Community Gardens in SF & Feedback please!

Hi!

Here’s the walk calendar!

We have been walking our groups for almost 3 months now! I would love some feedback from everyone (regardless of whether or not you’ve joined). I’ve created this anonymous form, so please be as candid as you can!

Featured Members!

Sanae from Civic Center

Sanae and I have been on a couple of different walks together and each time I learn something new. On the last walk I did with her, she showed us the plot she takes care of at the Fort Mason Community Garden. The waitlist for a plot there is years or even decades! How did she get the plot you might ask? She shared the secret with us, but I think you should ask her when you see her 😉.

She taught us about Magwarts and how the Sierra Club has specifically flown out to New York City to help get rid of it from Riverside Park. Magwarts are an invasive non-native plant that was introduced by Chinese immigrants along with burdock, goji berries (a superfood!), and porcelain berries. I eat burdock and goji berries all the time! Traveling with the Sierra Club is a great deal apparently if you want to travel on a budget.

We also had a very enlightening conversation about working within the oil and gas industry in the Middle East and Africa. Wow. 

Wayne from Chinatown

Wayne isn’t in one of the groups, but he’s a doctor who I’ve been talking to about our walking groups. He mentioned that I should reach out to a Stanford Professor, BJ Fogg, regarding behavior change. He said that a big park of what we’re doing is not just creating habits for ourselves, but helping others in our groups create habits for themselves. I thought it was poignant and I thought it was worth sharing that everyone walking and continuing to walk with us is a part of that.

Then last night I met Mark who has been working with Senior Centers around the bay area promoting the learnings from BJ Fogg’s book, Tiny Habits. Well if any of you know me, if I hear about it twice in one week. I’m going to look it up! So I just bought the book and started reading it. I’m going to try this little habit in the first chapter which is first thing in the morning, just say “Today is going to be a great day”.

Feel free to read along (they also have the audiobook). Should we do a little book club?