This will be an intimate gathering of about 30 people on the farm, with a multi-course dinner cooked by chefs Ivan Jurado and Gabi Espinosa from LihoLiho Yacht Club and Cafe Diablito, plus a farm tour and an optional farm harvest before we sit down to eat. It’s the only evening of the year we invite our farm community to join us for a truly farm-to-table dinner.
As the largest urban farm in San Francisco, Alemany Farm is one of the city’s greatest treasures. Funds raised at this dinner go directly toward keeping vital farm programs running and growing year-round: from training the next generation of urban farmers from historically underserved communities, to providing fresh, nutritious, and free produce to neighbors and anchoring a remarkable community in southeast San Francisco.
We hope you’ll join us for a memorable evening in support of our work.
Check out the farm workshops we have coming up in March and April on a wide range of topics: intro to organic gardening, beekeeping, understanding weeds, and more. Find info on the workshops page.
Pig roast, BBQ, farm salad, and more good food (Noon-ish & 1 pm-ish)
Farm merch & mini plant sale
Live screen printing (bring your own item to screen print, if you like)
Community groups
…and more
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!
Please Note: There will only be very limited parking onsite at the farm. If you are driving to the farm, you should expect to park in the surrounding vicinity. We encourage folks to use public transit or pedal power. For directions and other info on visiting the farm, see our Get Involved page.
Join Friends of Alemany Farm and the Alemany Apartments Community for …
Alemany Farm’s 20th Annual Harvest Festival
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Saturday, October 25 11 am to 3 pm Alemany Farm, 700 Alemany Blvd, SF FREE
The day will include:
Garlic planting
Farm tours
Face painting
Pumpkin decorating
Other family-friendly activities
DJ
Pig roast, BBQ, farm salad, and more good food (Noon-ish & 1 pm-ish)
Farm merch
Community groups (SF Beekeepers Association, Master Food Preservers, Urban Sprouts, Tree Frog Treks, plus others)
…and more
Please Note: There will only be very limited parking onsite at the farm. If you are driving to the farm, you should expect to park in the surrounding vicinity. We encourage folks to use public transit or pedal power. 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!
Check out our upcoming workshop on Sunday, June 22: herbalist Tessa Kappe will explore herbal allies for stress management. Learn more on our workshops page!
Pig roast, BBQ, farm salad, and more good food (Noon-ish & 1 pm-ish)
Farm merch & mini plant sale
Community groups
…and more
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!
Please Note: There will only be very limited parking onsite at the farm. If you are driving to the farm, you should expect to park in the surrounding vicinity. We encourage folks to use public transit or pedal power. For directions and other info on visiting the farm, see our Get Involved page.
Alemany Natives/Nursery Deep Medicine Circle Duo Pizzicato Mission Neighborhood Center Patagonia Provisions San Francisco Beekeepers Association Tree Frog Treks
For this giving season, we have set a $50K fundraising goal. To date, we’ve raised over $35K! By making a gift, you can help us meet or surpass our goal, and keep the farm resilient for the coming year. Learn more on our Donate page, or check out our most recent email appeal.
As we close out the year and enter the giving season, we want to let some folks in the farm community share with you, in their own words, what they think makes the farm special and how it has impacted their lives.
At left: Tati among fava bean plants in the farm’s keyhole raised bed. At right: Tati (right) with her kids (and blue sky and rays of sunshine). (Photos courtesy of Tati.)
Tati
she/her Hometown: San Francisco
Tati is an alum of our paid apprenticeship program, and is currently a farm assistant. She’s been involved with the farm for almost three years. Since the summer she has been serving as a weekend community workday coordinator, where she helps members of the public experience the farm and pitch in with our work. If you’ve volunteered in recent months, perhaps you’ve already met Tati!
How has your experience at the farm affected your life? Working and learning in Alemany Farm has changed my life for the best – I’ve learned how to eat healthier, I’m learning all about vegetables that I didn’t know about. I am able to keep learning and working hard in the farm to provide for my children, to eat healthy with my children and more – I am grateful and thankful for that.
Why is it important that places like Alemany Farm exist? It’s important because we can keep feeding the people who can’t afford or don’t have the money to buy food especially in hard times. Alemany Farm helps teach the people about food justice and more, and helps people like me to keep working and learning to provide for my children, to provide for myself, to help myself to be healthier with my family.
Why should people support Friends of Alemany Farm? Because it will help generations and generations to learn about food justice, farming, eating healthier for their good health and we can keep feeding generations and generations.
Do you have a favorite farm plant, vegetable, fruit, or creature, and why? Yes, my favorite farm plant is pericón (Mexican mint marigold) – it smells amazing, it’s a medicinal plant, and is beautiful. My favorite vegetable is arugula, it tastes strong but good and it’s good for your health. My favorite creatures are butterflies because they’re beautiful like us human beings.
Do you have a favorite farm chore, task, or responsibility? My favorite responsibility is to be a farm assistant because I am able to do a lot of things on the farm, and learn to do more. My favorite task is learning to be a harvest manager because you get to harvest all the vegetables with the farm team and you get to feed the people.
What is one of your favorite things about Alemany Farm? I love that Alemany farm provides free food to the Alemany community and others outside of the community. I love how Alemany farm is always open to teach people all about farming and food growing. I love to see people come to Alemany farm to volunteer, to learn and to experience the farm.
This giving season, make a gift to support our hardworking farm staff all they do to keep the farm work going!
