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 planting seeds,empowering youth
Summer 2011 NewsletterHAPPY SUMMER!
CommunityGrows is an environmental education program serving high-needs youth, especially those living in public housing in San Francisco.Youth acquire the necessary skills to live a healthy lifethrough garden education, nutritious cooking and eating, and green jobs training.
• The BEETS Summer Program• Rosa Parks Rebuild Together• Koshland Park Workdays• Summer Programs inKoshland Park• Seed-to-Mouth CookingClasses Heat Up• Westside Courts Gardens• CommunityGrows is Growing• Map of CommunityGrowsPrograms• Fall Garden Party Invite• Recipe for Great Salad Dressing• Site Visits by Funders• Donate to CommunityGrows
In This Issue:
On uesday, June 14, 2011 our new BEES (Bando Environmentally Educated and Employableeens) Program cycle began with eight new re-cruits. All youth rom 15-19 years o age live inor have connections to the Western Addition o San Francisco. Te summer cycle o this group o BEES will end August 11, 2011.
Meet our BEETS(Band of EnvironmentallyEducated and Employable Teens)
Te BEES Program is an environmental educa-tion and green jobs stipend training program o CommunityGrows, serving 18-24 at-risk teens ayear, in three cycles. Te all cycle will begin inSeptember or 8 more teens. Applications will beavailable aer August 15th.Te BEES program supports youth to: acquire acore set o job readiness skills or the work orce,specically the green economy; cultivate leader-ship and interpersonal skills; and develop a com-mitment to environmental stewardship and ood justice.—continued back pageTe BEES meet every uesday and Tursday aernoons, and each has a individual schedule
BEES siing compost in Koshland Park 
 
Welcome to our Summer BEETS!
(Band of Environmentally Educatedand Employable Teens)
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July-2011-CG Newsletter
Quincy SmithAnija GainoPhaness DuckworthEzekiel McCartererrie KendrixDaRell BakerLyric LewisGenesis ValentineEzekiel McCarter with Melinda Stone, Co-Director o the USF Garden ProjectLearning about plantsin the Koshland GardenHelping out at HaywardRec CenterGardenBEES at the USF Garden Projecterrie and Phaness
 
Rebuilding Together with CommunityGrowsand Rosa Parks Elementary School
On Saturday April 30, 2011 Com-munityGrows worked with RosaParks Elementary School and PA,and Rebuilding ogether to trans-orm two huge garden spaces onthe school property. Nora Brereton,Programs Manager supervisedother crew members to move as-phalt, soil, debris, and plants. Over60 volunteers came to spend theday rom 8:30 AM til 4:00 PM. Itwas a sunny cool day–just perector working outdoors. Te gardenshave enhanced the already amazingschool, and we were proud to be apart o it!Barb Fujimoto, Rosa ParksParent and CommunityGrowsBoard Member with PaulJacobsen, PrincipalLora Hirschberg, Rosa ParksParent and CommunityGrowsBoard Memberravis Jackson, Kristina Lacayo,and Jason Boarde
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