Garden for the Environment maintains a nationally acclaimed one-acre urban demonstration garden, founded in 1990. The land where the garden is located has not, since the founding of the city of San Francisco, housed a permanent building. The land was originally owned by the Spring Valley Water Company (the parent company of the SF Water Department). The SF Public Utilities Commission owns the land and allows the Garden for the Environment to use the land by a special permit.

Today the site serves as San Francisco's only organically maintained public demonstration garden, focusing on small-scale urban ecological food production, organic gardening, low water-use landscaping and urban compost systems. Garden for the Environment offers free or low-cost public workshops nearly every weekend of the year.

GFE ’s programs include four central educational elements; a three month intensive Gardening and Composting Educator Training program, monthly Compost Education workshops conducted at the garden and community gardens throughout San Francisco, the Resource Efficient Landscape Education series, and the School Education program offered in partnership with San Francisco Unified School District and San Francisco’s Department of the Environment.

The Garden is located at 1600 7th Ave San Francisco, CA 94122

Garden for the Environment
Phone (415) 731-5627
Fax (415) 731-5607
Email: info@gardenfortheenvironment.org