We grow 24,000 pounds of produce annually at SF's largest urban agriculture site, Alemany Farm. Please support the farm by donating if you can.
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Please be advised that we are currently *not* hosting volunteer workdays due to the city-wide shelter-in-place order. https://secure.sfparksalliance.org/give/304005/ #!/donation/checkout
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn about the basics of pickle making and tips you need to know to make sure your pickles are safe, crunchy, and delicious. We’ll cover both vinegar, or “quick” pickles and fermented pickles. At this workshop, you’ll make your own jar of quick carrot pickles and fermented cucumber dills to take home for fermenting and enjoying on your own.
Please sign up in advance on our website 🥒
Instructor: Mei Ling Hui
Join us for Flowers On The Farm: Botanical Bouquets workshop on Sunday May 12, 1030am - 1230pm.
Please join us for our annual festival Saturday April 27, 11am-3pm.
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Join us for an early spring bird walk! We will spend a couple hours wandering around the farm identifying and discussin the birds found there. In addition to bird "watching" we will spend some time talking about the intersection of birds and other organisms including humans, pollination, seed dispersal, conservation, introduced species, taxonomy, birding resources etc. Your guide will be J.R. Blair, who is a dear friend to the farm thats been an active birder since the 1980s! So come and learn this skill that'll have your eyes to the sky and bushes.
Register using our link in bio.
Community! We are now accepting applications for our summer/fall apprenticeship! During your time at Alemany, not only will you learn how to grow food, but also gain leadership skills, build community and further your knowledge of food justice! If you or someone you know is 18+, passionate about food justice, interested in working with people of all ages, backgrounds and experiences, please apply! Applications due 6/1/23! Screenshot and scan for link or copy and paste link available below. Strong applicants will have connections to and experience with historically underrepresented communities.
DM us with any questions 🌱
little gems of the farm :)
we planted these with the hopes for a few good sized radishes, but ended up with so many beautiful different colors and sizes! grateful for the magic of the soil ✨
tomatillos with a side of yarrow! these plants will aid eachother as they grow together! aphids love tomatillos and many things in the nightshade family and yarrow makes a lovely resting nook for hungry ladybugs looking for their next snack, aphids being one of their favorite ones. just another symbiotic relationship we steward here on the farm
friends!!! please come joins us in celebrating the Earth 🌎this Saturday, April 22nd! We'll be here 11-3 with live music, delicious food, face painting and potato planting🥔! come on by with your community to enjoy some fun in the san francisco sun!!
community come join us for our annual spring plant sale! we'll have varieties of tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and mixed greens & more! it'll be donation based, pay what you can, no one turned away due to lack of funds! come have fun in the sun :)
appreciating these lovely land loving stewards who continue to inspire and educate as we tend to the land for years to come
crop rotation talks with our apprentices under the willow lead by assistant farm managers nick and thomas ✨✨
crop rotation is the practice of growing specific groups of plants on different parts of growing spaces to optimize nutrients, soil structure and prevents build up of disease/pests.
our fava beans are a great example, this plant relative is in the legume family, which form a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria to leave lil nitrogen filled nodules to fuel our heavy feeding crops like broccoli, corn, eggplants, squash and tomatoes!
we love being able to work alongside our plant relatives to continue growing food regeneratively
our greenhouse, where all the magic starts!! we're still in leafy greens season 🥬🥬but we're slowly shifting into getting ready to sow our summer crops 🌶️🍅🎃!!! all of our crops at Alemany are sown on site by our apprentices, allowing the unique opportunity to see plants from seed to harvest and develop greenhouse management skills. if you like what we do please consider donating your time on our work days or if you have the means, donating to continue funding projects like this :) link in bio!!! (big shoutout to John Stokes who installed the irrigation system that allows our plants to grow big and strong u til theyre ready to move to the lath house
Up for a round of guess that green? Comment your guesses then swipe for answers on second slide! (Hint: 6 is tricky!! its a mix of two greens)
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Every Friday our team harvests fresh, organic, locally grown crops to send over to our friends at who distribute locally grown food at Parque Ninos Unidos on Sundays at 1! To support us in continuing to do the good work we do please considering donating at the link in bio or volunteering!
So much network building on the farm this weekend! We’ve got a Fungi on the Farm workshop, a Tree Pruning Workshop, a school group, AND our regular volunteer day coming up. Building, growing, learning always.
So much gratitude to the volunteers, paid folks, staff at other orgs, plants, mycillia, and everyone who make this all happen.
Head to the link in bio for more info on workshops and volunteer sign ups ✨🍄
*NEW DATE, February 11th*
We moved this event because of forecasted rain. Unlike most of our farm days, this workshop requires no rain. If there are additional updates, we will announce them here.
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Come out to the farm for a Winter Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop this weekend!
Saturday, February 4, 2023, 10 am – 12 pm at Alemany Farm
Instructors: Hannah Shulman and Nick Hoff
Come learn all about the basics of when, why, and how to winter prune apples and plums at Alemany Farm. This class will focus on the basics of tree biology and care to encourage a healthy and productive fruit tree. You will get hands-on practice with our trees in the field.
Hannah Shulman is a program manager at The 11th Hour Project / Schmidt Family Foundation, where she oversees grant making that enables access and opportunity for youth to thrive through nature. Previously, Hannah led community organizing, land use and youth engagement work in the Bay Area. She holds a bachelor’s from Haverford College and studied at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at University of California, Santa Cruz and has over ten years of experience pruning fruit trees.
Nick Hoff has been pruning fruit trees in Alemany’s orchards for years and is currently a member of Friends of Alemany Farm.
