San Francisco, California
Backyard Nursery Network
Our Backyard Nursery Network is made up of residents growing native plants in backyards all over San Francisco. You can participate, too! Help grow plants in your backyard that will provide a haven for pollinators, butterflies, birds, and insects. When your plants are strong enough, we transplant them to habitat restoration sites throughout San Francisco!
Please reach us at amelia@natureinthecity.org with the subject line "Backyard Nursery Network" if you are interested in growing plants in your backyard for our ecological restoration projects.
Project Details
What is the Backyard Nursery Network?
As an experienced or new gardener, you can help us collect seeds and plant, water, and nurture native plants until they reach maturity. At that time, you can join one of our planting workdays and help plant them at Adah’s Stairway, the Green Hairstreak Corridor, Palou Phelps, or another habitat haven. Or, you can deliver them back to White Crane Springs Community Garden, where monthly volunteer workdays are held on the first Sunday of every month from 10 a.m. to noon.
Join us, and learn how to harvest native seeds and cuttings and propagate thousands of plants for local habitat projects!
Where can Backyard Nursery Network be located?
Wherever City residents have a backyard! Our current gardeners live in the Inner Sunset, Buena Vista, and Richmond districts.
Why is the Backyard Nursery Network important?
Native plants, such as coast buckwheat, seaside daisy, and deerweed provide fast-disappearing habitat for our local species. Growing these plants from native seed ensures the survival of endangered plants and our local butterflies, bees, birds, and other wildlife.
How can I take part?
There are many ways that you can support wildlife at home. Join our Backyard Nursery Network as a volunteer.
Other ways to help:
Preserve the amphibian population by building a backyard Sierran Tree Frog pond in your backyard.
Build your mini bird sanctuary with a fountain/bird bath surrounded by berry-rich, blossoming shrubs.
Encourage pollinators to stay local by planting wild flowering plants and leaving patches of loose, bare soil to feed and house new generations.
Learn how to propagate native plant species through protocols from the Native Plant Network.
Please reach us at amelia@natureinthecity.org with the subject line "Backyard Nursery Network" if you are interested in growing plants in your backyard for our ecological restoration projects.
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Any backyard can be part of our backyard nursery network.