farm Friends,

The Alemany Farm dye garden is in beautiful bloom with many many butterflies and other pollinators visiting the flowering coreopsis, marigold, flax, weld, and sunflowers.

Please come help expand the plantable area around the dye garden in August, help keep the weeds at bay, and learn about how the cultivated plants grow and what colors they yield. You will also participate in harvesting roots and flowers.

• Friday, August 12, 11:30 am – 3 pm
• Friday, August 19, 11:30 am – 3 pm
• Friday, August 26, 11:30 am – 3 pm

Bring a sun hat and wear layers. Please have a mask with you, as we are still asking people to wear them when working closely with others. You may want to bring some snacks for yourself and definitely have a water bottle! We will have gloves and all of the tools you’ll need on site.

Friday is a produce harvest day at the farm, so there will be some food to take with you at the end of the afternoon together.

Workdays will be led by LisaRuth Elliott, steward of the dye garden. Please let LisaRuth know by emailing lisaruth [dot] elliott [at] gmail [dot] com if you can join her for one or more of these dye garden work days. We’d love to have you.

Dear Farm Friends,

You are invited to Alemany Farm for some special Dye Garden Workdays this month of May as we further develop the garden:

• Friday, May 6, 11 am – 3 pm
• Friday, May 13, 11 am – 3 pm
• Friday, May 20, 11 am – 3 pm
• Friday, May 27, 11 am – 3 pm

Workdays will be led by LisaRuth Elliott, steward of the dye garden. Join her to work on clearing weeds, creating pathways, developing previously unplanted areas, and preparing for planting in the coming weeks. Then toward the end of the month we will be putting coreopsis, indigo, hopi sunflowers, weld, tansy, and flax in the ground and laying irrigation for these beds. The woad plants are in full bloom and the madder plants are very pert right now.

Bring a sun hat and wear layers. Please have a mask with you, as we are still asking people to wear them when working closely with others. You may want to bring some snacks for yourself and definitely have a water bottle! We will have gloves and all of the tools you’ll need on site.

Please let LisaRuth know by emailing lisaruth [dot] elliott [at] gmail [dot] com if you can join her for one or more of these Dye Garden work days. We’d love to have you.