Suggested Donation: $25, no one turned away for lack of funds
Sign up via the QR code or through the link in our bio, click "Register for Workshops & Events"
Volunteer workday goodness from
Harvested Saturday: lettuce, mixing, fava tops, collards, rainbow chard 🌈
Thank you to the earth and our community for days like this 🫶🏼🌱
The gifts of the earth, stewarded and selected by
Come out and volunteer with us Mondays and Saturday’s from 1-4 to connect and gather. See you there 🌱
Hello friends, we are back from a winter solstice break to let you know that tomorrow, Saturday January 7th, there will be NO volunteer day at Alemany as the site is closed from the storm.
Our apprentices and on site team have been holding it down and the crops are looking good but please take this weekend to rest and reconnect elsewhere. We look forward to welcoming you back to the site as soon as we are able 🙏
One week out from Giving Tuesday and we are feeling so grateful for our community!
Ok it’s a made up holiday, but y’all came through and together we raised almost $7,000 🫶🫶 This will go toward staff time, seed orders, curriculum development, and our intern and apprentice programs.
If you haven’t gotten around to donating, there is still time! Head to the link in bio to get your donation in before the end of the year, it really helps us out.
Whether you donated this time around or not, we hope to see y’all on the farm soon 👋🌱 The support of our community means the world to us, we wouldn’t be here without it 💚
Today is Giving Tuesday! If you have not done so already, consider donating to Alemany Farm.
Your gift will support:
* Growing, harvesting, and distributing fresh produce for free in SF year-round
* Internship programs and paid apprenticeship focused on our nearest neighbors, BIPOC community members, low income folks, and youth
* Community workdays and farm visits open to all
* Local, grassroots action and resilience
Donation link in bio. If a donation is outside your capacity right now, that’s fine too. You can support us by sharing our work, sharing this post, showing up at the farm, and connecting with the place you live.
Wishing you and yours only the best 💚
Moments with our beloved friends and relatives this fall 😌
Join our movement. Alemany hosts thousands of volunteer hours each year. Friends from all walks of life visit the farm to steward the land, grow local produce, and uplift our communities together.
Your donation supports green collar urban ag jobs for on-site staff who make volunteer days possible!
This season, you can join us by:
Donating! Link is in the usual spot 🔗
Sharing this post 🤝
Visiting the farm 🌱
Telling your friends and family about our work 🗣
Hi everyone! Our farm team has been diligently saving seeds this season. Pictured are seeds saved from “Nick’s Yellow,” a varietal we have been saving at the Alemany farm site for years named after one of our longest serving volunteers. Here is the tomato seed saving process so far.
The quick instructions are as follows:
1. Separate seeds into jar with water. 2. Let seeds sit in jar for 4-7 days, until “jelly” surrounding seeds has separated, some mold may form on surface of water.
3. Carefully remove seeds from jar, I used a tight-meshed spaghetti stainer(not pictured) and rinse any remaining jelly off.
4. Place on paper towel or napkin in a single layer to dry for 1-2 days and place in a spot out of direct sunlight. 5. Carefully remove seeds from drying plate and put into clear air-tight container (not pictured)
Many thanks to all of the community members who planted, seeded, and loved these tomatoes at every step of their life this season and to Abby, Thomas, and Nick for leading seed saving this winter.
Alemany Farm is a site for community participation and learning. You can get your hands dirty and start sharing and learning skills for sustainable growing the very first time you visit.
Want to join us? Our volunteer days are Mondays and Saturdays from 1-5pm at the farm. Eventbrite sign ups encouraged (check out our bio for the link) 💚
Want even more ways to join us? We rely on donations to keep our educational offerings and produce free! You can donate at the same link in bio or support us I getting this message out to your networks by sharing this post 🤝
Today on the farm: Assistant Farm manager Thomas teaching a soil workshop to farm apprentices.
Soil is:
45% minerals
25% water
25% air
5% organic matter
What is soil to you?
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Often times those of us who live in cities live in such a way that our connection to the earth is not obvious. At Alemany, we aim to provide space that closes gaps between people and the green-and-blue Earth. Urban Farmers living in a world facing climate crisis can’t forget that we are people in an ecosystem experiencing drought. Drought cycles are nothing new to CA. Most of us remember the six year drought in the 2010’s which strained our agricultural landscapes. Many of our elders remember the drought of the 70’s when it was illegal for a restaurant to serve a table water prior to the patron’s request. Again as urban dwellers and food producers it’s tricky walking the line of growing food (25,000 lbs/year) for our local community while also conserving water for daily humxn use of drinking and bathing, and the well-being of creeks, rivers, lakes, wild places, animals and insects. As we turn towards our driest time of the year aptly named “Fire Season” this balance gets even more complex. Fires are a symptom of climate collapse, an example that we can point to and understand on individual and community levels. When we look to our neighboring communities that have burned, to the east, north and south, often it is people’s home gardens, a well irrigated buffer that can help save homes and neighborhoods when this sort of disaster strikes. What does all this have to do with our work at the farm? We live within an interconnected web: everything is everything. And as teachers of responsable stewardship, we offer a few ideas on now to conserve water in times of drought: -Cut back on how much you irrigate your garden. We did! We spoke with our friendly landlords @sfrecpark and agreed to reduce our use by 1/3. -Use efficient irrigation methods! We use drip tape (more efficient than overhead watering from a hose or sprinkler) -Consider timing. We run irrigation first thing in the AM or in the evening to avoid evaporation in the hottest part of the
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