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San Francisco’s Policy Thumb Gets Greener By Isabel Wade & Eli Zigas On a spring morning last week, Mayor Ed Lee signed a bill that places San Francisco at the forefront of major cities supporting urban agriculture.  The law, which changes the city’s zoning code, was the culmination of a year of collaboration between the Mayor, Supervisor David Chiu, the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance and supporters from across the city. The [...]

The NEN and AII Release the First Episodes of NENtv’s KIOSK The Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) and the Art Institute of California San Francisco have collaborated through the NEN University Academic Alliance to produce the first two NENtv episodes of “Kiosk”. Kiosk is a 30 minute broadcast quality TV show dedicated to elevating and celebrating the community building work that is happening in the neighborhoods every day. Each episode features [...]

NEN Kiosk: Growing Communities from NENtv on Vimeo. This debut episode of the NEN Kiosk focuses on community gardens. Join NEN’s Daniel Homsey as he talks about this growing trend with Blair Randall of Garden for the Environment, Fran Martin of the Visitacion Valley Greenway and Mei Ling Hui of the SF Department of the Environment. These community leaders join in to share their experiences with community gardens and how [...]

We Are Growing Home from NENtv on Vimeo. “Growing Home”, a new community garden located along Octavia Boulevard in the Hayes Valley neighborhood, is a unique collaboration between a surprising assortment of people. Watch this latest NENtv episode to find out who’s involved. In 2010, NENtv visited Growing Home on the final volunteer work day needed to fully open the garden to discover a rich assortment of views on what [...]

Join NENtv and the students at the Art Institute of California as we explore the exciting work being done at Quesada Gardens. What began as an effort to remove unsightly debris and waste in the neighborhood has steadily evolved into a dynamic social center for members of the Bay View Community to come together. We were fortunate enough to catch up with organizer Jeffry Betcher and co-founder Jeannette Hill as [...]

Happy New Year! We are pleased to announce the second of four Park Town Halls . We invite you to join us on Saturday, January 29, 2011 from 10am to noon atSoMA Gene Friend Recreation Center to share your thoughts and potential solutions with city decision makers regarding your parks! This meeting will be citywide in scope and will help to inform park budget decisions that are on the horizon. [...]

Pennsylvania Garden: The Jewel of Potrero Hill from NENtv on Vimeo. There are no finer examples of one person’s determination transforming an unsightly piece of land into an urban oasis of plants and community than Potrero Hill’s Pennsylvania Garden. In 2008, resident Annie Shaw took a d-shaped piece of land next to the Mariposa Street off ramp on 280 South and began transforming it into a community garden. Soon, the [...]

Ever wondered what you and your neighbors’ gardens would look like without fences between them? When artist Wanda Westberg and her husband moved into their Berkeley home, they set about doing removing fences, working neighbor by neighbor. Wanda explains to NENfm how they did it. Episode Length: 24:55 Download this episode (right click and save) Show Information Guest: Wanda Westberg, artist and North Berkeley resident Host: Adam Greenfield Neighborhood: North [...]

Planning a street garden is something I’ve had a lot of time to think about. Usually I do this as I am moving a plant to a new location, and thinking to myself “If I had planned all this out, I wouldn’t be breaking my back right now…” Pennsylvania Garden had one plant in the beginning – a Princess Plant (Tibouchina urvilleana) planted by our neighbor, Jim. I put other [...]

Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced the winners of the Community Challenge Grant Program (CCG), which provides matching grants to local residents, businesses, non-profits and other community groups to make physical improvements to their neighborhoods. The CCG Program has awarded 28 grants totaling $577,656. The bulk of the CCG awards continue to be for permeable landscaping, public artwork, graffiti/litter abatement, community gardens and gathering spaces, equitably covering all areas of the [...]